Grace Pritchard Burson

Doing something right, doing something new

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All Saints by the Lake, Dorval Baptism of the Lord, Year A January 11, 2026 The feltboard on Friday This is one of those rare weeks when I tell the same story at Messy Church that I then preach on Sunday. On Friday evening, I used the felt board to tell the story of Jesus’ baptism. The script gives these… View Post

The rest of the story

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All Saints by the Lake, Dorval Christmas II, Year A January 4, 2026   Master of Hoogstraeten, scenes of the infancy of Christ from an altarpiece, c. 1500. Wikimedia Commons. It’s the second Sunday after Christmas, the eleventh day of Christmas. There aren’t always two Sundays in the Christmas season, of course; it’s only twelve days long. And the Canadian… View Post

Caring and truth

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All Saints by the Lake, Dorval Advent III, Year A December 14, 2025 This is not the kind of AI we’re talking about. *** Jesus answered them, “Go and tell John what you hear and see: the blind receive their sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and the poor have good… View Post

A prophet of flame

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All Saints by the Lake, Dorval Advent II, Year A December 7, 2025 The cover art of Leonard Cohen’s The Flame The theme of my preaching this year seems to be “things I never noticed before despite reading the Bible regularly for forty years.” This week, it’s the weirdness of John the Baptist being here at all. Not the weirdness of… View Post

Advent and the big transitions

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All Saints’, Dorval Advent I, Year A November 30, 2025 Late fourteenth-century ivory from the Met, depicting the Nativity and Crucifixion. Noah entered the ark, and they knew nothing until the flood came and swept them all away. If the owner of the house had known in what part of the night the thief was coming, he would have stayed… View Post