Grace Pritchard Burson

The Many Dimensions of Lent

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All Saints, Dorval Ash Wednesday, Year B February 14, 2024 Are you ready for Lent? I’m not. I feel like it was Christmas the day before yesterday, and we’ve barely had winter this year, and now here we are once again hearing about plagues of locusts and putting ashes on our foreheads while reading a gospel that explicitly tells us… View Post

Having, and being, an Elijah

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All Saints, Dorval Last Epiphany, Year B February 11, 2024 Who is your Elijah? We all have forebears in our faith and calling. Perhaps a grandparent faithfully brought you to Sunday School when you were little, or perhaps an older, experienced coworker took you under their wing early in your career and taught you how to do the work you… View Post

These things to these people

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All Saints, Dorval Epiphany V, Year B February 4, 2024 The 2013 PSU production of “Les Misérables”. Enjolras at centre. For an obligation is laid on me, and woe to me if I do not proclaim the gospel! Saint Paul was the greatest apostle and evangelist of all time; it is barely an exaggeration to say that without him, we… View Post

All about Jonah

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All Saints, Dorval III Epiphany, Year B January 21, 2024 Who doesn’t know the story of Jonah and the whale? Along with Noah and the Ark, it’s one of the Bible stories we most like to illustrate and present to children – apparently there’s something about stories involving God, boats, storms, and animals. The idea of a human being swallowed… View Post

(At least) three kinds of knowledge

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All Saints, Dorval II Epiphany, Year B January 14, 2024 John Singleton Copley, “Samuel Relating to Eli the Judgments of God upon Eli’s House,” 1780. I confess:  Whenever this set of lessons comes around in our three-year lectionary cycle, I am less than thrilled to see the lesson from I Corinthians. The passages from Samuel and John are so rich… View Post