Grace Pritchard Burson

Two Great Commandments

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All Saints by the Lake Proper 30, Year A October 29, 2023 Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one. Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength. This is the first and the great commandment. The second is like it: Love your… View Post

Follow-ups to the October Parish Meeting

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IN GENERAL: it’s clear that by the end of the nearly two-hour meeting, when it was past 1:30 pm and nobody had eaten lunch, that few of us were functioning as our best selves. The Corporation is actively seeking suggestions for how to improve this situation – do we change the usual time? Encourage folks to bring a lunch (which… View Post

Violence at the feast

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All Saints by the Lake Proper 28, Year A October 15, 2023 A room in Al-Ahli Hospital, a ministry of the Episcopal Diocese of Jerusalem, which was bombed on October 15. The king was enraged. He sent his troops, destroyed those murderers, and burned their city. There is a lot of violence in this parable. From the guests torturing and… View Post

Thanksgiving in a time of disaster

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All Saints by the Lake Harvest Thanksgiving, Year A October 8, 2023   It’s been a hot (and then rainy) week, and a bizarre summer, locally and globally. It’s getting harder and harder for anyone to argue that climate change isn’t here right now. It occurred to me recently that I don’t actually talk about environmental issues much from the… View Post

Food and drink for pilgrims

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All Saints’, Dorval Proper 21, Year A October 1, 2023   One of my favourite ways to pray is to sing. It took me a long time to identify some forms of singing as prayer: for a long time I just thought I was a weird person who would have walked down the street chanting Bach chorales if I could… View Post