Grace Pritchard Burson

Seven kinds of rest for the seventh day

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All Saints, Dorval Lent III, Year B March 7, 2021 Ariel and me, in the summer of 1991, at sailing camp In 2017, taking our sons to SkyZone in Massachusetts One of my oldest friends is a single parent and chemistry teacher in the Boston area. She is chronically stressed about money and also takes her work very seriously, so… View Post

The heavens torn apart

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All Saints, Dorval Lent I, Year B February 21, 2021 In those days Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee and was baptized by John in the Jordan. And just as he was coming up out of the water, he saw the heavens torn apart and the Spirit descending like a dove on him. And a voice came from heaven, “You… View Post

Lenten hope

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All Saints, Dorval Ash Wednesday, Year B February 17, 2021 Socially distanced ashes in my parking lot yesterday morning, with Mal Skinner (right) and her partner, Montreal Dio student Alex Griffin Well, this is the last one. For a year, as we’ve moved through the liturgical calendar in “Coronatide,” I’ve observed and preached about the ways that familiar texts and… View Post

Passing the torch

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All Saints, Dorval Last Epiphany, Year B February 14, 2021 William H. Johnson, “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot,” 1944 Today is the Last Sunday after Epiphany, known informally as “Transfiguration Sunday” because the story of Jesus’ transfiguration on the mountaintop is always the gospel reading for the day.  It is also the day that we’ve chosen this year at All Saints’… View Post

God above, God beside

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All Saints, Dorval Epiphany V, Year B February 7, 2021   Jesus healing Simon’s mother-in-law, manuscript illumination, c. 1020 *** It is [God] who sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers; who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them like a tent to live in; who brings princes to naught, and… View Post