Grace Pritchard Burson

Kinds of belonging

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All Saints’, Dorval Proper 27, Year A October 4, 2020 James Tissot, “The Ark of the Covenant Crosses the Jordan”   Beloved, I do not consider that I have made it my own; but this one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of… View Post

Pandemic virtues

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A medieval illumination of the Four Cardinal Virtues Yesterday, as I was writing up the announcement that we are re-suspending in-person worship for a period of four weeks, I found myself typing the words, “The people of All Saints’ have been a shining example of fortitude and patience for the past six months.” The phrasing sounded familiar, and I soon… View Post

Good news in the vineyard

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All Saints’, Dorval Proper 25, Year A September 20, 2020 The Parable of the Vineyard is one of those stories that’s a touchpoint for me; it keeps coming up in different contexts, and has become central to how I think about God. A retelling and reinterpretation of this parable is a key portion of the medieval poem on which I… View Post

Between the Red Sea and the Promised Land

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All Saints’, Dorval Proper 24, Year A September 13, 2020   The welcoming committee on Sunday morning!   When Israel came out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of strange speech … Is there any more succinct way of describing the experience of coming home? Both our first reading and our Psalm today describe the Exodus, that… View Post

Is now the time?

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All Saints’, Dorval Proper 23, Year A September 6, 2020   I have a friend and colleague who serves a church in Nashville, Tennessee, where on March 3 of this year, there was a tornado.  That was a huge crisis for her congregation, as one might expect – and then ten days later, more or less, the world basically shut… View Post