Grace Pritchard Burson

Loving each other and Creation

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All Saints’, Dorval Proper 22, Year B September 1, 2024 “Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away; for now the winter is past, the rain is over and gone. The flowers appear on the earth; the time of singing has come, and the voice of the turtledove is heard in our land.”   This is perhaps the only… View Post

Spirit and flesh

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All Saints’, Dorval Proper 20, Year B August 18, 2024 I am the living bread that came down from heaven. Whoever eats of this bread will live forever, and the bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh. If you noticed that this is the exact same verse with which I began last week’s… View Post

Being the bread of life

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All Saints’, Dorval Proper 19, Year B August 11, 2024 Making hot cross buns at the Holy Week youth retreat. I am the living bread that came down from heaven. Whoever eats of this bread will live forever, and the bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh. Once again, I’m looking back six… View Post

Where sin begins

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All Saints’, Dorval Proper 18, Year B August 4, 2024 Jan Steen, “Bathsheba receiving David’s letter,” c. 1658. Content warning for sexual assault and infant death. Six years ago this weekend, I preached my first sermon at All Saints’ by the Lake (known then as PRAM). Since we use a three-year cycle of Bible readings, the lessons for that Sunday… View Post

Stones and bread

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All Saints’, Dorval Proper 16, Year B July 28, 2024 The worship space at the National Worship Conference. As you probably know, I just came back from three weeks of vacation, and a fourth week in which I attended the National Worship Conference in Regina. The conference was an incredibly rich time; it ran from Thursday to Sunday, and on… View Post