Grace Pritchard Burson

Saints and baptism

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All Saints’, Dorval All Saints’ Sunday November 2, 2025 The chancel prepared for the baptism of Kaylie Fishwick, November 6, 2022. This is only the second non-pandemic All Saints’ Sunday since I arrived, that we haven’t had a baptism. After fifteen baptisms in 2024, this year we’re reminding ourselves that as exciting as baptism services are, even more important is… View Post

Kathleen Wortman Dandurand, 1926-2024

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All Saints’, Dorval Kathleen Dandurand October 23, 2025 Kathleen Dandurand was a very humble person. When I first arrived here at All Saints’ by the Lake in 2018, I visited her at her home and we had some nice conversations; then, of course, came the COVID pandemic, and by the time we emerged from that, she was no longer really… View Post

Telling the story

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All Saints’, Dorval Proper 29, Year C October 19, 2025 Tableau from the Beulah Land felt board “Jerusalem” story, which I told before preaching this sermon They told the story to their children, and to their children’s children; they wrote it in a book, and kept it safe, and they read it again and again. Here we are, telling the… View Post

Eating your fill

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All Saints’, Dorval Harvest Thanksgiving, Year C October 12, 2025 Blurry 2006 digital camera photo of me and my fellow travelers in our compartment on the train to Kyiv. What does it mean to “eat your fill”? Twenty years ago, when I was living in Germany, the university chorus that I was a member of did an exchange with our… View Post

Hard, not impossible

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All Saints’, Dorval Proper 27, Year C October 5, 2025 The sign for Clementine’s Peace Rug. I want to tell you a story. It comes from my friend and colleague Andrea Roske-Metcalfe, a brilliant Lutheran pastor, who wrote it three and a half years ago, right after the invasion of Ukraine, as part of her commentary about a teacher strike… View Post