Grace Pritchard Burson

A sneak peek of my spring newsletter article

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From Strategic Plan to Congregational Development “Preparing the Ground”: pansy seedlings planted by the Messy Church group in February A small group met twice in January to revise the 2019 Strategic Plan based on the feedback from the congregation in October and November. At the second meeting, it became clear that the format of the 2019 Plan was hindering the… View Post

An invitation to reconciliation

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All Saints by the Lake, Dorval Ash Wednesday, Year A February 22, 2023 Georges de la Tour, “The Penitent Magdalen,” c. 1640. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Are you ready for Lent? Because I’m not. The last three Lents – 2020, 21, and 22 – have been spent under the cloud of COVID-19 and either going into, in, or… View Post

On the mountaintop, and beyond

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All Saints by the Lake, Dorval Last Epiphany, Year A February 19, 2023 Thanks to the Rev’d Terry Hidichuk, Honorary Assistant, for reading this sermon on Sunday when I still had no voice!   In Minneapolis at the Young Clergy Women International conference, 2014. One of the things about being a priest is that you go to a lot of… View Post

Many ways to keep the commandments

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All Saints by the Lake, Dorval Epiphany VI, Year A February 12, 2023 Rembrandt, Moses with the Ten Commandments, 1659 (Gemäldegalerie, Berlin) Boy, are we getting a lot of commandments this week. Deuteronomy shows God presenting the commandments to the people as they prepare to enter the promised land, demanding that they choose whether to follow them and receive a… View Post

The happy medium of salt and light

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All Saints by the Lake, Dorval Epiphany V, Year A February 5, 2023   For if salt has lost its taste, how shall its saltiness be restored? It is no longer good for anything, but is thrown out and trampled underfoot. It doesn’t actually seem to be clear to any commentators on the Bible what this sentence means. Salt is… View Post