Grace Pritchard Burson

Report to the Parish Meeting, January 23

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Incumbent’s Report, January 23, 2022 The 2022 Confirmation class! The last two months have included a lot of highs and lows at All Saints’ by the Lake. The second annual Virtual Bazaar was a resounding success, and at the beginning of Advent we re-started weekly morning prayers and Bible study on Wednesdays, offering it in a hybrid format. On December… View Post

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All Saints’, Dorval Epiphany III, Year C January 23, 2022 “For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ.” Our reading this week from the first letter to the Corinthians is the middle portion of one of the best-known and most… View Post

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Morning Prayer: the hows and whys

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At the most recent gathering of the Worship Committee, as we made the decision to return to Morning Prayer for our regular Sunday morning worship service as long as the church is ordered to be closed, there was some discussion of how we landed on the version of Morning Prayer that we have been doing, on and off, since March… View Post

The lost years

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All Saints’, Dorval/St. Mary’s, Kerrisdale Epiphany II, Year C January 16, 2022 Scene from the “Infancy Gospel of Thomas,” Klosterneuburger Evangelienwerk, fol. 28r (Stadtsbibliothek Schaffhausen, Gen. 8) When the wine gave out, the mother of Jesus said to him, ‘They have no wine.’ And Jesus said to her, ‘Woman, what concern is that to you and to me? My hour has… View Post

The communion of the beloved

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All Saints’, Dorval Baptism of the Lord, Year C January 9, 2022 Brian Kershisnik, “Nativity,” 2006 One of the few advantages (for me) of doing church on Zoom from home, rather than as hybrid worship from the church, is that I can see everyone’s faces throughout the service, rather than only at the very end. When I’m in the church… View Post