Grace Pritchard Burson

An abundance of fish

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All Saints’, Dorval Epiphany V, Year C February 6, 2022 Mosaic from the house of Aulus Umbricius Scaurus, Pompeii, showing an amphora of garum (fish sauce) *** When they had done this, they caught so many fish that their nets were beginning to break. So they signaled their partners in the other boat to come and help them. And they… View Post

The old and the new

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All Saints’, Dorval Epiphany IV, Year C January 30, 2022 View from the brow of Mt. Kedumim in Nazareth, over Mt. Tabor and the Jezreel valley. From BibleWalks.com. Let’s remember what came right before this Sunday’s Gospel. Then Jesus, filled with the power of the Spirit, returned to Galilee, and a report about him spread through all the surrounding country. He… View Post

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