Grace Pritchard Burson

Dancing for God

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All Saints’, Dorval Proper 10, Year B July 11, 2021 People are dancing through our scriptures this morning. When his daughter Herodias came in and danced, she pleased Herod and his guests; and the King said to the girl, “Ask me for whatever you wish, and I will give it.” David and all the house of Israel were dancing before… View Post

Not without honour

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All Saints’, Dorval Proper 14, Year B July 4, 2021 The fire in Lytton, BC, on June 30th “Prophets are not without honour, except in their hometown, and among their own kin, and in their own house.”  This Greco-Roman proverb, quoted by Jesus in response to the critics in his own hometown, is a variation on the more straightforward axiom,… View Post

The hemorrhaging woman

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Grace Pritchard Burson The Young Clergy Women Project, Conference 2016 Service of Healing & Communion Tuesday, July 12, 2016 This is a sermon preached at the 2016 conference of what was then called the Young Clergy Women Project (now Young Clergy Women International) in Boston, MA. I would preach it differently now, five years on, with a much improved understanding… View Post

Goliath’s fears

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All Saints’, Dorval Proper 12 (National Indigenous Day of Prayer), Year B June 20, 2021 “Life of David,” The Morgan Leaf of the Winchester Bible, ca. 1150–80.  J. Pierpont Morgan Library, New York (Image from the Metropolitan Museum of Art website) “The Lord will be a refuge for the oppressed, a refuge in time of trouble.” Thus begins our portion… View Post

What is discernment?

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All Saints’, Dorval Proper 11, Year B June 13, 2021 Icon of St. Ignatius of Loyola Last week, speaking about the “sin against the Holy Spirit,” I said this: But the key is discernment. We must never get so comfortable in our certainties that we forget to pay attention to where the Spirit is moving, and that we forget that… View Post