Grace Pritchard Burson

The heavens torn apart

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All Saints, Dorval Lent I, Year B February 21, 2021 In those days Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee and was baptized by John in the Jordan. And just as he was coming up out of the water, he saw the heavens torn apart and the Spirit descending like a dove on him. And a voice came from heaven, “You… View Post

Lenten hope

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All Saints, Dorval Ash Wednesday, Year B February 17, 2021 Socially distanced ashes in my parking lot yesterday morning, with Mal Skinner (right) and her partner, Montreal Dio student Alex Griffin Well, this is the last one. For a year, as we’ve moved through the liturgical calendar in “Coronatide,” I’ve observed and preached about the ways that familiar texts and… View Post

Passing the torch

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All Saints, Dorval Last Epiphany, Year B February 14, 2021 William H. Johnson, “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot,” 1944 Today is the Last Sunday after Epiphany, known informally as “Transfiguration Sunday” because the story of Jesus’ transfiguration on the mountaintop is always the gospel reading for the day.  It is also the day that we’ve chosen this year at All Saints’… View Post

God above, God beside

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All Saints, Dorval Epiphany V, Year B February 7, 2021   Jesus healing Simon’s mother-in-law, manuscript illumination, c. 1020 *** It is [God] who sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers; who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them like a tent to live in; who brings princes to naught, and… View Post

The Biden administration and childcare, or, representation matters

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This is an elaboration on a recent Facebook post, expanded and put here at the request of others. Joe Biden being sworn in to the US Senate next to 4-year-old Beau’s hospital bed, Jan. 5, 1973 Most people have no idea that in 1972, the United States came within a hair’s breadth of establishing a universal public childcare system. The… View Post