Grace Pritchard Burson

Cracked cisterns, new wineskins, and seats of honour

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All Saints by the Lake, Dorval Proper 22, Year C August 28, 2022 Promotional poster for “Le guide de la famille parfaite” My mother, born at the height of the Baby Boom in 1950, was not raised in the church. Her father was in the US Foreign Service, and his last posting abroad was to London, beginning when my mother… View Post

Report to Parish Meeting, August 28, 2022

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Incumbent’s Report, August 28, 2022 Me at Chocolats Favoris in Lévis, July 9 A great deal has happened since our last Parish Meeting! The month of June began with a bang, with a very full weekend including the last outdoor Messy Church of the spring, a successful Garage Sale, and the celebration of five confirmations and one reception into the… View Post

What kind of fire is God?

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All Saints by the Lake, Dorval Proper 21, Year C August 21, 2022   You have not come to something that can be touched, a blazing fire, and darkness, and gloom, and a tempest, and the sound of a trumpet, and a voice whose words made the hearers beg that not another word be spoken to them. … But you… View Post

BIBLE STUDY – SHOULD WE DO SOMETHING DIFFERENT?

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Before COVID-19, All Saints’ had a weekly Bible study (from September to June) on Wednesdays, with prayers at 10:00 and discussion from 10:30-11:30. We had a steady group of 4-6 “regulars” and sometimes as many as a dozen people attending. This was one activity that did not transition to Zoom during the lockdown. We resumed the Wednesday study hour in… View Post

God amid the overwhelm

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All Saints by the Lake, Dorval Proper 12, Year C June 19, 2022 The chapel foundation after the waterproofing had been completed, post-flood, on Friday! As a preacher going through the lectionary over and over again, one of the ironies you start to notice is that many of the very best stories get told in the summertime, when historically church… View Post