Grace Pritchard Burson

Family feuds

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All Saints’, Dorval Easter V, Year C May 8, 2022 Mosaic of Mary, Mother of the Good Shepherd (Order of Sisters of Jesus the Good Shepherd, “Pastorelle”) The Gospel of John is, among other things, the record of a family feud. Written at least a couple of generations after Jesus died on the cross and rose from the dead, it… View Post

Chelsford Lewis, 1944-2022

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All Saints’, Dorval Chelsford Lewis May 7, 2022   Wisdom 3:1-9 I Peter 1:3-9 Mark 16:1-8 This is the manuscript as written; it was somewhat more extensive as preached. In the eyes of the foolish they seem to have died, and their departure was thought to be a disaster, and their going from us to be their destruction; but they… View Post

Reconciliation, then and now

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All Saints’, Dorval Easter III, Year C May 1, 2022 Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby, with leaders on the James Smith Reserve in Saskatchewan, April 30, 2022 The parallels between Saul’s encounter with Jesus on the road to Damascus, and Peter’s conversation with him by the sea of Galilee, are obvious. Both men have done something terrible – one could… View Post

The waters of baptism

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All Saints’, Dorval Easter Sunday, Year C April 17, 2022 I spent Holy Week and Easter 2006 in Istanbul. I attended services at Christ Church, the Church of England chaplaincy there, which was built in the 1860s as a memorial to the dead of the Crimean War. On Easter Sunday morning, four people – three adults and an older child,… View Post

Out of the pit

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Icon of the Anastasis (Harrowing of Hell)   All Saints’, Dorval The Great Vigil of Easter, Year C April 16, 2022   What just happened? When the confirmation class got together in mid-March to start thinking about this service, we read all six of the stories and prophecies that we heard tonight, sitting downstairs in the dark with our candles…. View Post