Grace Pritchard Burson

The building, short and long term

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At the Parish Meeting on March 27, the discussion turned again to building questions. I have had further conversations since then with numerous church members and it seems that consensus is emerging that it is time to move forward. It was rightly pointed out that we are scrambling to make a decision about what to do with the stone baptismal… View Post

Emptiness, exaltation

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All Saints’, Dorval Palm Sunday, Year C April 10, 2022 Jesus as the Suffering Servant, by Marcella Paliekara The Lord God has given me the tongue of a teacher, that I may know how to sustain the weary with a word. Morning by morning he wakens – wakens my ear to listen as those who are taught. … I did… View Post

Purple cloth and costly perfume

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All Saints’, Dorval Lent V, Year C April 3, 2022   The Basilica of St. Lydia in Philippi, near the place where she and Paul met A couple of months ago in Wednesday Bible study, I was looking something up in my Bible that had come up in our discussion, and I realized for the first time that we actually… View Post

Report to the Parish Meeting, March 27

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Incumbent’s Report, March 27, 2022 Since our last regular Parish Meeting at the end of January, All Saints’ has returned to in-person worship for the third and – we devoutly hope! – last time. (Please note that anyone who wishes to receive communion while attending church from home, is welcome to stop by during the week and picked up consecrated… View Post

The sparrow has found her a house

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All Saints’, Dorval Lent IV, Year C (Psalm 84 substituted for 32) March 27, 2022 For those of you who can’t see the picture on the screens right now, it shows my colleague Tracy Wells Miller – coincidentally, wearing the same green vestments that we use here – presiding at an outdoor service at the end of January (she lives… View Post