Grace Pritchard Burson

We have no idea what we’re doing (thank goodness)

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All Saints’, Dorval Proper 20, Year B September 19, 2021 Peter’s commissioning as our pastoral intern on Sunday, Sept. 19 But they did not understand what he was saying and were afraid to ask him. … He sat down, called the twelve, and said to them, “Whoever wants to be first must be last of all and servant of all.”… View Post

Who and why?

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All Saints’, Dorval Proper 19, Year B September 12, 2021 Why are we here? It’s been almost exactly a year and a half since the hammer of lockdown first fell. In all that time, we have not sung together as a congregation, or shared in the bread and wine around the altar. We have done an extraordinary job of sticking… View Post

… in the Coinherence

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All Saints’, Dorval Proper 18, Year B September 5, 2021 “Homeless Jesus,” sculpture by Canadian artist Timothy Schmalz The letter of James is a brief text – five chapters; only four pages in the Bible I have handy as I write – but it packs a big punch. James does not mince words. Protestants have a complicated relationship to this… View Post

Report to the parish meeting, August 29

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Incumbent’s Report, September 1, 2021 It’s symptomatic of where we are right now that I am writing this report two days after the Parish Meeting to which it should have been submitted, because last week just kind of got away from me. After a year and a half of working at a very different rhythm than we were used to,… View Post

The many faces of handwashing

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All Saints’, Dorval Proper 17, Year B August 29, 2021 The lavabo, c. 2021. For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, do not eat unless they thoroughly wash their hands, thus observing the tradition of the elders; and they do not eat anything from the market unless they wash it; and there are also many other traditions that they observe,… View Post