Grace Pritchard Burson

In remembrance of her

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All Saints, Dorval Palm Sunday, Year B March 28, 2021         Lauren Wright Pittman, “Anointed“, 2018. While he was at Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at the table, a woman came with an alabaster jar of very costly ointment of nard, and she broke open the jar and poured the ointment on… View Post

Serpents, hurt, and healing

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All Saints, Dorval Lent IV, Year B March 14, 2021   Contemporary sculpture, “The Serpent Cross” on Mt. Nebo, Israel   Miriam’s Daughter, 1500 BCE It feels like a dead end. We’ve been walking in circles in the wilderness for forty years – for literally my whole life. My uncle Aaron has just died – struck dead by God because… View Post

Holy Week 2021

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My home altar, Holy Week 2020 A year ago, we were making a last-minute pivot to planning Holy Week on Zoom, and wondering whether we would be able to have a big Easter service sometime before Pentecost. And here we are now, planning our second consecutive Holy Week and Easter in lockdown. You have probably heard that in the coming… View Post

Seven kinds of rest for the seventh day

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All Saints, Dorval Lent III, Year B March 7, 2021 Ariel and me, in the summer of 1991, at sailing camp In 2017, taking our sons to SkyZone in Massachusetts One of my oldest friends is a single parent and chemistry teacher in the Boston area. She is chronically stressed about money and also takes her work very seriously, so… View Post

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