Grace Pritchard Burson

She comes sailing

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All Saints’, Dorval Trinity, Year B May 30, 2021 Last week, on Pentecost, we celebrated the coming of the Holy Spirit. This week is Trinity Sunday, when we remind ourselves that we worship one God. Someone coming into a church for the first time, with no context, might take a while to figure that out. If you were casually listening… View Post

The peace that passes all understanding

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All Saints’, Dorval Pentecost, Year B May 23, 2021 Every afternoon at Evening Prayer, before we pray the litany, we go around the Zoom room and share our specific prayer concerns. Many of these have to do with people we know and love, but we also frequently lift up situations in the world that are in need of prayer. A… View Post

“What is to prevent me being baptized?”

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All Saints’, Dorval Easter VI, Year B May 9, 2021 The Ethiopian Eunuch figure from the felt board we use for Messy Church If you were here last week, you know that it was one of those “embarrasse de richesse” weeks in the lectionary. The Gospel was the beloved passage about the Vine and the Branches; the Epistle was another… View Post

Vines, hedges … and compost piles

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All Saints’, Dorval Easter V, Year B May 2, 2021 As he was walking through one of the Clwyd fields towards the river, with a high wild hedge on one side of him and the dark ploughed soil on the other, he heard a dull, muffled thudding somewhere ahead. Then suddenly at a curve in the field he saw the… View Post