Grace Pritchard Burson

Newsletter column for December 2020

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A sneak preview of the newsletter that will come out next week! Anne Simpson, Yvonne Wakeland, and Laura Hill hard at work on Saturday Advent 2020 It’s a new church year, and we pray that this one will be very different from the last one – that this will be the year that we emerge from the pandemic and are… View Post

Yvonne Bayne’s sermon from November 29

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Sunday November 29, 2020 First Sunday of Advent – Sermon May the words of my mouth, and the meditation of our hearts, be acceptable in Thy sight, O Lord our rock and our Redeemer.  Amen Today is the first Sunday of Advent, traditionally regarded as the Sunday of hope and the start of a new liturgical year.  The main theme… View Post

Report to the Parish Meeting, November 22

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Posted somewhat belatedly … October-November has largely been a holding pattern at All Saints’, but as Advent approaches, some glimmers of hope are appearing on the horizon. The province has continued to be in red-alert level lockdown, and as long as that remains the case we will be worshiping on Zoom only. We still do not know when we will… View Post

Judgment from the margins

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All Saints, Dorval Last Sunday after Pentecost (Reign of Christ), Year A November 22, 2020   A week ago, season 4 of “The Crown”, the lavish TV series dramatizing the reign of Queen Elizabeth II, dropped on Netflix.  I haven’t watched it yet – I’m busy catching up on “Snowpiercer”, which is a whole other conversation – but this season… View Post

Peter’s sermon from November 15

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“The Parable of the Talents,” Rembrandt, 1652 Well, when Grace invited me to speak, I ended up choosing today, without realizing that the words “weeping and gnashing of teeth” launch me into my sermon! However, I cannot complain about a ‘tough text’ this week – after all, this is not the only confrontational parable we’ve heard recently! As we have been… View Post