Grace Pritchard Burson

Where sin begins

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All Saints’, Dorval Proper 18, Year B August 4, 2024 Jan Steen, “Bathsheba receiving David’s letter,” c. 1658. Content warning for sexual assault and infant death. Six years ago this weekend, I preached my first sermon at All Saints’ by the Lake (known then as PRAM). Since we use a three-year cycle of Bible readings, the lessons for that Sunday… View Post

Stones and bread

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All Saints’, Dorval Proper 16, Year B July 28, 2024 The worship space at the National Worship Conference. As you probably know, I just came back from three weeks of vacation, and a fourth week in which I attended the National Worship Conference in Regina. The conference was an incredibly rich time; it ran from Thursday to Sunday, and on… View Post

The kingdom of God is a vegetable

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All Saints’, Dorval Proper 11, Year B June 16, 2024 (I have been known to say that if you have gardening, music, and childbirth, you have all the metaphors you need for any imaginable situation. This sermon will use two of the three, including childbirth, so if topics around birth and babies are painful for you, this is your advance… View Post

The weight of glory

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All Saints’, Dorval Proper 10, Year B June 9, 2024 Illustration by Pauline Baynes, 1956 [A note regarding the day’s Gospel reading: if you’re alarmed by the idea of an unforgiveable “sin against the Holy Spirit,” here’s my sermon from three years ago dealing with that text.] So we do not lose heart. Even though our outer nature is wasting… View Post

Go ask a kid

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All Saints’, Dorval Proper 9, Year B June 2, 2024 (Prompt to kids: write or draw the most important rule for keeping people safe.) Today is “Say Yes! to Kids” Sunday, a day to highlight an initiative of the Anglican Foundation that involves congregations and dioceses in fundraising for ministries that help children, both within and outside parish walls. I… View Post