Grace Pritchard Burson

An invitation to reconciliation

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All Saints by the Lake, Dorval Ash Wednesday, Year A February 22, 2023 Georges de la Tour, “The Penitent Magdalen,” c. 1640. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Are you ready for Lent? Because I’m not. The last three Lents – 2020, 21, and 22 – have been spent under the cloud of COVID-19 and either going into, in, or… View Post

On the mountaintop, and beyond

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All Saints by the Lake, Dorval Last Epiphany, Year A February 19, 2023 Thanks to the Rev’d Terry Hidichuk, Honorary Assistant, for reading this sermon on Sunday when I still had no voice!   In Minneapolis at the Young Clergy Women International conference, 2014. One of the things about being a priest is that you go to a lot of… View Post

Many ways to keep the commandments

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All Saints by the Lake, Dorval Epiphany VI, Year A February 12, 2023 Rembrandt, Moses with the Ten Commandments, 1659 (Gemäldegalerie, Berlin) Boy, are we getting a lot of commandments this week. Deuteronomy shows God presenting the commandments to the people as they prepare to enter the promised land, demanding that they choose whether to follow them and receive a… View Post

The happy medium of salt and light

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All Saints by the Lake, Dorval Epiphany V, Year A February 5, 2023   For if salt has lost its taste, how shall its saltiness be restored? It is no longer good for anything, but is thrown out and trampled underfoot. It doesn’t actually seem to be clear to any commentators on the Bible what this sentence means. Salt is… View Post

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All Saints by the Lake, Dorval Epiphany IV, Year A January 29, 2023 Mac McKinney (left) and Bibi Bahrami (right) with other members of the Muncie, IN, Islamic Center.   For God’s foolishness is wiser than human wisdom, and God’s weakness is stronger than human strength. Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth.  What does the Lord… View Post

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