Grace Pritchard Burson

I guess this is the new normal

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  On Tuesday, the Executive Archdeacon circulated a notice to the parish clergy in response to the government’s announcement that the indoor mask mandate would end as of Saturday, May 14. From that point on, there will be no formal restrictions from either government or diocese as to how we conduct our worship services and other aspects of parish life;… View Post

(Belated) Report to the Parish Meeting, May 1

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Incumbent’s Report, May 1, 2022 Carrying the cross at the children’s Holy Week event Between late March and May 1, much of the energy at All Saints by the Lake was focused on pulling off our first in-person Holy Week and Easter since 2019. We had services at the church on Palm Sunday, Maundy Thursday, Good Friday (twice!), Holy Saturday,… View Post

Family feuds

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All Saints’, Dorval Easter V, Year C May 8, 2022 Mosaic of Mary, Mother of the Good Shepherd (Order of Sisters of Jesus the Good Shepherd, “Pastorelle”) The Gospel of John is, among other things, the record of a family feud. Written at least a couple of generations after Jesus died on the cross and rose from the dead, it… View Post

Chelsford Lewis, 1944-2022

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All Saints’, Dorval Chelsford Lewis May 7, 2022   Wisdom 3:1-9 I Peter 1:3-9 Mark 16:1-8 This is the manuscript as written; it was somewhat more extensive as preached. In the eyes of the foolish they seem to have died, and their departure was thought to be a disaster, and their going from us to be their destruction; but they… View Post

Reconciliation, then and now

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All Saints’, Dorval Easter III, Year C May 1, 2022 Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby, with leaders on the James Smith Reserve in Saskatchewan, April 30, 2022 The parallels between Saul’s encounter with Jesus on the road to Damascus, and Peter’s conversation with him by the sea of Galilee, are obvious. Both men have done something terrible – one could… View Post