Grace Pritchard Burson

Purple cloth and costly perfume

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All Saints’, Dorval Lent V, Year C April 3, 2022   The Basilica of St. Lydia in Philippi, near the place where she and Paul met A couple of months ago in Wednesday Bible study, I was looking something up in my Bible that had come up in our discussion, and I realized for the first time that we actually… View Post

Report to the Parish Meeting, March 27

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Incumbent’s Report, March 27, 2022 Since our last regular Parish Meeting at the end of January, All Saints’ has returned to in-person worship for the third and – we devoutly hope! – last time. (Please note that anyone who wishes to receive communion while attending church from home, is welcome to stop by during the week and picked up consecrated… View Post

The sparrow has found her a house

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All Saints’, Dorval Lent IV, Year C (Psalm 84 substituted for 32) March 27, 2022 For those of you who can’t see the picture on the screens right now, it shows my colleague Tracy Wells Miller – coincidentally, wearing the same green vestments that we use here – presiding at an outdoor service at the end of January (she lives… View Post

Good fruit on the fig tree

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All Saints’, Dorval Lent III, Year C March 20, 2022 Cooking apples down into baby food at a World Central Kitchen facility in Poland (Steven Givot, Facebook) This is one of those Sundays where you really want to be able to talk back to Jesus and say, “OK, which one is it?” Today’s Gospel reading addresses one of the most… View Post

Fasting to feast

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All Saints’, Dorval Lent I, Year C March 6, 2022 When I was a child, my family gave up sweets and desserts for Lent. Some of my elementary and middle school classmates were very mean to me about this (I vividly recall at least one occasion of having a Snickers bar waved in my face in the lunchroom), but it… View Post