Grace Pritchard Burson

Abundant life

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All Saints’, Dorval Easter IV, Year A May 3, 2020 The 23rd Psalm is possibly the best-known passage of scripture in the world – certainly in the top three, along with John 3:16 and the Lord’s Prayer. It’s so familiar that we often sing a hymn paraphrase in its place, as we did today, and we have read it in… View Post

Looking down the road

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Andrea Bocelli giving a solo concert in front of Milan Cathedral on Easter Sunday   Dear friends, Here in Quebec, we are starting to hear about the possibility of schools reopening soon, and perhaps the loosening of some of the other restrictions that have been in effect since mid-March. This leads us to wonder when we might be able to… View Post

Jesus is known to us

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All Saints’, Dorval Easter III, Year A April 26, 2020 Then they told what had happened on the road, and how he had been made known to them in the breaking of the bread. On Maundy Thursday, I reflected on the strange experience of celebrating Holy Week without the Eucharist.  And on the third Sunday of Easter, we are once… View Post

A note of thanks

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Preparing for worship via Zoom on Lent III.   Dear friends, Much as I would have preferred a “normal” Holy Week this year, it was nevertheless a great blessing to have all of you accompanying me as we figured out – in record time! – how to transition to online church. And I deeply appreciate how many of you have… View Post

Easter in the grave

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All Saints’, Dorval The Great Vigil of Easter April 11, 2020 In an ordinary year, it’s easy to forget what the church actually is: that we are part, not of just another volunteer organization with a few odd rituals on Sunday morning, or even of a group of people doing our best to find our spiritual centers and lead good… View Post