Grace Pritchard Burson

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

Report to the Parish Meeting, June 2, 2024

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Incumbent’s Report, June 2, 2024 Confirmation Class 2024! May has been – thankfully – a bit less jam-packed than March and April, but there’s still plenty going on! I kicked off the month by being present with the Lay Readers’ Association of the Diocese of Montreal at their annual retreat at the Manoir d’Youville in Châteauguay, this time led by… View Post

Walking each other home

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All Saints’, Dorval Pentecost, Year B May 19, 2024 Baptism baby Ben with his friends Sarah and Talia on Sunday! Five years ago on Pentecost, I stood in this pulpit and said: We all know the feeling of hearing, in the midst of a random babble of languages that we understand imperfectly or not at all, a sudden phrase or… View Post

Judas in the in-between time

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All Saints’, Dorval Easter VII, Year B May 12, 2024 The Last Days of Judas Iscariot, Plymouth State University, Plymouth, New Hampshire, March 2013. Photo (and set and lighting design) by Matt Kizer. Then they prayed and said, “Lord, you know everyone’s heart. Show us which one of these two you have chosen to take the place in this ministry… View Post