Grace Pritchard Burson

Abiding together

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All Saints’, Dorval Easter V, Year B April 28, 2024   The people of St. Porphyrios’ Orthodox Church in Gaza, working on their palms last week Last week at the “You are Leaven” conference in Mississauga, the story of Philip and the Ethiopian eunuch kept popping up. In the first workshop I attended, on “embodied Bible study,” I found myself… View Post

Change – wonderful and challenging

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All Saints’, Dorval Easter III, Year B April 14, 2024 Approximately one-tenth of the Messy Church crowd from Friday. Today’s reading from Acts is really just the second part of the story. It’s the apostle Peter’s sermon to the crowds that gather at the entrance of the Jerusalem Temple, in the aftermath of Peter’s healing of a man who had… View Post

THE WOUNDED SAVIOUR

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A sermon guest preached by Gretchen Wolff Pritchard, April 7, 2024 (Easter II, Year B) The Pritchard family coming out of church on Easter Sunday, 1983. Today’s story is commonly known as “Doubting Thomas.”  And oh how easily we identify with Thomas.  He missed the party.  He didn’t see the angel at the empty tomb.  He wasn’t there when Jesus… View Post

Fear and faith at the empty tomb

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All Saints’, Dorval Easter Sunday, Year B March 31, 2024 So they went out and fled from the tomb, for terror and amazement had seized them; and they said nothing to anyone, for they were afraid. That’s the end of the Gospel of Mark. Some later manuscripts have a few more verses tacked on, but those are pretty clearly additions… View Post

God’s time

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All Saints’, Dorval Great Vigil of Easter, Year B March 30, 2024 The altar of repose in the chapel, Maundy Thursday 2024 Two nights ago, in the chapel where we began this service, a group of about fifteen youth and young adults from half a dozen parishes on the island of Montreal, along with their many adult supporters, kept watch… View Post