News Updates

A Note from the Rector, July 2020

A Note from the Rector July 2020 Dear Friends, My thanks to all of you who participated in our recent survey considering options about possible reopening of Holy Spirit buildings.  (I say the buildings because all of us, wherever we may...

Diocese of Montana Newsletter, July 2020

Got the Summertime Pandemic Blues  There is an old rock n roll song from Eddie Cochran that was released in July of 1958, “Summertime Blues”.  Basically, the song is a lament of a young man who is encountering adulthood in...

Diocese of Montana Newsletter, June 2020

Society's Sins  I am bereft, not just for my own grief, nor just for those who have died or been crippled by this pandemic, but for seeing a man beg for his life and then slowly die at the hand of one who had pledged to serve and...

MIC Newsletter, May 2020

Missoula Interfaith Collaborative newsletter for May 2020 is available here. The newsletter contains information on the following: Missoula Gives MIC COVID-19 Response and Fundraising Campaign MIC Program Updates Broad-Based Community...

Diocese of Montana Newsletter, May 2020

The Common Cup: Problems and Promises At the Eucharist, we break bread to share with one another and offer blessed and consecrated wine in a common chalice. The use of a common cup, a cup or chalice shared by all those gathered, comes from...

A Note from the Rector - April 27, 2020

Greetings friends,  Governor Bullock has announced the initial easing of stay at home policies to allow a few more businesses to begin opening for business in one form or another.  Churches were included in Phase 1 openings with...

Diocese of Montana Newsletter, April 2020

The hand of the Lord came upon me, and he brought me out by the spirit of the Lord and set me down in the middle of a valley; it was full of bones.   He led me all around them; there were very many lying in the valley, and they were...

Presiding Bishop Michael Curry's Word to the Church: On Our Theology of Worship

[March 31, 2020] A word to the Church regarding the theology of worship during the COVID-19 pandemic from the Presiding Bishop of The Episcopal Church:     March 31, 2020 John Donne, Priest, 1631   Dear Friends in Christ Jesus...

A Note from the Rector - March 25, 2020

Dear Friends, This is Wednesday, March 25th, and the spread of the novel coronavirus is continuing worldwide.  While our physical church building is closed for a time, know that we are mobilizing all our gifts for ministry and various...

A Reflection from Lindsay Iudicello

Dear Friends- I have disinfected my keyboard, sent my children outside with tennis rackets, and closed the office door in order to avoid a view of the piles of games, puzzles, markers and bottles of hand sanitizer accumulating on the kitchen...