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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...

MIC Newsletter, March 2020

Missoula Interfaith Collaborative newsletter for March 2020 is available here. The newsletter contains information on the following: COVID-19 Impact Bridges and Leaders Housing Advocate Network Family Promise See Them Home Missoula...

Church Closure - A Note from Rev. Terri

A Note from the Rector, Updated 3/16/2020 Dear Members of the Holy Spirit Faith Community, In light of the rapidly changing developments and after conversations with Bishop Marty Stebbins, the staff and the Senior Warden, I have come to the...

Presiding Bishop Curry: Statement on coronavirus

Episcopal Church Presiding Bishop Michael Curry has issued the following statement. You can listen to the statement here. In this time when we are all affected by the coronavirus, whether directly or indirectly, whether physically, biologically...

Preparing for COVID19 - A Note from Rev. Terri

A Note from the Rector, Updated 3/10/2020 Dear Friends, Initial spread of the novel coronavirus, COVID19, to states along the coasts and near Montana make it prudent to prepare in advance for when it arrives in our communities.  Bishop...