Welcome to Holy Trinity Church! Holy Trinity is a small parish, located in Troy, Montana right on US Highway 2 at the corner of Third Street and Missoula Avenue. Here you'll find a lovely 'Carpenter Gothic' church with red doors and a garden out front, between the Sanctuary and parish hall doors. See the "About" page for worship times and dates. The Episcopal Church welcomes you!
Today's Psalm uses the word "Selah." Apparently, no one really knows what it means, but by the best guess, it means to pause and praise, to give value. This is apparently one of the root words in Hebrew (and it’s not like there are a lot – 323 at last count) that scholars disagree about. However, it being in the Psalms 71 times and in Habakkuk 3 times, means that it is something relatively important.
So then the question becomes, when you’re reading those passages in the Bible and you come to the word “Selah”, do you actually say Selah, or should you say something in praise of what you have just heard? Or should we pause and think about what we’ve heard, giving it the respect and careful consideration it apparently deserves?
So look at Psalm 62:8:
Trust in Him at all times, you people; Pour out your heart before Him; God is a refuge for us. Selah
Holy Trinity has had its annual meeting, and we're in for quite a bit of work, change and growth.
The Bishop requested that we raise up a member of the congregation to attend seminary and serve as our priest. We now have a candidate for that, and the discernment process will be moving forward.
We'll be getting a bit of a face lift with new carpets and repairs being made under the altar.
The Prayer Shawl Ministry is contacting all the churches in the area to enlist the assistance of knitters, crocheters, organizers and hoarders of unused yarn - as well as names of people who need prayer shawls, caring covers, hats, scarves, etc. so that we can serve the broader community.
We have many ideas for utilizing the space in Parish Hall, from movie nights to game nights to seminars on a variety of topics to help the community. We're also working with the other churches in Troy with the assistance of the ERD on setting up a workshop for Pastors and Disasters to organize the spiritual community in Troy for dealing with disasters from small to large.
Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended it, but this one thing I do: forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
