tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11369230297643980882024-02-18T19:33:14.323-07:00Holy Trinity Episcopal Church, Troy MontanaWelcome 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!Angeliquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02663348883635639023noreply@blogger.comBlogger440125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1136923029764398088.post-66110501086832572842019-09-24T20:53:00.001-06:002019-09-24T20:54:18.743-06:00Angel wanted me to update the blog for Holy Trinity Episcopal Church in Troy. At this point normal Sunday services will be Morning Prayer only until further notice.soldatfhq@gmail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03108167712176948284noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1136923029764398088.post-16406692110879147042019-09-01T12:06:00.000-06:002019-09-01T12:06:26.945-06:00Sunday: Closely Watching
Today we're listening to the Gospel lesson, and Jesus had been asked to attend a Sabbath dinner at a private home of some Pharisees. The Bible is anything but subtle about the lessons that we will receive. Within one verse, we know something's up, because Jesus is being very closely watched. With this first verse, we know this isn't simply a nice invitation to Sabbath dinner.&Angeliquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02663348883635639023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1136923029764398088.post-10966143230065684572019-08-27T12:52:00.001-06:002019-08-27T12:52:46.007-06:00Tuesday Sermon: Scribes, Pharisees and Hypocrites
Jesus went to the heart of the matter when he called the religious leaders of His day: scribes, Pharisees and hypocrites! The word hypocrite means actor -- someone who puts on a show to draw attention to themselves. The scribes devoted their lives to the study of the Law of God and regarded themselves as legal experts in it. They divided the 10 Commandments and precepts into Angeliquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02663348883635639023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1136923029764398088.post-20415922739756701822019-08-20T13:14:00.000-06:002019-08-20T13:15:58.973-06:00Tuesday Sermon: Bigger Pictures
One of the things that I love about mid-week readings is
that we are given the opportunity to see portions that we don't get to hear
about the lessons, stories and people
who share their lives with us. And while
the gospel lesson today is definitely interesting and well worth reading about,
today, we're going to focus on the story inAngeliquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02663348883635639023noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1136923029764398088.post-3195118908271585102019-08-18T13:17:00.000-06:002019-08-18T13:17:34.709-06:00Sermon: Seize the Day
This week,
I've been looking at what inspires people.
The inspiration from the Bible itself is much easier to listen, and
understand the passion that was actually written in those words. Our Psalm this morning can inspire the words
that David speaks: "They have
burned it with fire, they have cut it down; may they perish Angeliquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02663348883635639023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1136923029764398088.post-2769304478037645952019-08-13T12:10:00.002-06:002019-08-13T12:10:47.612-06:00Tuesday Sermon: True Greatness
Today's Gospel
hits home with me. When I was ordained,
responsible for guiding the souls of this church, concerned with numbers in
both of people and of monies, I focused on everything but concentrating on my own responsibility. There's a story that put today's lesson into
perspective.
 Angeliquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02663348883635639023noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1136923029764398088.post-53453576238531386152019-08-12T08:27:00.001-06:002019-08-12T08:27:42.998-06:00Sermon: Plans
One of the
interesting things we find in the Bible is that people – faithful, everyday
people who believe in God – were pretty normal people. Their conversations with God included thanks
and praise, prayers and worries, but like today, also included a bit of
kvetching because things weren't exactly as promised by God. As you'veAngeliquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02663348883635639023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1136923029764398088.post-67549949864546523752019-08-08T20:56:00.001-06:002019-08-08T20:56:34.329-06:00Thursday Sermon: Perceiving Reality
Teachers live for the "aha!" moments. Their student's eyes light up and you can almost see the lightbulb above their head as they finally get it. The problem is, sometimes what they're getting isn't what you're teaching. And that can only be discovered if you take things a little bit further.
Stranger danger is a lesson many parents provide to their children, Angeliquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02663348883635639023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1136923029764398088.post-12264124195359508502019-08-04T13:52:00.000-06:002019-08-04T13:52:42.041-06:00Sermon: Choose
Ecclesiastes
examines the age old question: why are
we here? Koheleth, the
author/teacher/pseudonym for Wisdom, goes through a litany of experiences in
life, building on basic knowledge, acquiring proficiencies, enjoying sensual
experiences of all the senses. He
concludes, however, that without fear
of God – fear meaning Angeliquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02663348883635639023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1136923029764398088.post-85674745908524244042019-07-21T11:53:00.000-06:002019-07-21T11:53:18.535-06:00Sermon: Losing the Word
"But I am
like a green olive tree in the house of God.
I trust in the steadfast love of God forever and ever. I will thank you forever, because of what you
have done. In the presence of the
faithful I will wait for your name, for it is good." (Psalm 52:8-9)
Angeliquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02663348883635639023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1136923029764398088.post-47275637920860610472019-07-18T20:12:00.000-06:002019-07-18T20:12:48.037-06:00Thursday Sermon: Need for Comforting Words
Today's Gospel
is one of the words of comfort. In our
lives, all of us need comfort, refreshment, rest. We're in the midst of summer, and this is the
time of year when people hope to get
some refreshment. We hope to slow down a little, play a little more, have more
time, here in the midsummer. We take a
trip, if we can afford one; relaxAngeliquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02663348883635639023noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1136923029764398088.post-32764363921722404012019-07-14T10:49:00.005-06:002019-07-14T10:51:52.373-06:00Sermon: The Law
Hear, Israel,
the Lord is our God, the Lord is One. Blessed be the Name of His glorious
kingdom for ever and ever. And you shall
love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all
your might. And these words that I command you today shall be in your heart. And
you shall teach them diligently to
your children, and Angeliquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02663348883635639023noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1136923029764398088.post-42124859072680481182019-07-11T19:43:00.000-06:002019-07-11T19:43:41.138-06:00Thursday Sermon: God Prevails - Will You Help?
Our Old and
New Testament readings today provide two different methods of how God
accomplishes His own ends. Sometimes
people have been instructed, as Christ instructed his apostles before He sent
them out. And sometimes God needs
particular people in certain places, times or with experiences that are needed
for future events, Angeliquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02663348883635639023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1136923029764398088.post-41849288301202916722019-07-07T12:01:00.000-06:002019-07-07T12:01:12.355-06:00Sermon: God's Peace
The peace of
the Lord be always with you. Think for a
second about that phrase. How often when
we pass the peace are we passing our own
peace, rather than the peace of God,
which, as we've been told, passes our own understanding. In today's Gospel, Jesus instructs the 70 as
they go out, when they enter a house, they Angeliquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02663348883635639023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1136923029764398088.post-62704169775104223602019-06-23T10:56:00.002-06:002019-06-23T10:57:37.734-06:00Sermon: No Babysitter, But Remember God's Grace
Let the words
of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O
LORD, my strength, and my redeemer. In
the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, Amen.
Within the
church year, we've experienced Advent through Epiphany, followed by Lent, and
Easter Angeliquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02663348883635639023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1136923029764398088.post-56420893342672304612019-06-16T10:45:00.000-06:002019-06-16T10:45:57.698-06:00Sermon: Wisdom of the Trinity
In the name of
the Father, and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, Amen.
Today is Trinity
Sunday, and is unique in that it is the only holy day founded on doctrine, and
not on an event or particular person.
However, the Trinity is at the very
foundation of our faith, and Angeliquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02663348883635639023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1136923029764398088.post-39766427600954943942019-06-11T13:39:00.002-06:002019-06-13T16:21:03.029-06:00Tuesday Sermon: St. Barnabus
Today being
the Feast of St. Barnabas, we learn about an exemplary apostle, considered one
of the 72 originally sent out by Jesus. The
Acts of the Apostles describes Barnabas as 'a good man, full of the Holy Spirit
and of faith' (6:24). His Jewish parents named him Joseph, but after he had sold
all his possessions and given the moneyAngeliquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02663348883635639023noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1136923029764398088.post-81377687411941251262019-06-09T11:05:00.000-06:002019-06-09T11:05:36.311-06:00Sermon: It's in the Wind
Let the words
of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable to you, O Lord, my
rock and my redeemer.
Think back to
Genesis Chapter 11, where the people said, “Come, let us build ourselves a
city, and a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make a name for
ourselves"Angeliquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02663348883635639023noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1136923029764398088.post-49688017791195773952019-06-05T13:55:00.002-06:002019-06-05T13:55:35.530-06:00Quarterly Quiet Day - Labyrinths and Cairns
Holy Trinity is
sponsoring
A Quiet
Day Retreat
Saturday,
6/29
10:00
a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
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Seven Circle
Labyrinth
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Building
a Cairn
Suggestions for quiet
contemplation,
reflection and prayer
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<![endif]--><!--[if Angeliquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02663348883635639023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1136923029764398088.post-7984446514735128272019-06-04T11:46:00.000-06:002019-06-04T11:46:30.770-06:00Tuesday Sermon: Fulfilling Your Promises
I was once
fortunate to know a man named John. John
was fairly late to come to the Lord, being about 50 years old, when he met his
wife, and just knew that he'd have to be a better man to be worthy of her. Not long after that, he was baptized and
joined the church. John was rather
fascinated with Paul, and loved reading Angeliquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02663348883635639023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1136923029764398088.post-86269685864685439182019-06-02T11:10:00.002-06:002019-06-02T11:11:54.298-06:00Sermon: Intercession and Community
Each time we
meet together, we all say the Lord's Prayer, just as Jesus taught. In the NRSV version of the Bible, the word "pray"
is mentioned 516 times, with 156 of those coming from the New Testament, and 55
times are mentioned in the Gospels.
There are six different Greek words for the word pray, so numbers change
from thereAngeliquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02663348883635639023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1136923029764398088.post-3319319174943474912019-05-28T09:48:00.000-06:002019-05-28T17:10:06.031-06:00Tuesday Sermon: Perspective
Perspectives
are fascinating things. How one person
views something happening can be seen by someone else as something completely
different, and might be something absolutely different to God. Alternatively, perhaps with the choices we
humans make, God ensures that whatever the outcome, it will be to the benefit
of His plan forAngeliquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02663348883635639023noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1136923029764398088.post-86740178791227639802019-05-26T12:07:00.000-06:002019-05-26T18:50:10.356-06:00Sermon: What Can *You* Do?
I love
history. With one phrase in the lesson
in Acts, we are told huge amounts about the woman, Lydia, a woman honored in
both the Roman and Orthodox churches this past week as a saint. According to our text, she – not her husband,
not her father – she was a "dealer in purple cloth." She was a Macedonian woman, an area Angeliquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02663348883635639023noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1136923029764398088.post-1399025988148774412019-05-21T08:20:00.000-06:002019-05-21T14:26:22.044-06:00Tuesday Sermon: Advocates
If you ask anyone to tell you
which holy days define the Christian Faith, people will generally say that it's
Christmas and Easter. These two days
are, of course, both days that celebrate birth, but it is Easter that
celebrates birth into eternity, as our exemplar, Jesus Christ, is the first to
lead the way. We are, what can be
called, an Easter people.
&Angeliquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02663348883635639023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1136923029764398088.post-31343827668670996982019-05-19T11:56:00.000-06:002019-05-21T14:25:27.612-06:00Sermon: Just as I have loved you...
Peter said,
"If then God gave them the same gift that he gave us when we believed in
the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I that I could hinder God?" Peter recognized that limitations on God are
entirely made of human hubris. And yet,
we often see people who decide to put words in God's mouth, or even more often limit
other people byAngeliquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02663348883635639023noreply@blogger.com2