Welcome
St. Luke’s is a downtown church worshiping in the oldest church building in the city. We are a diverse parish economically. We have congregants of several ethnicities, varied backgrounds and political views.
We have a growing outreach ministry that includes making meals and sandwiches for the Montana Rescue Mission, letting our building to be used by community groups, projects such as Dress a Child at Christmas and some of our youth participated in a missionary trip to Mississippi this last summer.
See events for a month calendar and opportunities for fellowship.
St. Luke’s has an active church school (Godly Play) and a youth group. We house a popular preschool for which we renovated part of our building.
St. Luke’s has four worship services each week and a music program. There are many fellowship and educational opportunities for all ages.
We pride ourselves on being accepting and open-minded. Come worship with us and see.
Fr. Waddingham's
Past Weekly Musings:
2012
January 2 2012
January 9 2012
January 16 2012
January 23 2012
January 30 2012
February 6 2012
Feb. 13 2012
Feb. 20 2012
Feb. 27 2012
March 13 2012
March 19 2012
March 26 2012
April 16 2012
April 30 2012
May 7 2012
May 14 2012
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Weekly Musings ~ May 14, 2012
I remember The Feast of the Ascension is one of the seven major feasts of the church. It comes exactly forty days after Easter. Pentecost comes 50 days after Easter. As I said on Sunday, it is not intended as a miracle story as many of the healing stories are intended. It is the story of the church’s coming of age. It is the story of Christ’s return to the Godhead and the restoration of the Trinity.
The notion of the ascension of holy men was present in Judaism. The ascension of Elijah is a famous theme of Russian icons, particularly icons that were written in the villages.
Scripture also talks about the ascension of Moses and later, in the so called Apocryphal or dutero-canonical texts the ascension of Elijah and Enoch occur. Christ has made resurrection appearances for ten days after Easter. He then left the apostles and disciples to do the work of the church on earth. In another ten days he would send the Holy Spirit to remind them what He said.
This is the final maturing of the Apostles. They must now run the church, albeit, in ten days, with the help of the Holy Spirit.
Soon, on the Feast of Pentecost, the Paschal Candle will be put out and not lit until next Easter. We will enter the feral season of the church, the long and green season of Pentecost which is finally broken, much later, by Advent. We will hear once again Isaiah tell us to “make way.”
Ascension by Salvador Dali, contemporary
News from St. Luke’s
Here are some of our children singing on May 6.
The 8 am service will have been discontinued for the summer.
National Church Missioner coming to St. Luke’s the weekend of October 6.
The Rev. Bob Honeychurch is the National Missioner for Church Vitality. He works out of the office in Los Angeles. Bob is a native of Butte, Montana. He will be with us on the weekend of October 6 to discuss ways for St. Luke’s to move forward with its God-given unique mission. Part of this process will involve our visioning about what we want our ministry to be to the world outside these walls. Details are to follow.
IMPORTANT DATES:
Don't forget our UTO Ingathering (United Thanks Offering) • May 19 & 20
Honoring our graduates • May 20
The ECW will honor our 2012 graduates after the 10 am service
Youth Group • the youth group meets Wednesday at 6 pm
Youth Confirmation • This meets from 5 - 6 pm. on Wednesday
Confirmation and Bishop’s Visit June 3 at 10 am. Please come to the 10 am. service on June 3 to honor our confirmands. Those being confirmed are Grace DeBoer, Anthony Songstand and Connor Waddingham.
The Rev. Canon Gary Waddingham
Rector, St. Luke’s Episcopal Church
Regional Canon, Diocese of Montana
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