What we believe

If you want a quick look at the theology of Holy Cross Church-Episcopal, please go to our website at http://www.holycrosschurchbillings.org/ and click on "about us" on the left side of your screen. If you scroll down to "what we believe", you will find the Apostles' Creed and the Nicene Creed, both of which are concise statements of the Christian faith as held by the early Church Fathers and handed on to us.

Here is a recommendation of the Creeds by Cyril, Bishop of Jeruslem, who died in the year 386:

Now I order you to retain this creed for your nourisment throughout life and never to accept any alternative, not even if I myself were to change and say something contrary to what I am now teaching, not even if some angel of contradiction, changed into an angel of light, tried to lead you astray. . . .

So for the present be content to listen to the simple words of the creed and to memorize them; at some suitable time you can find the proof of each article in the Scriptures. This summary of the faith was not composed at any human whim; the most important sections were chosen from the whole Scripture to constitute and complete a comprehensive statement of the faith. Just as the mustard seed contains in a small grain many branches, so this brief statement of the faith keeps in its heart, as it were, all the religious truth to be found in Old and New Testament alike.

That is why, beloved, you must consider and preserve the traditions you are now receiving. Inscribe them across your heart. Observe them scrupulously, so that no enemy may rob any of you in an idle and heedless moment; let no heretic deprive you of what has been given to you. Faith is rather like depositing in a bank the money entrusted to you, and God will surely demand an account of what you have deposited. You have now been given life's great treasure. [from "Readings for the Daily Office from the Early Church", Proper 28, Friday, 447-8]


In peace,
Linda+
The Rev. Linda McCloud
Vicar, Holy Cross Church Episcopal
Billings, MT 59108
http://www.holycrosschurchbillings.org/
406-208-7314