Interrupting the Silence

Interrupting the Silence is a place for spiritual reflection, guidance, and growth.
It offers practical spirituality grounded in the contemplative tradition.

  • Feast of All Saints – Te Deum laudaumus

    You are God    Te Deum laudamus You are God: we praise you; You are the Lord; we acclaim you; You are the eternal Father: All creation worships you. To you all angels, all the powers of heaven, Cherubim and Seraphim, sing in endless praise: Holy, holy, holy Lord, God of power and might, heaven and Read more

  • The First Step is to Get Your Feet Wet – A Sermon on Joshua 3:7-17, Proper 26A

    The collect and reading for Proper 26A, the Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost, may be found here. The following sermon is based on Joshua 3:7-17. If you have ever spent any time in the wilderness of life then you have probably spent time thinking about the promised land; that place where life will be better, more Read more

  • As They Love Their Cow

    “Some people want to see God with their eyes as they see a cow, and to love Him as they love their cow – for the milk and cheese and profit it brings them. This is how it is with people who love God for the sake of outward wealth or inward comfort. They do not Read more

  • Coined in the Image of God – A Sermon on Matthew 22:15-22, Proper 24A

    The collect and readings for today, the eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost, Proper 24A, may be found here. The following sermon is based on Matthew 22:15-22. There’s a saying you may know. “Paybacks are hell.” I don’t know if the Pharisees of Jesus’ day knew that saying but they are counting on it being true. They Read more

  • Minted by God

      “If Caesar can require his image in a coin, cannot God require his image in a human being?” – St. Augustine, Sermon 308A.7 Read more

  • Why Matter Matters – St. John of Damascus

    I do not venerate matter, I venerate the fashioner of matter, who became matter for my sake and accepted to dwell in matter and through matter worked my salvation, and I will not cease from reverencing matter, through which my salvation was worked. – St. John of Damascus Read more

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Fr. Mike

My name is Mike Marsh. I am a priest of the Episcopal Church. I retired from active parish ministry in 2025 after serving twenty-two years in The Episcopal Diocese of West Texas.

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