Interrupting the Silence

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

  • Theosis in the Episcopal Church

    In a previous post I wrote about theosis as the human vocation. Theosis, was a central concept and theme within the early church and remains so today in Eastern Orthodoxy. Was theosis lost by the west in the East-West schism of 1054? Where is theosis within the Anglican tradition and more specifically in the American expression Read more

  • It’s About God, Not The Dirt – A Sermon on Matthew 13:1-9, 18-23, Proper 10A

    The collect and readings for the Fourth Sunday After Pentecost, Proper 10A, may be found here. The appointed gospel is Matthew 13:1-9, 18-23. Jesus went out of the house and sat beside the sea. Such great crowds gathered around him that he got into a boat and sat there, while the whole crowd stood on Read more

  • Theosis, the Human Vocation

    There are moments when the existential questions of life can no longer be answered, ignored, or denied by focusing on our careers, jobs, marriages, families, acquisitions, or accomplishments. We are, to paraphrase the opening of St. Augustine’s Confessions, restless until our hearts rest in God. Who am I? Where am I from? Where am I Read more

  • The Yoke of Christ – A Sermon on Matthew 11:16-30, Proper 9A

    The collect and readings for the Third Sunday after Pentecost, Proper 9A, may be found here. The appointed gospel is Matthew 11: 16-19, 25-30. I have, however, included the omitted verses, 20-24. “But to what will I compare this generation? It is like children sitting in the marketplaces and calling to one another, ‘We played Read more

  • The Martyrdom of Peter and Paul

    Today is the commemoration of the martyrdom of St. Peter and St. Paul. The Church’s tradition teaches that they both died as martyrs in Rome during the persecution under Nero in 64 A.D. According to tradition, Paul was granted the right of a Roman citizen to be beheaded by a sword, but Peter suffered the Read more

  • The Choreography of Love – A Sermon for the Feast of the Holy Trinity, Matthew 28:16-20

    The collect and readings for the Feast of the Holy Trinity may be found here. The appointed gospel is Matthew 28:16-20. The eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain to which Jesus had directed them. When they saw him, they worshiped him; but some doubted. And Jesus came and said to them, “All authority Read more

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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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