• Do I Understand Holy Week?

    As I reflect on this past Holy Week and our Easter celebration I keep returning to the question, “Do I understand Holy Week?” The short answer, and perhaps the most honest, is no, not really. I know the story. I even preach the story. I can describe the events of Holy Week but there is Read more

  • Easter Blessings

    Yesterday I was crucified with Christ; today I am glorified with him. Yesterday I was dead with him; today I am sharing in his resurrection. Yesterday I was buried with him; today I am waking with him from the sleep of death. – Gregory Nazianzen Who can understand love but he who loves? I am Read more

  • Holy Saturday – Tomb Work

    Something strange is happening – there is a great silence on earth today, a great silence and stillness. The whole earth keeps silence because the King is asleep. The earth trembled and is still because God has fallen asleep in the flesh and he has raised up all who have slept ever since the world Read more

  • A Good Friday Reflection

    “We glory in your cross, O Lord, and praise and glorify your holy resurrection; for by virtue of your cross joy has come to the whole world. May God be merciful to us and bless us, show us the light of his countenance, and come to us. Let your ways be known upon earth,your saving Read more

  • The Crucifixion by St. John of the Cross

    This drawing was made by St. John of the Cross, probably between 1574 and 1577. He was praying in a loft overlooking the sanctuary at the Monastery of the Incarnation in Avila, Spain.  He received a vision and then sketched what he had beheld. One wonders if this might be the Father’s view of the Read more

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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