Interrupting the Silence

The Pandemic Is Our Holy Week

April 4, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic does not stand as a barrier or in opposition to Holy Week. The pandemic is our Holy Week. We don’t need to try and make Holy Week “normal” or like previous years. We need to experience and connect to Holy Week, not in spite of what is happening, but through what is… Read more
A Prayer For Law Enforcement Officers

April 1, 2020

We thank you, O Lord, for the women and men in law enforcement, for their willingness to answer the call to protect and serve, and for their dedication to the safety, well-being, and protection of others. Send your holy angels to stand guard and keep watch over them. May their names be always on the Read more
A Prayer For Healthcare Providers

March 31, 2020

We thank you, O Lord, for all who dedicate themselves to the study and practice of healing. Bless physicians, nurses, technicians, pharmacists, and all others who minister to the sick and suffering. Grant them wisdom and skill, sympathy, and patience. Give them strength when they are weary, hope when they despair, faith when they doubt, Read more
And You Shall Live – A Sermon On Ezekiel 37:1-14

March 29, 2020

Last week we stood in the valley of the shadow of death. This week we stand in the valley of dry bones. They’re not two different valleys. Both are the valley of COVID-19. How fortunate are we that today the valley of dry bones is one of our assigned scripture readings? It’s exactly what we,… Read more
All Shall Be Well – A Sermon On Psalm 23 And COVID-19

March 22, 2020

“All shall be well. All shall be well. Every manner of thing shall be well.” I hope you will hold on to what those words say. Let them bind you to faith, hope, and love, and connect you to one another. The theme of those words – all shall be well – is the thread… Read more
The First Sunday Of COVID-19 – A Reflection On Exodus 17:1-7

March 18, 2020

It was The Third Sunday in Lent. We had planned to celebrate the Holy Eucharist beginning with the penitential order. It ended up being a different kind of Sunday; not your usual Third Sunday in Lent. We omitted the penitential order and began the liturgy with a prayer concerning COVID-19. There was no water in 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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