Interrupting the Silence

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

  • Pray For Us St. Francis

    Pray For Us St. Francis

    Most high, omnipotent, good Lord, grant your people grace to renounce gladly the vanities of this world; that, following the way of blessed Francis, we may for love of you delight in your whole creation with perfectness of joy; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one… Read more

  • Seeing With The Eye Of The Heart – A Funeral Sermon on 2 Corinthians 4:16-5:9

    Seeing With The Eye Of The Heart – A Funeral Sermon on 2 Corinthians 4:16-5:9

    Richard knew a “secret, a very simple secret.” He knew and trusted that “it is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.” (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince, chapter xxi) That is the secret that sustains us through our losses and gives hope on this… Read more

  • The Light In The Valley Of The Shadow Of Death – A Funeral Sermon on Psalm 23

    The Light In The Valley Of The Shadow Of Death – A Funeral Sermon on Psalm 23

    Today we “walk through the valley of the shadow of death” (Psalm 23). Today the familiarity, poetry, and beauty of the 23rd psalm have a different tone. The shadow is dark and the valley is long and deep. I will not mislead you by denying that reality or letting platitudes and sentimentalities echo off the… Read more

  • What Is The Songline Of Your Life? – A Sermon On Luke 1:46-55

    What Is The Songline Of Your Life? – A Sermon On Luke 1:46-55

    Are you familiar with songlines? Songlines are a part of the aboriginal life. The aborigines tell a creation story in which creation ancestors wandered the continent singing out the name of everything that crossed their path – birds, animals, plants, rocks, caves, desert brush, waterholes – thereby singing the world and all creation into existence.… Read more

  • I Look At Charlottesville And I Am Afraid – A Sermon on Matthew 14:22-33

    I Look At Charlottesville And I Am Afraid – A Sermon on Matthew 14:22-33

    The boat of our life is far from land right now. The night is dark, the waves are high, and the wind is strong. There is every reason to be afraid but I don’t want to live in fear and I don’t want you to either. I want us to see the light that shines… Read more

  • Deliver Me From The Hand Of My Brother – A Sermon On Genesis 32:3-31

    Deliver Me From The Hand Of My Brother – A Sermon On Genesis 32:3-31

    We all have an Esau. Individuals, communities, parishes, religious orders, nations, you, and me – we all have an Esau. I am not talking about a literal Esau but a symbolic and metaphorical Esau. That does not mean, however, that Esau is not real. He is absolutely real. Esau is the face of our past… 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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