Interrupting the Silence

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

  • Extreme Pilgrim – A Journey to St. Anthony’s Monastery

    The following video (about an hour) is a BBC production documenting the journey of Father Peter Owen-Jones, an Anglican priest, to the monastery of St. Anthony in the Egyptian desert. Father Peter is going to the desert where “there’s no escape, there’s no distraction” and we face and deal with our “issues.” He will live Read more

  • St. Maximus on Image and Likeness

    The first objective of God was for the human being to come to be “according to the image and likeness of God,” and what is “according to the image” is incorruption, immortality, invisibility, which image the divine: and he has bestowed these on the soul for it to possess, having bestowed along with them both Read more

  • “If You Consider Me Wise, Become As I Am”

    Today, January 17, is the Feast of St. Antony of Egypt. We remember with thanksgiving his life and seek his prayers and guidance for our own lives. His biography, The Life of Antony, was written by St. Athanasius. St. Antony’s desert journey began one Sunday morning in a small Egyptian village in the year 270 Read more

  • A Wedding at Cana, An Earthquake in Haiti

    The readings and collect for the Second Sunday after the Epiphany may be found here. Isaiah 62:1-5   For Zion’s sake I will not keep silent, and for Jerusalem’s sake I will not rest, until her vindication shines out like the dawn, and her salvation like a burning torch. 2The nations shall see your vindication, Read more

  • Where is God in the Hatian earthquake?

    That question is one many struggle with in regards to not only natural disasters of national proportions but also in our own lives and personal struggles, losses, and disappointments. “Where is God?” To ask the question is to acknowledge our own powerlessness over much of life and the world. My own experience of powerlessness is Read more

  • Pray in Silence – St. John Cassian

    “But whenever you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret” (Matthew 6:6). This may be fulfilled by us as follows: we make our request within our room when, drawing our hearts within, away from the tumult of all thoughts and cares, we disclose our 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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