Interrupting the Silence

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

  • The Feast of the Holy Cross

    September 14 is the Feast of the Holy Cross. In the Eastern Church it is called the Exaltation of the Holy Cross. The historian Eusebius, in his Life of Constantine, tells how that emperor ordered the erection of a complex of buildings in Jerusalem “on a scale of imperial magnificence,” to set forth as “an Read more

  • What Should We Do About That Moon?

    A wine bottle fell from a wagon and broke open in a field. That night one hundred beetles and all their cousins gathered. And did some serious binge drinking. They even found some seed husks nearby and began to play them like drums and whirl. This made God very happy. Then the “night candle” rose Read more

  • Dominion Over All The Earth

    Christianity teaches that the world is not eternal, but that there was a time when the world was not, a time when it had no existence. The world was created ex nihilo, created from nothing. If the world was created from nothing then the threat of returning to nothingness is ever present. The only way Read more

  • A Funeral Sermon For Warren

    “The Sun of Righteousness is gloriously risen, giving light to those who sat in darkness and in the shadow of death.” John 6:37-40 Romans 8:14-19, 34-35, 37-39 Wisdom 3:1-5,9 How poignant is it that today we do not sing and the organ is not played – this day, of all days, when we gather to Read more

  • And I Will Raise Them Up On the Last Day

    I am the living bread that came down from heaven. Whoever eats of this bread will live forever; and the bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.” 52The Jews then disputed among themselves, saying, “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?” 53So Jesus said to Read more

  • I Am the Bread of Life

    Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never be hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty. 41Then the Jews began to complain about him because he said, “I am the bread that came down from heaven.” 42They were saying, “Is not this Jesus, the 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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