Interrupting the Silence

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

  • With Every Breath

    If you really wish to achieve spiritual stillness and to guard your heart successfully, then let the prayer “Lord Jesus, have mercy on me” become one with your breathing, and in a few days you will see how it can all be acheived.                                                                – Hesychios Read more

  • Yeh hum naheen – this is not us

    “Yeh hum naheen” means “this is not us.” The song is a statement that the violence of terrorism is not Islam. Terrorism and violence are not simply Islamic issues. They are issues of humanity. So maybe we should see the video and hear the words as a reminder that any violence is not us, regardless… Read more

  • The Feast of the Holy Name of our Lord Jesus Christ

    For most of the world January 1st is New Year’s Day—the beginning of a new year, a day of football, resolutions, and black-eyed peas. For the church, however, January 1st is the Feast of the Holy Name. More often than not this feast goes unnoticed, uncelebrated, lost in the new year. And it is a… Read more

  • Incarnation

    “O inexpressible mystery and unheard paradox: the Invisible is seen, the Intangible is touched , the eternal Word becomes accessible to our speech, the Timeless steps into time, the Son of God becomes the Son of Man.”                                                                                      — Saint Gregory of Nyssa Read more

  • The Feast of the Nativity of our Lord Jesus Christ

    “What can we bring you, O Christ, for having been born for us on earth as a man? Each creature, the work of your hands, offers you a sign of gratitude: the angels, their hymn; the heavens, the star; the magi, their gifts; the shepherds, their admiration; the earth, a cave; the desert, the manger;… Read more

  • The Icon of the Nativity of our Lord Jesus Christ

    This is a traditional icon of The Nativity. The early church used icons to tell the story—theology in imagery. There is so much to tell and to be seen! For starters, notice that Joseph is off to the bottom left. This is his proper position in the Nativity icon. Think of the Gospel account –… Read more

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Fr. Mike

My name is Mike Marsh. I am a priest of the Episcopal Church. I have served as rector of St. Philip’s Episcopal Church – Uvalde, a parish in the Episcopal Diocese of West Texas, since 2005.

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