ALARIC MARK LEWIS

Lots of people know that Saint Anthony of Padua is the patron saint of lost things. "Tony, Tony look around: something's lost that must...

The day before yesterday I was walking home from church and saw the woman whom Linus and I had encountered a couple of weeks earlier when...

The first time I ever spoke about vocations was twenty-six years ago, as part of a panel of six priests. I was very much second string,...

A few days ago, a bird nest with two small chicks fell onto the patio. One bird was injured in the fall and I sadly haven't seen him...

During the summer of 2003 I lived in Vienna, doing an intensive German course, spending eight hours a day, five days a week studying that...

Just north of Springfield, Illinois sits a sprawling cemetery called Oak Ridge which boasts acres and acres of immaculately kept graves,...

In the poem When Great Trees Fall, Maya Angelou likens grief to the effects on the world when a great tree falls: When great trees fall,...

Yesterday evening, after praying along with evening prayer on YouTube, I toddled over to St George Tombland to say some prayers of...

In the summer of 2004, I toddled over to St. Peter's to celebrate a morning mass there. There is a school there – a pre-seminary they...

I frequently think of Saint Paul much like an occasionally embarrassing uncle giving a toast at a wedding. He starts off well - clever...

Many years years ago I attended a polka mass and dinner dance at a friend's church. (I think you haven't really lived until you've been...

When I was teaching English I had a rule that if the students were going to be late handing in an assignment, they would naturally be...

Today I received a video of a sheep jumping on a trampoline. I'm quite sure if this had happened a few months ago I would have been...

Nearly 28 years ago I was making a private directed retreat prior to being ordained. My retreat master was a priest named Jack, who was...

One of the topics of conversation this past Sunday in our virtual coffee gathering was how we are coping without going to the barber or...

I'm finding the etiquette of social distancing not always easy to manoeuvre. For example the queues to get into the supermarket are easy...

One thing the Internet makes easy is looking at different translations of the Scriptures. If I'm studying or preparing a sermon I always...

"What day is it?" I remember as a child being completely mystified when my grandmother would ask that question. She did not suffer from...

My sister Kathy had a canopy bed growing up. White and lacy, the canopy itself was attached to the posts by large wooden pegs which kind...

I remember when President Carter - a very, very good man - was in the White House there was this big push in the US to go metric. A...