Alaric Mark Lewis
On connection and Tony, Tony looking around
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...
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Alaric Mark Lewis
May 15, 20204 min read
On the return of Marguerite and Saint Peter at a matinee of Dreamgirls
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...
Alaric Mark Lewis
May 13, 20203 min read
On dropping through roofs, empty-headed singers, and simplicity
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,...
Alaric Mark Lewis
May 12, 20203 min read
On hope, despair, and a bird named Burt
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...
Alaric Mark Lewis
May 11, 20205 min read
On a holy crown and touching saints
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...
Alaric Mark Lewis
May 10, 20208 min read
On feeling sound and being prepared
Just north of Springfield, Illinois sits a sprawling cemetery called Oak Ridge which boasts acres and acres of immaculately kept graves,...
Alaric Mark Lewis
May 8, 20203 min read
On VE Day and Maya Angelou
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,...
Alaric Mark Lewis
May 8, 20202 min read
On the NHS and a bell
Yesterday evening, after praying along with evening prayer on YouTube, I toddled over to St George Tombland to say some prayers of...
Alaric Mark Lewis
May 7, 20205 min read
On seeing angels
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...
Alaric Mark Lewis
May 6, 20202 min read
On light, darkness, and jesting
I frequently think of Saint Paul much like an occasionally embarrassing uncle giving a toast at a wedding. He starts off well - clever...
Alaric Mark Lewis
May 5, 20203 min read
On kindness, Intrigue, and nuns who polka
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...
Alaric Mark Lewis
May 5, 20204 min read
On golden calves and making excuses
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...
Alaric Mark Lewis
May 1, 20203 min read
On jumping sheep and apostles
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...
Alaric Mark Lewis
May 1, 20203 min read
On questioning and a pigmy mule, darling
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...
Alaric Mark Lewis
Apr 29, 20203 min read
On bad haircuts and Catherine of Siena
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...
Alaric Mark Lewis
Apr 29, 20205 min read
On supermarkets, visits, and the ordinary
I'm finding the etiquette of social distancing not always easy to manoeuvre. For example the queues to get into the supermarket are easy...
Alaric Mark Lewis
Apr 28, 20203 min read
On Hawai'i Pidgin and God
One thing the Internet makes easy is looking at different translations of the Scriptures. If I'm studying or preparing a sermon I always...
Alaric Mark Lewis
Apr 28, 20204 min read
On tapping into eternity
"What day is it?" I remember as a child being completely mystified when my grandmother would ask that question. She did not suffer from...
Alaric Mark Lewis
Apr 24, 20203 min read
On Sonny, Cher, and prayer
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...
Alaric Mark Lewis
Apr 22, 20204 min read
On omers, bushels, and pecks
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...
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