Alaric Mark Lewis
On freethinking spinsters and the 50th anniversary of the passing of Shirley Jean Lewis
On May the 11th 1972 my parents hosted an impromptu gathering. My brother David had turned nine two days before and there was a little...
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Alaric Mark Lewis
- Feb 7
- 4 min
On Pride and Joy: A letter to George Edward Lewis (1935-2023)
Dear Dad, On Thursday, the 8th of May, 1975 – four days after my 9th birthday – I was beaten up at recess by a horrible bully. I remember...
Alaric Mark Lewis
- Mar 25, 2022
- 3 min
On American Graffiti, hope and the Annunciation
When I was a child growing up in America in the 1970s there was a romanticism about the 1950s and early 60s that was all over popular...
Alaric Mark Lewis
- Dec 29, 2021
- 3 min
On confusing days and tangled lights
I've just set out our recycling to be taken away. I never know the best time to do this: Do I put it out the night before and risk a...
Alaric Mark Lewis
- Sep 17, 2021
- 4 min
On collared doves and Hildegard of Bingen
Quite recently I have noticed two birds that have been visiting my balcony with increasing regularity. At first I thought they were...
Alaric Mark Lewis
- Aug 6, 2021
- 5 min
On a butter cow and the Transfiguration
For a couple of summers when I was in college I worked at a small diocesan Catholic newspaper. I accepted the job thinking it would be my...
Alaric Mark Lewis
- Jun 4, 2021
- 4 min
On Tobit, bird poo, and silliness
A couple of years ago I was locking up at St George Tombland when a gentleman shouted “Wait a second!” from the street. I thought there...
Alaric Mark Lewis
- May 14, 2021
- 6 min
On a dowager baroness and a bargain-bin saint
In March of 2013 I was locking the church when I sensed that someone was right behind me. I turned around and, indeed, standing so near I...
Alaric Mark Lewis
- Apr 21, 2021
- 3 min
On a funeral choir and a German nun
In a parish where I served as a deacon there was a funeral choir, a group of elderly volunteers who provided the music for every single...
Alaric Mark Lewis
- Mar 3, 2021
- 4 min
On Mr. Park Bench, Mr. Al Capone, and a balm in Gilead
Quite frequently when I'm heading over to church to pray morning prayer, I encounter a guy sitting on a bench who is waiting for a mate...
Alaric Mark Lewis
- Feb 24, 2021
- 4 min
On meteorites, MI6, and Viktor from Chelyabinsk
Last week I received a message on this very website from someone named Viktor who lives in Chelyabinsk. At first I thought some friend...
Alaric Mark Lewis
- Feb 19, 2021
- 5 min
On Mrs. Mingott, the perfect paragraph, and a hat
One day last week I bundled up and went to sit in a frightfully cold St George Colegate Church to spend some time reflecting on the...
Alaric Mark Lewis
- Jan 8, 2021
- 4 min
On life, liberty, happiness, and love
Just a few miles outside of Charlottesville, Virginia sits Monticello, the plantation of Thomas Jefferson, the third President of the...
Alaric Mark Lewis
- Dec 18, 2020
- 6 min
On an eccentric monk, a Christmas ornament, and O Adonai
I don't think I've ever lived in a place more filled with more eccentrics than Rome. I know there are eccentrics everywhere, of course,...
Alaric Mark Lewis
- Oct 23, 2020
- 4 min
On Timothy Q. Mouse and Saint Paul
In April of 1972, my parents went to see Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather. I was five years old (nearly six, I would have said was an...
Alaric Mark Lewis
- Oct 2, 2020
- 4 min
On golf and guardian angels
Back in 1982 I was at golf practice when, quite suddenly, the blue skies all around us began to take on a more sinister colour - a...
Alaric Mark Lewis
- Sep 26, 2020
- 13 min
On imaginary friends waiting at the airport
The woman stood scanning the faces of the people walking out of the door for international arrivals. Upon arriving there herself she had...
Alaric Mark Lewis
- Sep 25, 2020
- 7 min
On my imaginary friend Diana and what we need
Many years ago – I actually can tell you it was March of 1985, to be precise – I got into a rather heated discussion about Christianity...
Alaric Mark Lewis
- Jul 8, 2020
- 4 min
On Vito Corleone, complexity, and holiness
Earlier this year – although it seems like a lifetime ago now – I was part of a panel of four priests talking about various aspects of...
Alaric Mark Lewis
- Jun 26, 2020
- 3 min
On Gunsmoke and echoes
Gunsmoke was an American television series that was on for twenty years and many more years after on syndication. It was set in the...
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