Alaric Mark Lewis
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...
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Alaric Mark Lewis
- May 10, 2020
- 8 min
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, 2020
- 3 min
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, 2020
- 2 min
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, 2020
- 5 min
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, 2020
- 2 min
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, 2020
- 3 min
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, 2020
- 4 min
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, 2020
- 3 min
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, 2020
- 3 min
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, 2020
- 3 min
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, 2020
- 5 min
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, 2020
- 3 min
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, 2020
- 4 min
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, 2020
- 3 min
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, 2020
- 4 min
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...
Alaric Mark Lewis
- Apr 21, 2020
- 4 min
On nickels in trees and moving forward
About fifty years ago my father, on one of our drives around the tiny country roads that snaked through Macoupin County, Illinois, wedged...
Alaric Mark Lewis
- Apr 19, 2020
- 3 min
On lions, confidence, and comfort
One of my favourite paintings at the National Gallery in Washington DC is an illustration from the story of Daniel. In spite of being a...
Alaric Mark Lewis
- Apr 18, 2020
- 5 min
On wasps, Pabst Blue Ribbon, chewing tobacco, and Easter
In the summer of 1975, when I was nine years old, I stepped on a nest of wasps. The painful event occurred at my grandparents' cabin on...
Alaric Mark Lewis
- Apr 15, 2020
- 2 min
On Easter joy, dancing, and Journey
I have a grandnephew named Carson who is nine years old and is astoundingly fun to be around. He is enthusiastic and energetic and...
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