ON NORWICH AND VISIONS
When I came to Norwich I decided that I would stand outside the church for a half hour before my first service each Sunday. This gives me...
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Alaric Lewis
Jun 20, 20184 min
On Saint Norbert, Corpulent Monks, and the Baroque
“My name is Marton with an 'o,'” he said in heavily accented, though perfect English. “There is no 'i' in Marton,” he continued with a...
Alaric Lewis
May 9, 20182 min
ON PACHOMIUS AND CROCODILES
Your name means “big shouldered” and I can believe it, since I saw a depiction of you crossing the mighty Nile on the back of a...
Alaric Lewis
May 2, 20182 min
On Saint Athanasius
Reflections upon a stained glass window Your painted gaze bores holes in me. Seated on a throne, legs apart like an arrogant colossus,...
Alaric Lewis
Sep 17, 20177 min
On Scary Clowns and Saint Paul
At the beginning of my third year in college, on the advice of my sister Kathy, I picked up what was at the time the latest novel of the...
Alaric Lewis
Aug 15, 20176 min
On Apologies and Hatred
At the end of July, 1941, something quite remarkable happened at the infamous death camp Auschwitz - an escape. Little is known about the...
Alaric Lewis
Jul 29, 20176 min
On Four Weddings and a Funeral, Donald Trump, and Looking Backwards
I recently watched, for the first time in probably twenty years, Four Weddings and a Funeral, the 1994 film directed by Mike Newell and...
Alaric Mark Lewis
Jul 18, 20176 min
On Jane Austen and Imagination
I am a fan of what I call extreme literature, by which I mean going to places which are significant to particular writers and reading...
Alaric Mark Lewis
May 15, 20176 min
On Primavera
When I was a child I spent a great deal of time with my grandparents — Grams and Gramps — at their humble little summer place on...
Linus, vicarage dog
Apr 16, 20174 min
On Going to the Dogs: A Guest Blog written by Linus Lewis
When Alaric first asked me to write a blog I must admit to having felt rather inadequate to the task. Though there are many examples of...
Alaric Lewis
Mar 15, 20173 min
On Listening and Martinis
During my first assignment as a priest, from 1993 to 1997, I was the coordinator for the renovation of Saint Anthony of Padua Church, in...
Alaric Lewis
Dec 25, 20163 min
On Christmas and Father Damien
My first year in the seminary my spiritual director gave me a book to read entitled Holy Man: Father Damien of Molokai. The book tells...
Alaric Lewis
Nov 15, 20163 min
On Elections and Dogs
Last week - Tuesday to be exact - I skipped an entire night of sleep as I, anxiously glued to my iPad, watched the American election...
Alaric Lewis
Sep 15, 20163 min
On Hearts and Chimes
Yesterday my family gathered at the Prairie Heart Institute at Saint John’s Hospital in Springfield, Illinois, where my sister Kathy...
Alaric Lewis
Aug 15, 20164 min
On The Birds and Church Attendance
In Alfred Hitchcock’s 1963 classic The Birds, the tranquil life of the small hamlet of Bodega Bay, near San Francisco, is shattered by...
Alaric Lewis
Jul 15, 20163 min
On Family and Brexit
Thirty-five years ago my family packed me up and sent me off to Sweden, so that I could broaden my horizons with an experience of living...
Alaric Lewis
Jun 15, 20163 min
On Safe Places and Love
In the early hours of June the 12th, at a dance club in Orlando, Florida, USA, a man walked in and began terrorising those there, in the...
Alaric Lewis
May 15, 20164 min
On The Wind and the Willows and Pentecost
I have spoken quite often of my love of The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame. If not at position number one, it is certainly always...
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