Sleeping Inside The Church

Some people do feel very comfortable
inside the church 
that they sleep in the chairs 
unmindful of what others might think. 
They feel so at home 
that they just lean back and close their eyes 
​and take a dose of sleep 
and forgetting all throughout 
that the church is not a park or your house, 
but a Holy Place for meditation and prayers.

Sleeping inside the church is irreverence.

A church is never somebody's home
but God's Temple
which commands utmost reverence.
And reverence means acknowledging
the church as a Holy Place,
praying with humble hearts
and never doing anything that disgraces. 

Sleeping inside the church
is much like wearing informal clothing
or revealing outfits, 
 bringing food and drinks along
and chatting with friends 
instead of being quiet reflecting and praying.
It's a sin not to go to church
and attend masses
for it's refusing to do your purpose 
to praise, worship and give thanks to God
but it would be sinning so much more
when you sleep in the bench.

That photo was taken early in the morning 
right before the 1st Holy Mass at 6:00 AM. 
The guy could be a visitor from nearby city or town 
and decided to spend some time in church 
because establishments were still close. 
He must have been tired from long hours of travel 
so took a dose of sleep. 
But still, 
whatever reason you have to sleep in church 
is so much disrespect and irreverence. 
You could have stayed outside 
where there were benches 
but you chose to sleep inside. 
No excuse for doing that. 

People just naturally do silly, stupid things 
that are so out of place. 
Even some guards inside the church 
 drank coffee during Holy Mass. 
Some girls and women showed a lot of skin 
which distracted devotees 
and others just wore shorts and slippers 
or anything else improper 
as if they are right at home. 
I don't know if they ever realized 
what they were doing 
or they just didn't care at all. 
But we have to bear in mind all the time 
that the Church is a Holy Place, 
the only place in town or in the city 
where we can directly communicate with God 
and nowhere else 
that's why we built it 
separate from our homes.