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.
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.
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