Sleeping in Church

When I was a kid, one of the congregations my family attended had a fairly small sanctuary. We sat close to the back, but, just a couple of pews down and to our left, there was an older man who sat at the end of a pew, right under a tall stained-glass window. He was a friendly guy, but he was also a life-long bachelor, so he was just about always by himself. And whenever the pastor began his sermon, the man would lean over against the end of the pew and promptly go to sleep.

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The GLRP Notes: Week #7; Chapter Six, pgs 132-147

So, we’ve arrived at the end of the book, and, since the final chapter is entitled “Living the Mystery”, it would be easy to think that Father Andrew would wind things up with some practical pointers about how to incorporate into our lives all of the stuff in the previous 131 pages. However, that’s not what happens: in the first few pages of the chapter there is a helpful review of much of the ground that has been covered, but then Father Andrew uses that review as a springboard to revisit the issue with which he begins the book: the division, the separation that we all experience in ourselves.

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