Leave it to a friend to put you on the spot. (Image Source: Wikimedia Commons ) What would you do, she asked me, if a homeless man repeatedly came into the Church to sleep, snoring and with foul body odor and refused offers to shower in the rectory? He is not otherwise disruptive or violent. He simply sleeps and stinks. Many Adorers in my friend’s parish refuse to do their Holy Hour if this man is present. This is no hypothetical question. This is reality in this one parish. The simplest and easiest solution to this difficult situation would to bar him from being with God. Such a response may make some Adorers more comfortable, but how would the Lord they come to adore feel? What would He expect of us? Coward that I am, I responded with a series of questions – a lot easier to do than to answer the specific one she posed.
