What Bugged Me in Church

Posted on November 15, 2013 
Filed under Australian dioceses

Rick Lewers“Strange things happen in church but to see a cockroach cross the floor of the cathedral can distract attention from the sermon.

My first thoughts were to get up and squash the thing. But what if some bug loving attendee was offended by my callous heel? Where would be the reputation of the Bishop then?

I remained motionless, trying to get my attention back on the sermon but that jolly roach was bugging me.  …”

– Bishop of Armidale Rick Lewers and the lesson from a cockroach.