Do you feel sleepy while listening to the sermon of the priest?

everytime.. I feel very sleepy listening to that yapping person in front of us and continues to read. very boring.

Hi rosey19, I too have fallen asleep at mass when I used to attend. I think its just the fact that it's a nice quiet place and most priests have soothing monotone voices. Unlike most of the people who have responded, I agree with you that it doesn't take a weekly visit to church for God to know that He is ALWAYS in my heart and ALWAYS on my mind. My dad is a very religious person , and since he went to his new church, he became very forceful on his opinions of church going and all things Christ related. For years our relationship suffered because he tried to push his views on to me, but lately I think he got the picture, that just because I don't attend church, does not make me any less a good daughter or a good person. I love that some people have found Christ and that it gives them comfort and all things, but it does not give them the right to say that we are any less than they. God is the one and only judge, and only HE can judge us in the end, and I know that I will stand up as well as any one else who believes and trusts in HIM.

yes, especially when i was younger. it's kinda funny because while i was at my aunt's last week, i went with them to their church service. i'm catholic, they're christians. i thought catholic masses where long but they're really short compared to their pastor's sermon. my brother was literally falling asleep beside me, i had to nudge him. in his defense though, we were a bit jet lagged as we have just arrived two nights before. when our cousins asked us if we liked the service, we told them that we liked it although it was quite lenghty. i even told them that my brother was falling asleep and they all laughed and said that that was pretty much the standard length of their sermon. so the next week when we went to their church again, my cousin was nudging my brother jokingly all the time even though he wasn't sleepy at all the second time. :)

When I was before in my old church, every time I attend masses I always feel sleepy because I can not feel the power of the one that is giving sermon because every time I listen to him there is question in my mind, "could this person give sermon that last night he was drunk together with his friend". But I thank God that during my college life God used somebody to led me to Christ and led me to right church. Now I know for sure that when I die I will be going to heaven not because of my new church but because I have Christ in my heart, I accepted him as my personal savior and I repented of my sins.

sometimes i do and i feel guilty about it. its just that sometimes i cant hear what the priest is saying maybe because of the sound system. forgive me for saying this but also i think that some of their sermons are just being repeated.

yes there were times but sitting in front rows will lessen the sleepy feeling..

I know exactly what you mean. When I was very young, I use to go to church every sunday. We would go into the basement to the section where they had sunday school for the kids. I looked forward to the cookies that someone baked and they would be handed out after the lessons. It's funny how I can remember that part but never what the lesson was about. After the cookie we would have free playtime and there were awesome toys there for us and a piano where we could play. After that, we would have to join our parents in the church to listen to the rest of the priest's sermon and by this time I was ready to go home or over to my aunt's place. I would try not to dose off but my eyelids would be so heavy. I loved it when the priest would say "Let us now pray" because that would give me a chance to close my eyes lol. Take care

Yes, I had this experience before that is why we usually sit in front of the chruch and also, to avoid this i go mass early in the morning since i have more energy than doing it at the end of the day. I've also known priest that are really good with their sermon so I usually attend to that mass.

I used to be the same way...every time i went to church, i didn't get it...it was like the preacher was talking to somebody else, it never pertained to me, and if it did it felt like he was judging me or getting mad at me... now i go to a non-demoninational church who's mission is merely helping people meet God. So now that I have the holy spirit with me each time, i always feel like he is talking directly to me!!! like nobody in the church matters but me!

I'm for a clergy family, and the stories we tell about the other side of the pulpit are good fun. I was a church youthworker so i've been up there, and my father is up there regualrly. Sometime you can see people falling asleep infront of you, it rises up like panic.... is it me or did they just get no sleep last night.... can i stop it.... should i make a loud noise or bang something, do you think you'll embarass them if they jump awake. It's disheartening cause you've spent a long time putting together something and you know it won't reach everyone all the time, but you do try. And yes sometimes you get a really dull passage and you feel uninspired and you throw something together and start your sermon with a silent prayer - "please Lord don't let them snore!"

always... but not only in priest, i feel sleepy to when my teacher start the discussion.

I am not a Catholic so i do not call the preachers priests. Instead, i call them ministers. I think, drowsiness is normal to us but I have to continue to keep myself awake and listen to the words God's ministers provide.

haha.. yah honestly.. i did slept before... I feel regret when I do.. :(

Back when I'm a little, I usually get sleepy. I'm too young to actually care. i'm a bad lil kid! O_O

For me, sometimes if the priest is too long for his sermon.. Sometimes i sleep.

You're right about that. Whenever i go to mass i was always seated at the back cuz i always arrive a couple of minutes late. I had no choice but to sit at the back. All i hear most of the time is the reverberation of the priest's voice, which is barely understandable.