Dante failed to kneel at the appropriate time

Deeply immersed in meditation during a church service, Italian poet Dante Alighieri failed to kneel at the appropriate moment. His enemies hurried to the bishop and demanded that Dante be punished for his sacrilege. Dante defended himself by saying, “If those who accuse me had of had their eyes and minds on God, as I had, they too would have failed to have noticed what I was doing.” (Today in the Word, March 10, 1993)