"Father Charlie"

Charlie has been playing Mass on a daily basis for the last few months. I finally had a friend sew him some vestments, and have been working to put together a little "Mass kit" for him, although he plays just fine with whatever he finds lying around.  It's fun to see the things that he notices and imitates. He will even do a little reading out of a Bible and then follow it up by sitting in his chair and "meditating" for a few moments before moving onto the next thing. I do remember the first time in Mass that he really noticed our priest doing that; he turned to me and said, "Look. Father is sleeping!"

A few weeks ago, we were at a Lutheran church, and Charlie started to "play church" on a little altar-like area they had in the basement.  Someone saw him and said to me, "It looks like you might have a future pastor there." After about 10 seconds he started genuflecting, and she said, "Oh...maybe a priest."