Praying out loud

I went for meditation today to a nearby church, during lunch hour.

In it there was this man who seemed absolutely determined to pray, and pray. His intention was so certain, his will so intense, that he would stand up, then seat, then read from a book, then stand up again, then pray, then grab the book again, and so on, ad nausea-um.

I thought it was picturesque, even funny, however, he kept on praying in a loud whisper, a VERY loud whisper. This resulted in constant interruptions that sounded like "sss" then more words in whisper then "sss", etc

People around him would look up once in a while, and after fifteen or twenty minutes we were taking turns looking at him very directly to see if he would get the idea, I mean, really!, we wanted silence.

But no, this man was on a mission.