I have prayed in some odd circumstances, including while rappelling down a cliff, but when I was younger praying while on my knees was most satisfying. I regret not being able to do that anymore, the spirit being willing, but a crane not being available to do the job when my knees will not. I still agree with CS Lewis:
“At the very least, they can be persuaded that the bodily position makes no difference to their prayers; for they constantly forget, what you must always remember, that they are animals and that whatever their bodies do affects their souls. It is funny how mortals always picture us as putting thing into their minds: in reality our best work is done by keeping things out.”
The Screwtape Letters
I not only would but I do. It helps to assume the position.
I’m a user. 🙏
I can’t even use them at church any more. I can still pull off a genuflection at least.
That is more than I can do Pinky! The golden years: Ha!
Like the others here, I am finding it progressively harder to kneel at Mass due to knee and lower back issues. Inevitably, just when I’m ready to give up, I’ll see someone drag him or herself out of a wheelchair or sitting walker to kneel, and feeling like a slacker, I decide to keep trying.
N.B.: Most churches I’ve attended for Mass are not laid out with tall people in mind. I am a long-legged 6’5″ and have to be careful that my feet do not contact the kneeler of the pew behind me, making it fall with a loud bang, or bump someone’s personal property they have placed under the pew in front of them, ie., the one I’m in.
I’m blessed with 64 year old functional knees. Think it’s from working a desk job most of my life, lucky genes and owning corgis (100+ squats a day).
Don:
There is a brass ladder of several feet called HERO and it works.