{"id":38096,"date":"2017-09-28T06:47:04","date_gmt":"2017-09-28T11:47:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/?p=38096"},"modified":"2017-09-30T10:15:05","modified_gmt":"2017-09-30T15:15:05","slug":"blessed-captivity-if-your-mouth-stops-reciting-psalms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2017\/09\/28\/blessed-captivity-if-your-mouth-stops-reciting-psalms\/","title":{"rendered":"Blessed Captivity: &#8220;If your mouth stops chanting psalms&#8230;&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>St. Peter of Damascus wrote the following in the 12th century about losing track of the text of the liturgy (a psalm in this case) because your prayer takes you elsewhere:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[While you are chanting psalmody,] when God\u2019s grace kindles a sense of deep penitence in the heart, you should allow your intellect to be bathed in tears of compunction, even if this means that your mouth stops reciting psalms and your mind is made captive to what St. Isaac the Syrian calls \u2018blessed captivity.\u2019 For now is the time to harvest, not plant. You should therefore persist in such thoughts, so that your heart grows more full of compunction and bears fruit in the form of godly tears.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h5>[&#8220;The Third Stage of Contemplation,&#8221; in <em>Philokalia<\/em>, vol. 3, ed. G.E.H. Palmer, Philip Sherrand, and Kallistos Ware (London: Faber and Faber, 1983), 119.]<\/h5>\n<p>I think Peter is recommending going with your &#8216;stray&#8217; thoughts during the liturgy. No worries when your mouth no longer is singing or reciting the text and your mind is captive to\u00a0other deeply emotional thoughts. Your participation, though apart from the community, is to be praised as &#8220;blessed captivity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The excellent post-Vatican II document <em>Musicam Sacram<\/em> (1967) says at no. 15 that full, conscious, and active participation should be \u201cabove all internal,\u201d but also \u201cmust be\u2026external\u2026to show the internal participation.\u201d To put internal participation first is exactly right.<\/p>\n<p>To be sure, <em>Musicam Sacram <\/em>thinks of internal participation at no. 15 in a more constricted sense than Peter of Damascus \u2013 namely, to \u201cjoin [your] mind to what [you] pronounce or hear.\u201d Peter seems to be speaking not of internal focus on the liturgical text, but losing track of that text for a time as the mind soars elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>There has to be both in the liturgy \u2013 both a constant undercurrent of internal resonance with the liturgical texts and actions, and room for moments of grace when the mind goes elsewhere. It would be too narrow to expect unrelenting rational comprehension of everything in the liturgy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2017\/09\/28\/blessed-captivity-if-your-mouth-stops-reciting-psalms\/monks\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-38166\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-38166 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Monks.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"255\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a>To be honest, my mind goes elsewhere a lot during the liturgy. And not always to the good \u2013 certainly not always with the \u201ctears of compunction\u201d Peter extols (but my brother monks would wonder about if I cried too much during the Office). Perhaps we might distinguish between <em>blessed captivity, <\/em>as Peter of Damascus describes it, and <em>cursed captivity<\/em> (papers to grade, errands to run\u2026).<\/p>\n<p>Now if everyone in the congregation is soaring into <em>blessed captivity<\/em> at the same time, there will be no one left to recite the texts or sing the chants. That would be a problem.<\/p>\n<p>But I wouldn\u2019t worry about it. I think more <em>blessed captivity<\/em> would be a good thing.<\/p>\n<p>What do you think? What is your experience of <em>blessed captivity<\/em>?<\/p>\n<p>awr<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It would be too narrow to expect unrelenting rational comprehension of everything in the liturgy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":38165,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3119,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-plaza-new-ws","category-liturgical-spirituality"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Blessed Captivity: &quot;If your mouth stops chanting psalms...&quot; - Home<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2017\/09\/28\/blessed-captivity-if-your-mouth-stops-reciting-psalms\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Blessed Captivity: &quot;If your mouth stops chanting psalms...&quot; - 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