{"id":48509,"date":"2019-08-05T07:48:53","date_gmt":"2019-08-05T12:48:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/?p=48509"},"modified":"2019-08-14T00:03:12","modified_gmt":"2019-08-14T05:03:12","slug":"pirates-pelagius-and-prayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2019\/08\/05\/pirates-pelagius-and-prayer\/","title":{"rendered":"Pirates, Pelagius and Prayer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I traveled to Georgia last month to visit\nfamily.&nbsp; (See my reflection on last year\u2019s\nvisit <a href=\"https:\/\/nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpraytell.blog%2Findex.php%2F2018%2F02%2F25%2Freceiving-in-the-hand-a-meditation%2F&amp;data=02%7C01%7Ctimothy.brunk%40villanova.edu%7C5ea80d123cf247b9f76d08d718722772%7C765a8de5cf9444f09cafae5bf8cfa366%7C0%7C0%7C637004750877402362&amp;sdata=UT7p50uolYjlDBZs0XjHzq2dsqBbstADLSGNvbOhShQ%3D&amp;reserved=0\">here.<\/a>)&nbsp; This time around, the visit included a pirate\ngame with my pre-school nephews Leo, Simon (twins), and Perry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Simon: Uncle Tim, say \u201cThere are no\npirates in this house.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Me: I am sure glad that there are no\npirates in this house.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Simon and Leo: ARRR!!&nbsp; We\u2019re pirates . . . with CLAWS!!!!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Me: Ah!! Pirates!!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[The two of them climb all over me as I am\nsitting in a chair, pretending to attack me with their claws.&nbsp; Perry, the youngest, approaches.]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Perry [taking my hand]: I have some help\nfor you, Uncle Tim.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[Perry lets go.&nbsp; Simon and Leo back off.]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Leo: Uncle Tim, say \u201cThere are no pirates\nin this house.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Me: Wow, I am sure glad that there are no\nscary pirates in this house.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Simon and Leo: ARRR!!&nbsp; We\u2019re pirates . . . with CLAWS!!!!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Me: Ah!! Pirates!!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[The two of them climb all over me,\npretending to attack me with their claws.&nbsp;\nPerry, the youngest, approaches.]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Perry [taking my hand]: I have some help\nfor you, Uncle Tim.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[Perry lets go.&nbsp; Leo and Simon back off.]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The cycle repeats.&nbsp; And repeats.&nbsp;\nAnd repeats.&nbsp; In fact, it had a\ndecidedly ritual quality, including the opening declaration about the absence\nof pirates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One might reflect on how this playing\ninvolved a turning of the tables: the pre-school twins exercising a kind of\npower over their middle-aged uncle, a power they do not possess in the real\nworld. &nbsp;Likewise, Perry had his chance to\ncome to the aid of his uncle in a reversal of the ways in which it is usually\nadults who come to the assistance of little children in matters big and small.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Perry picked up on something in the first\niteration of this ritual, namely, that it was without closure or resolution.&nbsp; Hence, his offer of aid was both an act of\nempowerment on his part and at some level a way to conclude the play (and keep\nit going).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One might also take reflections in an\nanti-Pelagian vein.&nbsp; In this play, I\nneeded Perry\u2019s help.&nbsp; More to the point,\nI needed it repeatedly because the pirates\u2014with their claws\u2014made many ritual\nreturns to a house that was supposedly pirate-free.&nbsp; The repeated help Perry offered to me by\nholding my hand in this ritualized play led me to think about the lure of\nPelagianism and the ritualized way in which Christian worshipers acknowledge\ntheir need for divine help.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When Christians assemble for worship, we have\nritual reminders that we live in a world with pirates.&nbsp; We find these reminders in our penitential\nrites, in the denunciations we hear from Scripture, in our anaphoras, and so\nforth.&nbsp; The pirate may be the death that\nawaits each of us, the vanity and arrogance that can lurk within us, the\nneighbor with a short fuse.&nbsp; The pirate\u2019s\npresence is painfully obvious in a world beset with racism and xenophobia,\ninjustice to laborers.&nbsp; Sin\u2014personal and\nsocial\u2014is a pirate with claws.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Repeatedly, Christians gather at the Lord\u2019s\ninvitation to be reminded that God has \u201csome help\u201d for us.&nbsp; In the full sense of anamnesis, this\nreminder, caught up in prayer, is no mere recall but the actual making present\nof this help, this grace.&nbsp; When we say, \u201cThere\nare no pirates in this house\u201d (cf. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=1+john+1%3A8&amp;version=NRSVCE\">1 John 1:8<\/a>) we run the risk\nof denying sin in ourselves and in our world and the risk of thinking that our\nmastery is such that there might as well be no pirates in the house because any\npossible pirates will be no match for our own skills and talents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Whatever else may be happening in\nChristian worship, God, like Perry, is there to say, \u201cI have some help for you.\u201d&nbsp; In the end, this divine help overcomes all\nthe pirates (cf. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=John+1:5&amp;version=NRSVCE\">John 1:5<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Readers unfamiliar with Pelagianism can go <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vatican.va\/roman_curia\/congregations\/cfaith\/documents\/rc_con_cfaith_doc_20180222_placuit-deo_en.html\">here.<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whatever else may be happening in Christian worship, God is there to say, \u201cI have some help for 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