When you pray, do you prostrate on the ground before Our Lord and Our Lady?

Kneeling, if possible.  My arthritis sometimes prevents it.  A lot depends upon where I am praying.  If driving or riding the subway, obviously, I neither kneel nor prostrate myself.  If in my tent, prostrate is best because I have my Sacred Heart statue hanging in the screen side pocket in front of me.  I once saw a woman prostrate herself in the centre aisle at St. Patrick's Cathedral.  I do not like to pass judgement, but she surely drew undue attention to herself as well as obstructed the aisle.  After several prostrations, an usher told her to desist.  She became angry and left out the side door onto 51 St.  Normally, the prostrate position should be done in private or if the custom, in a group in a religious house.  

Posture during personal prayer,. Keeling, prostration, etc.

When you pray, do you prostrate on the ground before Our Lord and Our Lady?

When I first read the thread title I thought it said

POSTING during personal prayer

Then I thought, "how can one post while kneeling, or especially
when prostrate?  Maybe with a laptop on the floor???  Somehow
that doesn't sound too prayerful!  


Then I noticed it says "Posture" not "Posting".   :read-paper:


Time for a beer.           :cheers:



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 :roll-laugh1:Hey, Neil!  I'm posting while prostrate in bed!  This tablet is the perfect size.

Being Byzantine, I generally stand.  Prostrations are a part of Byzantine practice too.  

The times when I attended the Russian Orthodox Liturgies, the always-standing position during the whole liturgy, was something I admired very much. It is supposed to signify a sign of utter respect to Our Lord. Never saw any prostrations there, though.

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Being Byzantine, I generally stand.  Prostrations are a part of Byzantine practice too.  

The times when I attended the Russian Orthodox Liturgies, the always-standing position during the whole liturgy, was something I admired very much. It is supposed to signify a sign of utter respect to Our Lord. Never saw any prostrations there, though.

In most Byzantine and Orthodox churches, full prostrations are rare.  You make the Sign of the Cross and then touch the floor with your right hand, bending down as far as needed to accomplish this.  In may parishes full prostrations do occur during Lent at the Presanctified Liturgy on Wednesdays and Fridays, and at Stations of the cross in parishes that do that. (Byzantine churches, since the Stations are a Western devotion and would be unheard of among the schismatic Orthodox.)   At my parish this is done by people who are physically able and have the room.  They kneel and than touch their head to the floor kind of like Muslims do.  I have never seen anyone actually lay flat face down on the floor like the priest does in the Latin rite Good Friday Liturgy.  

I would expect the average CI poster to kneel on broken glass in a sauna with a wool suit on(with cut out knees, of course) while praying. 12 hours a day.