Baby Boomers and the Church

[the_phoenix]

Oh, yeah, writing lines was a far worse punishment! Five hundred lines - I will not talk in class.

Hmmmm, my mother used to assign my sister and I writing lines as punishment … And I’ve been known to write out the punishment in advance, heh …

Mom once tried assigning me an entire essay as a punishment. That was a one-time-only thing as soon as she discovered how much I liked creative writing …

~~ the phoenix

 

[brotherhrolf]

I have chuckled over some of the recent comments. This thread started out with how baby boomers have wrecked the church. Lo, you come to find out that my assertions were pretty much spot on. Most of us seem to have loved the Church in which we grew up and accepted what happened out of obedience to the magisterium. I am not now nor have I ever been with my more liberal brothers and sisters…although I do respect their desire to fully embrace the change. But the rest of us kinda got left behind.

Do I absolutely have to have the TLM? No. What I want is a return to the reverence that I knew as a child. Starting with Habbakuk:

“But the Lord is in his holy temple: let all the earth keep silence before him”, Before Mass is not Social Hour. That’s after Mass and in the parish hall.

Get rid of the guitars, drums, hand waving, clapping…all the liturgical abuses we’ve read about and seen. The Holy Father is setting the example.

A return to reverence. It’s not about us; it’s about Him.

 

[BamaRider]

There are 79 millioin baby boomers in the country, and politically were pretty much split 50-50, but it seemed most of our more counter culture brethern were in the Church, and took it another direction.

Like rolf, I endured all the stuff my cousins were trying to do. Ours was a lonely voice for many years LOL, but now things are changing, and the door swings back. The Holy Spirit always has a way of looking out for us.

Some stuff the boomers did was the right thing to do, and some came outta left field, but I never entertained the notion of going somewhere else. Always best to work from within, and not leave out in a “hissy fit”, as my grandma use to say.