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BamaRider
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Born in 1955 I wear the label “baby boomer” with a tepid attitude. My generation pushed for the leaglization of abortion, feminism, the pill, drugs, quickie divorce, feels good do it, and the list goes on.
My early years saw me in the traditional ways. But in 6th grade a wind blew through our school and Church, and now I was attending Mass with the altar facing me, and I could understand what was actually going on. I liked it.
The changes came so fast the nuns at Christ The King couldn’t keep up, and my situation was not unique. Alot was going on I wasn’t able to comprehend. It was only years later, when I could sit back, could I get a grasp on things.
I would not go back to all the old ways, but I’m glad to see a return to sanity, as the pendelum swings back the other way. Rogue parishes are being called out by the Faithful, and our children are now asking questions about the Faith that was handed down to the baby boomer. My son often asks me about such things as Mass on First Friday, when Lent was really Lent, the solemnity of Midnight Mass.
What we are seeing in this years presdential elections, is also going on in the Church. This will be the last election we can influence. It is the last gasp of many of the counter culture baby boomers, to grab the country and mold it into what they feel it should be, while a equal number on the other side, try to keep that from happening. The Clintons are prime examples. Set aside what you feel about them and for a moment watch what is happening. Obama is new, and his followers are challenging the Democrat baby boomers for control of the party. Many of his followers were to young to know about the 90s and frankly don’t care. Ancient history to them. Who wins is yet to be determined.
As for me, I look back on my days in the Traditional Church and I’m thankful. It is why today I am mostly conservative in ways of the Church. I recall the dedicated people who invested so much into me. The Sisters of Christ The King gave me their all. They had no families, or outside interests. The devoted their lives to making sure the Faith was handed down, in the way they received it.
I left Christ the King in the 8th grade. I never had more passionate, competent teachers then the nuns at the CTK. Not in public school, college, and 26 years of EMS and Fire Dept instructors.
I was a mediocre student at best. But I NEVER disrepected them. I held them in such awe. They commanded our attention in their full habits and dress, and when they taught the catechism you listened. They told us the stories from the Bible, and the lives of the Saints. I learned about the catacombs of Rome, the heroism of the Crusaders that saved Europe, and the perils of bringing the Faith to the New World, all from a a tiny dimunitive nun, that might’ve weighed 90 lbs, but dominated a room like a linebacker.
Here is the respect the Sisters at Christ The King received- The conveant was a quarter mile walk across the playground from the school. When a Sister left the school, carrying her book bag or other material, it was understood a young boy would leave the ballgame or whatever he was doing and carry that Sister’s bag to the conevant. Nobody ever told us that, we just knew it. You learned it from the older boys when you were in the first grade. You saw it done, and you KNEW oneday it would be the YOUR responsiblity. A Sister carrying her book bad was not allowed.
We respected our school and property. It was clean and neat. I mean you never even thought about dropping paper on the playground. The Sisters taught us not only how be good Catholics but good citizens, funny how those things go hand in hand.
What happened to us? (baby boomers) Our parents came through the Great Depression and WWII. They knew hard times, and like every generation, wanted it better for their kids. But it was a new and rich America, and they over compensated many of us. Millions of Baby Boomers, grew up with a sense of entitlement, we’ve had it our way all our lives, and now we are losing power in many places and we dont’t like it. LOL
The Holy Father has seen fit to allow our Traditions to come back, and I’m sure that bothers some Bishops. I prefer the Ordus Mass, but I never saw anything wrong with a guy that wanted to attend a Latin Rite, and couldn’t understand why it was villified by so many.
But things always balance themselves out. Sometimes it just takes a while. The Baby Boomer leadership will soon be handing the reigns over to those ordained in the 80s and 90s, who view the 60s and 70s like I do the Roaring 20s. History.
Younger leadership wants to preserve our traditions, before they are lost forever, and that is a good thing.
My early years saw me in the traditional ways. But in 6th grade a wind blew through our school and Church, and now I was attending Mass with the altar facing me, and I could understand what was actually going on. I liked it.
The changes came so fast the nuns at Christ The King couldn’t keep up, and my situation was not unique. Alot was going on I wasn’t able to comprehend. It was only years later, when I could sit back, could I get a grasp on things.
I would not go back to all the old ways, but I’m glad to see a return to sanity, as the pendelum swings back the other way. Rogue parishes are being called out by the Faithful, and our children are now asking questions about the Faith that was handed down to the baby boomer. My son often asks me about such things as Mass on First Friday, when Lent was really Lent, the solemnity of Midnight Mass.
What we are seeing in this years presdential elections, is also going on in the Church. This will be the last election we can influence. It is the last gasp of many of the counter culture baby boomers, to grab the country and mold it into what they feel it should be, while a equal number on the other side, try to keep that from happening. The Clintons are prime examples. Set aside what you feel about them and for a moment watch what is happening. Obama is new, and his followers are challenging the Democrat baby boomers for control of the party. Many of his followers were to young to know about the 90s and frankly don’t care. Ancient history to them. Who wins is yet to be determined.
As for me, I look back on my days in the Traditional Church and I’m thankful. It is why today I am mostly conservative in ways of the Church. I recall the dedicated people who invested so much into me. The Sisters of Christ The King gave me their all. They had no families, or outside interests. The devoted their lives to making sure the Faith was handed down, in the way they received it.
I left Christ the King in the 8th grade. I never had more passionate, competent teachers then the nuns at the CTK. Not in public school, college, and 26 years of EMS and Fire Dept instructors.
I was a mediocre student at best. But I NEVER disrepected them. I held them in such awe. They commanded our attention in their full habits and dress, and when they taught the catechism you listened. They told us the stories from the Bible, and the lives of the Saints. I learned about the catacombs of Rome, the heroism of the Crusaders that saved Europe, and the perils of bringing the Faith to the New World, all from a a tiny dimunitive nun, that might’ve weighed 90 lbs, but dominated a room like a linebacker.
Here is the respect the Sisters at Christ The King received- The conveant was a quarter mile walk across the playground from the school. When a Sister left the school, carrying her book bag or other material, it was understood a young boy would leave the ballgame or whatever he was doing and carry that Sister’s bag to the conevant. Nobody ever told us that, we just knew it. You learned it from the older boys when you were in the first grade. You saw it done, and you KNEW oneday it would be the YOUR responsiblity. A Sister carrying her book bad was not allowed.
We respected our school and property. It was clean and neat. I mean you never even thought about dropping paper on the playground. The Sisters taught us not only how be good Catholics but good citizens, funny how those things go hand in hand.
What happened to us? (baby boomers) Our parents came through the Great Depression and WWII. They knew hard times, and like every generation, wanted it better for their kids. But it was a new and rich America, and they over compensated many of us. Millions of Baby Boomers, grew up with a sense of entitlement, we’ve had it our way all our lives, and now we are losing power in many places and we dont’t like it. LOL
The Holy Father has seen fit to allow our Traditions to come back, and I’m sure that bothers some Bishops. I prefer the Ordus Mass, but I never saw anything wrong with a guy that wanted to attend a Latin Rite, and couldn’t understand why it was villified by so many.
But things always balance themselves out. Sometimes it just takes a while. The Baby Boomer leadership will soon be handing the reigns over to those ordained in the 80s and 90s, who view the 60s and 70s like I do the Roaring 20s. History.
Younger leadership wants to preserve our traditions, before they are lost forever, and that is a good thing.
) … one way in which my mother taught religion “in the moment” was on the way home in the car after we’d heard a sermon given by a liberal priest. “Okay,” she’d ask, “What did the priest say that went against Church teaching, and what should he have said instead?”
Reverence for all!