Deep into devotions, Some Catholic youths adopt, adapt more traditional rituals

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Deep into devotions
Some Catholic youths adopt, adapt more traditional rituals

Sociologists haven’t identified a conservative shift among Catholic youth as a whole, but those who work in Catholic youth ministries say that the style of devotion is changing for many of the most committed Roman Catholic youth.

In some ways, that style resembles their grandparents’ piety more than their parents’.

They’re recapturing some traditional devotions that faded after the Second Vatican Council in the 1960s, which saw American Catholics switch from Latin to English, adopt guitar Masses and other new worship styles, increase the role of lay ministers and de-emphasize the Virgin Mary and the saints.

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Deep into devotions
Some Catholic youths adopt, adapt more traditional rituals

Sociologists haven’t identified a conservative shift among Catholic youth as a whole, but those who work in Catholic youth ministries say that the style of devotion is changing for many of the most committed Roman Catholic youth.

In some ways, that style resembles their grandparents’ piety more than their parents’.

They’re recapturing some traditional devotions that faded after the Second Vatican Council in the 1960s, which saw American Catholics switch from Latin to English, adopt guitar Masses and other new worship styles, increase the role of lay ministers and de
-emphasize the Virgin Mary and the saints.

more

This reminds me of how jazzed the president of the high school I work at was after meeting with the student council. He was jazzed about the traditional they are. One of the student’s gave the best explanation of how a church/chapel should be. He said, “I want to fell insignificant when I’m in it.”