Prayer question for Catholics who attended grammar school in the 1950s and earlier

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I had IHM sisters (who really were a little nuts) . My dad had Sisters of Mercy and I believe St. Joseph when he was young and said they were nice and he couldn’t believe what my brother and I would tell him about the IHMs.

Vat. II had just started when I graduated 8th grade and habits hadn’t changed yet. Of course by the 70’s, the IHM order imploded.
 
English prayers, at school and home. Same for the Rosary. Latin prayers and hymns at Mass.

Grew up in Pittsburgh.
 
I went to a Catholic grade school in the 50s and early 60s. We always prayed the rosary in English, never Latin.
 
I was in elementary school in the fifties and we learned all our prayers in English.
 
I started Catholic grade school in 1952. None of us learned the Our Father in Latin and only sang the Hail Mary in Latin. And although I took Latin and Greek in high school, and Latin in the first two years of college (seminary), no one I knew prayed the rosary in Latin.

I am 5th generation Oregonian. My parents never learned Latin in high school (my dad did not finish high school, but went to work in the forests setting chockers at age 14). My grandparents knew no Latin, but knew some Dutch; my great grandparents knew dutch; and my great-great grandparents spoke Dutch as their native language, and learned some English.
 
Catholic grade school in the 40’s and 50’s in northeast Ohio. Prayed in school and at home totally in English. Memorized all the Latin prayers necessary to be an “altar boy” but had no idea what I was reciting except perhaps for the Confiteor which we also learned in English. And the entire Mass of course was in Latin.
 
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All our prayers were in English, at Catholic school and at home. The Mass was in Latin and we did sing some Latin hymns from the Laudate hymnal as well as English hymns. This was in the KC metro area in Kansas.
 
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