War Stories

[JustaServant]

I was but a lad when many of the changes took place in the Church with Vatican 2. Can anyone hear tell me what it was like in those early days (1960-1980)?
Thank you.

 

[karow]

I was but a lad when many of the changes took place in the Church with Vatican 2. Can anyone hear tell me what it was like in those early days (1960-1980)?
Thank you.

I was a daily mass attending, Catholic school kid from 1966-78. Here’s what I remember:

1. being giddy because I no longer had to pin a Kleenex to my head if I forgot my chapel cap;
2. masses in new and different places like the on the football field and in the gymnasium before big games and in a corn field during harvest time;
3. receiving lots of instruction about how to receive the Eucharist in my hands;
4. playing the tambourine during mass
5. practicing liturgical dances with my friends after school and the great pride we took in performing them during Sunday masses. I remember dancing with ribbons on sticks and bouquets of flowers;
6. being astounded when our parish got a newly-minted priest in, what? 1971 or ‘72, and him telling us kids we could call him Fr. David! I still remember the sisters’ frowns of disapproval over that ;
7. The sister’s habits gradually getting lighter (black to grey) and shorter (floor to calf length);
8. my grandparents talking about how unusual it was that they could understand everything the priest was saying during mass.

 

[laszlo]

I was but a lad when many of the changes took place in the Church with Vatican 2. Can anyone hear tell me what it was like in those early days (1960-1980)?
Thank you.

Before the change every message related to religion had to be submitted to the diocesan censor for approval.

Such a group like this which allow messages w/o previous approval would be set to the index, and forbidden to read by Catholics.