Was there a specific Sunday in the 1960's when the OF Mass replaced the EF Mass uniformly across the US?

[Solomonson]

Was there a specific Sunday in the 1960’s when the OF Mass replaced the EF Mass uniformly across the US?

We are going to celebrate a special EF Mass at my parish and I’m wondering exactly how long it has been? Thank you.

 

[corsair]

No specific Sunday, as we transitioned via the 1965 missal. After 1966, the changes started almost every Sunday. Then in the early part of 1970 we woke up and wondered what had happened.

The guitars and hippies began to appear in 1967-69 at our little rural parish.

I often look back on those days and wonder; how did I ever remain a Catholic?

I thank God every day for our FSSP parish. :extrahappy:

 

[edwest2]

No specific Sunday, as we transitioned via the 1965 missal. After 1966, the changes started almost every Sunday. Then in the early part of 1970 we woke up and wondered what had happened.

The guitars and hippies began to appear in 1967-69 at our little rural parish.

I often look back on those days and wonder; how did I ever remain a Catholic?

I thank God every day for our FSSP parish. :extrahappy:

The radicals hated the Church and wanted to change it. I was caught up in the Hippie atmosphere briefly but God pulled me right back. But singing “Let It Be” by the Beatles in Church in the 1970s told me the wolves were there.

Ed

 

[joeybaggz]

The radicals hated the Church and wanted to change it. I was caught up in the Hippie atmosphere briefly but God pulled me right back. But singing “Let It Be” by the Beatles in Church in the 1970s told me the wolves were there.

Ed

You know Ed, an interesting post would be if all of us boomers who were in their teens, twenties, and even thirties would post their specific memories of the idiocy of the post Vatican II period and how it applied to the liturgy and other things Catholic.

Me, I remember tie-dyed vestments, interpretive dance on the altar during Mass, and “hymns” like “Abraham, Martin, and John” and “Imagine.” I even remember one mass where at the petitions they asked (and this is the G-D honest truth) the invocation of “St. John F. Kennedy” That’s when I realized that people in the sacristy had drunk the kool-aid.:whacky::whackadoo:

oh, and sorry if anyone interprets this as my trying to hijack the thread. I’d start a thread of my own, but I don’t know how.

Shalom

 

[Oneofthewomen]

November 30, 1969, the First Sunday of Advent. For the whole Church, not just the US.

w2.vatican.va/content/paul-vi/en/apost_constitutions/documents/hf_p-vi_apc_19690403_missale-romanum.html

Was there a specific Sunday in the 1960’s when the OF Mass replaced the EF Mass uniformly across the US?

We are going to celebrate a special EF Mass at my parish and I’m wondering exactly how long it has been? Thank you.

 

[FabiusMaximus]

No specific Sunday, as we transitioned via the 1965 missal. After 1966, the changes started almost every Sunday. Then in the early part of 1970 we woke up and wondered what had happened.

The guitars and hippies began to appear in 1967-69 at our little rural parish.

I often look back on those days and wonder; how did I ever remain a Catholic?

I thank God every day for our FSSP parish. :extrahappy:

Now did these abuses come into vogue immediately once the Missal revisions were implemented?

 

[corsair]

It varied from diocese to diocese. Here in liberal pacific northwest, we had an Archbishop that was over the top in pushing us to be “hip”. He even argued with a friend of mine and told him that the Catholic church was communism in it’s pure form.

I was there when one night some folks and the priest torn out the hand made High Altar and hauled it to the county dump (it had been built by the German immigrants almost 100 years before). Then they burned it. Later in the week they installed orange carpeting and put up the corpus without the crucifix. The body of Christ was suspended from wires. And, yes there was “Kumbaya” being sung. And no one complained. The same priest found out I periodically attended a Latin Mass celebrated by a retire priest. He told me I was going to hell (that Latin was forbidden)

The parish just south of us saw their priest appear dressed in a clowns costume at Mass.
Even the local paper had a comment about that one.

The wife and I taught CCD classes. We spent half of the time trying to convince the young ones to try to forgive Father’s apparent disdain of them.

But we stayed Catholics (somehow). so that is the conditions that our 7 kids were raised in. Now only 2 of them are Catholics. They tossed in the towel as soon as they graduated from high school.

Pray for them.

 

[PaulfromIowa]

November 30, 1969, the First Sunday of Advent. For the whole Church, not just the US.

w2.vatican.va/content/paul-vi/en/apost_constitutions/documents/hf_p-vi_apc_19690403_missale-romanum.html

However, according to the Wikipedia article, the new Missal was not actually published until 1970. Some liturgical changes, the new Eucharistic Prayers, the use of vernacular languages, were approved before this date.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_of_Paul_VI

 

[Pat_Albertson]

My memories of the transition are foggy at best. I do remember a time when I was very young that the mass was said in Latin. And, I also remember that by the time I was an alter boy, the mass was in English. I have vague memories of being lectured about the switch from the old Latin mass to the new English one, but I remember neither the date nor the content of those lectures.

I took Latin in high school. I did pretty well in my first year, but not so well in my second. I run into more Latin now as I ramble around the internet than I did back in the day. I also have much more of an appreciation for Latin now than I did back then.