What did Catholics do back in the day when:

[Ridgerunner]

I’ve always had the opposite reaction to incense. It clears my sinuses like Vix vapor rub. When I have a sinus infection I wish I could call a priest and have him come to my home with a thurible and walk around me like the altar at a high mass.

I love the smell of incense. I recall how, when we went to serve and opened the closet where the cassocks were hung, and the drawer where the surplices were, you got that smell just from those articles.

The only time incense ever bothered me, and it was possibly more the heat, was one time at Midnight Mass. Basically every boy in the parish school marched in procession with candles. The girls marched as well. At a point, the boys all went up into the sanctuary, blew out our candles, and stood, kneeled, sat in close rows while the girls went up into the choir loft.

Anyway, I was in the second row on one side of the sanctuary. The boy just ahead of me had been carrying the censer, and he set it just slightly behind him and on his right side. That’s where I was. The smoke billowed up for some time right up the front of my body and into my face. And it was hot.

It was kind of a thing to kneel all the way through the sermon instead of sitting down. The floor was hard tile. That was a tough deal under any circumstance, but with that smoke billowing up, it was very, very tough. But back in those days, we were glad enough to do all of that. One felt honored to be allowed to do any of it.

 

[Phemie]

We certainly had intinction before VC2. Then again abuse is nothing new in my parish. It certainly did not begin with VC2.

As far as I can tell, Communion from the chalice was allowed in limited places in 1965, expanded to everywhere but in specific situations by 1967’s Instruction on Eucharistic Worship from the Sacred Congregation of Rites, extended again by 1970’s ***Sacramentali Communione ***from the Sacred Congregation for Divine Worship but still limiting the times when it could be offered.

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[Don_Ruggero]

As far as I can tell, Communion from the chalice was allowed in limited places in 1965, expanded to everywhere but in specific situations by 1967’s Instruction on Eucharistic Worship from the Sacred Congregation of Rites, extended again by 1970’s ***Sacramentali Communione ***from the Sacred Congregation for Divine Worship but still limiting the times when it could be offered.

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Communion was not distributed at Mass under both species, including by intinction, in the vetus ordo.

It was Sacrosanctum Concilium that declared
*55. That more perfect form of participation in the Mass whereby the faithful, after the priest’s communion, receive the Lord’s body from the same sacrifice, is strongly commended.

The dogmatic principles which were laid down by the Council of Trent remaining intact [40], communion under both kinds may be granted when the bishops think fit, not only to clerics and religious, but also to the laity, in cases to be determined by the Apostolic See, as, for instance, to the newly ordained in the Mass of their sacred ordination, to the newly professed in the Mass of their religious profession, and to the newly baptized in the Mass which follows their baptism.*
It took much, actually, just to get to this text at the Council.

Your key dates are indeed correct…it was 1965, 1967, and 1970.