+ JMJ Part 3 The Rosary Introduction One dominant aspect of the Catholic Church in the period after the Second Vatican Council is its instability. Practically everything in the expression of the Faith (liturgy, art, places of worship, doctrine) was tainted with what I would describe as an insatiable desire for novelty. Whether it was whitewashing over the ceilings of churches, wreckovations, the open invitation / invasion of the Sanctuary by Men, Woman, Girls, clowns, and even puppets (you can’t make up this stuff). Aside from making the Novus Ordo Missae palatable for our protestant brothers, there has been a trend of minimizing anything else that could serve as a barrier to them. Nothing seems to be excluded from this neurotic compulsion to destroy and obliterate anything that, in essence, represents Catholicism as understood prior to the the end of the Second Vatican Council. This includes devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Mother of God. The latest attempt to mi...
+ JMJ I want to drive home something I mentioned in my last post. Missals - Altar and Laity were precious finds - especially ones from the John XXIII changes in the 60s. Even more so were the Libers - many a time I've been caught with a 1950's version and losing my place when singing the passion as the Synagoga. I remember digging through a store room full of boxes of book and in I found Libers, Besniers (book of latin hymns), Missals. All of these were used well into the 2000's, until the SSPX printed the first version of its own Hymnal. While I miss some of the old hymns, I don't miss the random collections of photo copied pieces. P^3