Author Topic: A Holy Week from a Long Time Ago (Read 1097 times)

RomanCatholic1953 · « **on:** April 03, 2012, 11:12:03 AM »

a) Palm Sunday Procession to the Cathedral in 1964.

b) The Lighted Cross that was a tradition from the 1920's into the
1960's from the evening of Maundy Thursday to before
Daylight on Easter Morning. The Board of Trade Building
in Chicago,Illinois.

c) Long Lines for Confession, and Good Friday Services at
St. Peter's Church in 1961.

d) Holy Tenebrae Service at the Cathedral of the Holy Name
Cathedral in 1953.

e) Good Friday Services at Holy Name Cathedral in 1964.

s2srea · « **Reply #1 on:** April 03, 2012, 12:05:37 PM »

Thank you so much!

RomanCatholic1953 · « **Reply #2 on:** April 03, 2012, 01:33:18 PM »

Quote from: s2srea

Thank you so much!

It is better in Pictures than in words. This is the Church I remembered,
and that is why in all these years the Vatican 2 Novus Ordo Church
looks so foreign to me.

RomanCatholic1953 · « **Reply #3 on:** April 05, 2012, 04:15:08 PM »

Holy week 2012, does not hurt to look in what we lost way back in time.

s2srea · « **Reply #4 on:** April 05, 2012, 07:12:45 PM »

What are your thoughts, RC1953, on the idea that peoples of the 40s and 50s took the Faith for granted; the idea that while outward appearances of the Church and times were good, there was a preparedness to accept what was about to befall them?

RomanCatholic1953 · « **Reply #5 on:** April 05, 2012, 09:14:51 PM »

Quote from: s2srea

What are your thoughts, RC1953, on the idea that peoples of the 40s and 50s took the Faith for granted; the idea that while outward appearances of the Church and times were good, there was a preparedness to accept what was about to befall them?

You are wrong. Catholic Faithful took their Faith seriously. In the photo,
the long lines for Confession, and Good Friday Services is something we
do not see today. That was just one Catholic Church in Chicago. At that
time a Church would be a block or two apart. Every Church were full on
Sunday, and Holy Days.
At that time, the Clergy from Priests, to Bishops took their obligation in
teaching the Faith seriously. John XX111 in his speech before the
Vatican 2 Council was healthy, with no serious hearsay threatening the
Church. Paul V1 said the same thing we he opened the second session.
What happened to change all of this, it was the Council and the
interpretations and ambiguous teachings that lead Priests to Bishops into teaching error and the fallout was the decline of faith among the faithful.
And many have either abandoned and lost the faith.
And the result is that those Churches that were block or 2 apart have
either been closed, demolished or converted to secular and profaned use.
A Priest I once knew would not think of changing pulpits with a
protestant minister as late as 1963 was doing so on a regular basic
starting in 1965.

s2srea · « **Reply #6 on:** April 05, 2012, 09:24:11 PM »

Thank you RC1953. I appreciate you sharing your viewpoint!

RomanCatholic1953 · « **Reply #7 on:** April 05, 2012, 10:24:04 PM »

Quote from: s2srea

Thank you RC1953. I appreciate you sharing your viewpoint!

I lived, and remembered that time. Faith was very strong up until the
end of Vatican 2.
I believe that this small collection of photograpths proves that it was the
case.