Holy Week memories from a Long Time Ago.

The picture of all the people waiting for confession is very inspiring!

Thanks for those.

I love to see those old pictures.  I see a couple of kerchiefs but no veils.  Where did the SSPX women get the idea veils were traditional in North America?
I know white veils were worn at bull fights in Spain, and the black veils were worn to be alluring: but I never saw a veil in the US until Jackie Kennedy wore one at her husbands funeral.

The picture of the confession line depressed me.

At my age, I still remember how things used to look like in the
Roman Catholic Church.
The so called conciliar church down the street is of an different
ecclesiology than I was brought up in the 1950's and early 1960's.
What a strange world we live in now compared to a half of an
century ago, that has past by in a blink of an eye for me.

Why did the line for confession depress you?

Catholic's were more aware of their sins at that time. The Clergy were
also were more aware of sin.

Catholic's were more aware of the existence of Hell.

In most cases at that time, fire and brimstone sermons that made
people more aware of their sins, and the punishments of the hereafter.

This was the constant teaching of the Church from the Last Supper to
when the teachings of Vatican 2 were implemented starting in 1965.

In the 1980's when I attended a NO parish and went to Confession.
I found out what were always considered sins before Vatican 2 are
now no longer sins.
That was from a Priest who was ordained in 1940.

Even at that time, only a few would showed up to the confessional, to
confessed their sins.

Why did the line for confession depress you?

Because now there would never be such a line.

, i understand now what you meant, and i agree wholeheartedly.  i learned     recently, first confessions in my novus ordo parish, the children are advised to tell three sins......   :surprised:

I remember when I attended Catholic Parochial School from 1954 to
1962, we were all lined up as a class and went to the Church and
confessed our sins at lease once a month.
What happens if a NO child at the age of reason committed 100 sins but was obliged by those in charge to confess three or four mortal sins  just to get
the line moving a little faster.
When I went to confession as a class group we were to confess our venial
sins no matter how trivial.
According to the book "Way of Divine Love" by Sister Josefa Menendez,
she saw a 10 year old child in hell, and was damned for reading bad books
in the 1920's.
Bad books in the 1920's are nothing compared to the books today. The
children get a dose of it when they have to go through mandatory sex
education even in so called Catholic Schools, that are now a far cry from
my day.

Thank you for this Post!  My first Holy Eucharist was 1961.  When we had processions for the May Crowning, procession was so long with over 250 children,that we could not move.  So, we had to extend the procession line to outside the church.  Our church is very large, next to cathedral. (St. Peter and Paul in Huntington, IN which can be seen if googled).  Now you don't see any procession.  I think that the people were still in hope to hear about the 3rd secret and it just never came.  Our church was just packed and the balcony as well.  People had such devotion for Our Lady.  Since Vat. II she is not desired.  It just makes you cry!  We had the Blue Army going door to door like St Vincent de Paul did, to see that the people had access to the sacraments.  We had Rosary Sodalities that cared for funerals with meals for the families.  That was when we had 7 - 12 children to a family as the norm.  I never heard complaining.  The women just did it.  Oh, those were the days!