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Processions for Our Lady, for the May Crowning.  Our processions in 1961 were so long that they had us outside as well as inside going up and down 3 aisles  and that was over 300 children.  Our church was not  considered a cathedral, but it was close enough in size.

Also the need for the Sacred Heart Society.  It was for those who were alcoholics and such.  There were rules for membership, receiving the sacraments as often as possible.

Then there was the Blue Army who would go door-to-door making sure that all who were catholic, had access to the sacraments.  St. Vincent De Paul did this.

In our parish we had the Parish Pilgrim Statue, which was of Our Lady of Fatima. Every week the priest would annnounce whose home it would be in, and the neighbouring pashishioners would gather each evening at that home. Each Sunday evening She would be delivered to the next home. Those were very neighbourly times. Sigh!

We had the Holy Name Society for the men, who would all sit up the front of the Church at 7am Mass one Sunday each month and after Mass they had special prayers.  

For the women there was the Sacred Heart Sodality (also once a month) and for us older girls there was the Children. We would wear lovely blue cloaks and veils, all the way from home. We weren't ashamed to walk in public in them. For the younger girls (who had made their first Holy Communion) there was a similar group who wore a red cloak, but sadly I can't remember what we were called or devoted to. Can anyone help me there?

I still have my children of Mary cloak and my veil.

Then there were the Eucharistic processions. I was a flower strewer. That was very special because we used to walk ahead of the Blessed Sacrament and throw our rose petals as a carpet for Him to walk on.

We had such a rich and wonderful upbringing, sadly, very sadly all destroyed by Vatican to and its henchmen.  

Edit.

 for us older girls there was the Children of Mary

The greatest devotion that has been lost is the Stations of the Cross.

This is the most highly indulgenced devotion the church has ever had. Yes even higher than the rosary, which makes perfect sense as our salvation was purchased with Christ's Passion.

A docuмent published by the Bishop of New York dated 1904  states that there are SO MANY Plenary Indulgences attached to the Stations that priests are forbidden to inumerate them.  The docuмent further states that we should keep one for ourselves and give the rest to the souls  in Purgatory.
Every Pope (before VII) confirmed and/or increased these indulgences.

As children we would make the stations after morning Mass.  There are NO PRAYERS REQUIRED when
made in the church where they have been canonically erected.  All that is required is the act of contrition before you walk the stations meditating on the passion.  They can be made in less than 2 minutes.  Sound irreverant?  Don't blame me.  This is the instruction in every Raccolta ever printed in English by the Popes.!

Remember  saints have told us that after the Ascension, Mary would walk the way of the passion with St. John.  Why have we stopped?? Are we too embarrassed? People always say they don't want to disturb others praying after Mass.  Lousy excuse.  We're Catholics - we should start acting like it.

The stations were always on Spiritual Bouquets but are now blaringly absent.
SSPX even discontinues them in Lent on the First Friday. [How about on Ash Wednesday?]

The easiest devotion carries the most graces.  Let's revive it.

Before VII  all Catholics were Passionists.....now they've  turned into Resurrectionists

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Readers who have a church to go to where the stations are canonically erected ought to take advantage of that, because there are a lot of Catholics today who have no such place to go to. When a traveling priest visits for his occasional Mass, it's often in a home or a rented hall, where a bishop has not blessed stations.