[Magdalen] A quarter century...

[Lynn Ronkainen]

My biggest memory of 'cattle call' mentality regarding church was filling 
the parking lot, bumper to bumper, side to side. Once you got there unless 
you were the first (row) or the last, you were there to stay until Mass let 
out and the lot started emptying...  and M-F said parking lot, a huge block 
of asphalt, was the 'playground'... now, I know things have changed and 
there are trees, medians, 'stripes'!! even, and play ground equipment.... 
but NOT in the '(19)60s.

Lynn

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From: "Scott Knitter" <scottknitter at gmail.com>
Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2015 5:58 PM
To: "Magdalen at herberthouse.org" <magdalen at herberthouse.org>
Subject: Re: [Magdalen] A quarter century...

> On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 4:42 PM, Roger Stokes 
> <roger.stokes65 at btinternet.com
>> wrote:
>
>> I think a crucial point here is that it is the Extraordinary Rite,
>> something unusual and/or special, rather than the regular rite said every
>> hour on the hour on Sundays which the faithful were expected to hear each
>> week. People seek it out so it has to be something meaningful for them,
>> which means allowing more time and solemnity in the celebration.
>
>
> I find it fascinating sometimes to find an archived newspaper online that
> has a page of church services adverts; the usual schedule in an urban RC
> church was something like Low Masses at 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10, and High
> Mass at 11. My grandmother's parish in Milwaukee had that schedule PLUS 
> Low
> Masses on the HALF-hour in the basement (temporary-looking altar setup and
> a sea of noisy metal folding chairs...kneel on the floor). So 12 to 14
> Masses every Sunday. I do remember it being a bit of a cattle call, with
> two great streams of people slowly making their way into and out of the
> building pretty much continuously. This had to be about 1964-65 when major
> liturgical change was just getting under way, and Milwaukee seemed to be
> behind the curve compared to our Detroit-area parish.
>
>
> -- 
> Scott R. Knitter
> Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA