’55 and ’69 Liturgical Reforms Uprooting Oral Custom
It it rains on the third of May, Roodmas, the honey is washed out.
When the twentieth-century liturgical reformers shuffled, eliminated, and renamed Catholic feast days, they weakened the already increasingly frail connection between faith and culture. The results have reduced the influence of the Church in culture and, as a result, in the population; culture provides, after all, a living connection to the Faith for many. One example of the damage to the faith…