Amy Welborn has has a Substack publication, focused on the changes in the Church after the Second Vatican Council.
So…my experiences? Barely remembered, so sorry about that.
I have no recollection of my First Confession or any confession before high school. Did I go? Was I taken? Probably, but not very often, despite my mother’s faithfulness (complicated, but real). My only useful memory for this matter is related to the changes in 1976 – the change in the rite itself
and then the change to face-to-face confession.
Filmstrips. During Mass. That’s what I remember. Three Sundays in row at the parish, being shown filmstrips about the new rite. … I think that might have been one of the things that finally drove my mother to stay home on Sundays, leaving me to drive to Mass by myself…..
