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It's a real shame, but (as we were just saying at choir practice Wednesday night) in the 70s the Church jettisoned all the really neat stuff that shouted, "Hey! We're Catholic and It's Awesome!"

I was raised Episcopalian, and even the 'low church' crowd kept a lot of the ceremony and music and customs that the Catholics seemed to just jettison overnight. When I first converted, our parish had the happy-clappy pop music, and I had actually sung more Latin as an Episcopalian. But now that we have a real music director who loves Gregorian chant and Renaissance polyphony, the place sounds Catholic again. We even have incense!

All the Catholic Stuff is coming back now, thanks to Pope Emeritus BXVI's efforts, and I think it's great.