[maryz]

. . . like the rosary, the Stations, Novenas, litanies, and other "sacramentals."

I've never encountered any of these but the rosary said during Mass. I remember in the late 50s, a number of people would make Stations before or after Mass. Novenas were totally separate, at night, often followed by Benediction. Unless you mean the little novena cards that people carried in their Missals -- but if they were carrying Missals, they were prepared to follow the Mass. Litanies were always part of something else. (Though in my parish in the late 50s, someone would actually lead a rosary at daily Mass during October, followed by the litany of the BVM.)

[k omalley]

I remember the same as you, maryz. Some people did say the Rosary during Mass but I never saw any other devotions carried out. Novenas were on Monday night. I remember because my boyfriend's(eventually husband) mother always went. In the early 1960's I remember reading responses aloud in Latin so the people were already participating prior to VII.