[BlackVeil]

"big gothic white limestone building, vaulted perfectly for organ - AND THEY TOOK IT OUT!!!!! ... church now looks like the NCCB wants them all to look, with the altar not at the back wall, but a sacrificial platform basically in the middle, and the choir behind ... "

Groan. I feel as if I have seen it. In fact - I have. Not that church, of course, and I am never in America. But in Australia, and France, and Britain, and ... The vandals let loose!

Your mother must be one of that generation who did welcome these changes. I know of only a few people who like it, which makes it such a mystery why it all happened. Some people who were involved in the first years of the reforms, later were appalled, and turned back to the Latin Mass movement.

[Desdemona]

My mother actually was born before WWII. Not much before, but before. She's one of these people who has to change the furniture arrangement twice a year just for the sake of changing. Don't go there.

Yes, we've gone round in circles.