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Catholic Treasures New and Old: Traditions, Customs and Practices
Catholic Treasures New and Old Traditions Customs and Practices Author:Joanne Turpin “What is a communion rail?”, “How do you say the rosary?”, “Why do we have statues of the saints?” — Often the response to such questions is “Well this is the way Catholics do things.” Young Catholics and those received into the Church since Vatican II will find answers to their questions about Cath... more »olic things. Long-time Catholics will discover new ways of expressing their faith as well as underlying traditions they’ve taken for granted.
Author Joanne Turpin says, “Traditions are the threads that tie together succeeding generations of believers… During times of transition, such as the three decades since the Second Vatican Council, these threads may become tangled. One generation may hold firmly to traditions that are almost unintelligible to a later generation, which holds just as firmly to new ideas and experiments that have developed in recent years
Catholic Treasures New and Old seeks to untangle those threads once more and show that Catholics have much to cherish in their common heritage.« less