Word: vernacular
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...harder to hold the line. There is strong pressure not only from the boys but from other girls, many of whom consider a virgin downright square. The loss of virginity, even resulting in pregnancy, is simply no longer considered an American Tragedy. Says one student of the American vernacular: "The word virgin is taking on a slightly new meaning. It seems acceptable to consider a girl a virgin if she has had experience with only her husband before marriage, or with only one or two steadies." At a girls' college in Connecticut, one coed recently wrote a poem about...
Despite these disappointments. Oberman said that the litur a reforms adopted by the Council were encouraging, and will prove very important." He noted that they brought the Catho. He tradition closer to the Protestant. One of the major changes has been the introduction of vernacular language into parts of the mass...
...discussion on a schema concerning ecumenism that included chapters condemning anti-Semitism and favoring individual freedom of worship for all men. This week, in one of the last acts of the session, Pope Paul will formally promulgate an impressive decree on liturgical changes that authorizes greater use of the vernacular in the Mass and sacraments...
Until last week the council had been characterized more by illusory busyness than by substantial action. Nearly every day the bishops made a bit of news by ratifying some new chapter of the long schema (draft proposal) on liturgy. For example, they authorized greater use of the vernacular in the Mass and the sacraments, and the setting of a fixed date for Easter if secular governments and other Christian bodies agreed. In reality, most of these votes simply rubber-stamped ideas that had been approved in principle at the 1962 session. The rest of the time, the bishops listened...
...Macmillan. He is the fellow who de cided to print the book so that it must be held 90° around from the normal, so that pages must be turned from top to bottom instead of right to left. But this should not deter true lovers of the Vernacular. Dr. Ox is a gasser...