Nostalgic Images

Got out the ol' Peoples Mass Book, published in 1970:

Yup there's that iconic cover from the heady days of the late '60s and early '70s when "Peoples" was a good word because, after all, there was "The Peoples Republic of China" and "Peoples Republic of North Korea" and Communism was hot back then.

I remember like it was yeserday, holding that book before Mass while, curiously, never summoning sufficient curiosity to ask anybody: "Hey, why are there robots on this cover?"

But I tease the Peoples Mass Book. You can't judge a book by its cover and there were are many fine songs in there including this one:



"Didst" and "Thy" are, sadly, gone from today's Mass books. Reverence is out, casualness in, both in terms of what we wear to Mass and what we sing.

Perhaps part of my lack of curiosity about the cover was that the images inside were far stranger:



<- An abstract image, sort of Crayola-ish. A rorschach test? I see the head of a golf club in there. Probably a 3-wood. What do you see? How does it make you feel? Makes me feel like hitting the links!

I was glad to get the book for a quarter at the OSU book sale, because how else could I have gotten the words to Lord, Who At Your First Eucharist Didst Pray so inexpensively?