This is an fascinaing reference material - twenty-plus years of church bulletins. You can read more about it here, where I discovered it.
I'm a sucker for boundaries, for attempting to find out exactly at what point the past becomes "a foreign country".
This bulletin from the 1958 is an example of something you'd never see today (click for enlargement purposes)!
And it just wasn't giving money; here's a plea to attend one weekday Mass that week:
By 1967 there are inserts against abortion and information about the need to support Catholic schools. From 1970 on the kiss of peace:
By 1975, we have the basic smell & shape and of the current bulletin: businesslike, somewhat impersonal (perhaps due to an increase in size of the parish), non-hectoring and non-inspirational.
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