SO WHAT'S CHANGED SINCE THE FIFTIES?

Yesterday at Mass we heard that in the ‘50s it was a mortal sin not to go to Mass on Sunday, and you had to go to confession before you could receive Communion again.

Okay. In the ‘50s the third commandment was the same as it is now: “Remember that thou keep holy the sabbath day.”

In the ‘50s the Catechism of the Catholic Church said, presumably, something like “on Sundays the faithful are bound to participate in the Mass”, because that’s what the Catechism says now.

The Catechism says further that “those who deliberately fail in this obligation commit a grave sin”.

And it says that “the Eucharist is not ordered to the forgiveness of mortal sins – that is proper to the sacrament of Reconciliation (Confession). The Eucharist is properly the sacrament of those who are in full communion with the Church.”

SO WHAT’S CHANGED?