Deep Six the Sixties

Are you a Catholic liturgist, musician, parish catechist, etc that was part of the sixties generation? Do you look fondly on change for change sake and the exciting climate that theology had gone gonzo and that anything could happen, yet wonder if that wasn’t right? Do you still feel like you want to "stick it to the man" even though you’re "the man" now? That you love Woodstock and the Woodstock Theological Center though you are starting to think that it is more nostalgia then something rational? Are you starting to doubt that progress is a synonym for change and that it might actually need to be measured by some objective standard? Are you actually finding that the do-it-yourself Mass is not quite as helpful to your prayer life that you would have expected? Finally, you want to leave the sixties philosophy behind you, though you still consider it might be a Haight-Ashbury crime to do so?

These feelings are really scary especially when those you labled as "conservative" Catholic are starting to make sense. But you are not alone! There are others that feel these same anxieties. If you experience these symptoms you might be suffering from Liturgical Sixties Disenchantment (LSD). With LSD you might consider doing things like actually reading the documents of Vatican II or even worse the Church’s liturgical documents, but yet you start to flashback to Masses with people sitting around the altar with guitars singing Kumbaya. When you move in a direction where you begin agreeing with the teaching authority of the Church, but are prevented from moving in that direction because of flashbacks to your previous anti-authority and ageism to anything before 1960 – you just might be experiencing LSD. If you now prefer the pipe organ to several guitarists strumming the same old chords in unison, then no doubt you have LSD. Now you just want to "Turn on" Gregorian Chant, "Tune In" to the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass properly celebrated and to "Drop out" of your National Catholic Reporter subscription. You might ask how do you drop LSD and get rid of this condition?

Previously this was a difficult process and those who have tried to go cold turkey have had varying levels of success. Syrupy and banal modern Catholic hymns are like a siren’s call continuing bringing you to liturgical shipwrecks crying "Here I am, Lord!" The good news is that you are not on your own anymore!

Introducing Sixtiesdote the antidote to the sixties? Sixtiesdote is guaranteed to cure your addiction to felt banners or your money back! Latin will no longer give you a rash and you can now say "Long live Pope Benedict XVI" and actually mean it! Just one tablet a day and you will be on your way to finding that rubrics are your friends! You will actually start to be glad to see vestments that actually match the liturgical color of the day and happy to see that stoles do not resemble that stack of tye-dye t-shirts you finally threw out.

While using Sixtiesdote make sure you are under a Doctors of the Church care. Whether Teresa of Avila, St. Augustine, St. Thomas Aquinas, etc a good diet of spiritual reading from these sources will greatly increase your chance of spiritual health and to throw off those residual sixties influences. Their bedside manner is always great since you can keep their books at your bedside for easy access. Sixtiesdote works best when taken with Humanae Vitaemins as part of your daily allowance.

Sixtiesdote is made up of a patented combination of vitamins and minerals such as Wojtyla Karoltene that best enables you to be open to beauty and objective truth without that sixties reflex against even true authority. Often those who suffer from sixties contamination have too much B₃ (Denyasin) in their systems, catechetical deficiencies, and are allergic to anything B₄ 1960. Those with LSD are already on the road to spiritual health and Sixtiesdote helps you get there without severe withdrawal symptoms such as relapsing back to the St. Louis Jesuits.

In just a few short months you will be able to read Dominus Iesus or even attend the extraordinary form of the Mass when it becomes available without incurring sixties panic and other related reactions. Sixtiesdote helps you to join the true counter-culture and be a real radical by fully following Christ and his Church.