Hello AnnieO!
Thank you for your courteous reply. I mentioned sixty years because I became a Roman Catholic in June, 1955. "Cry rooms" came ten or twenty years later. Many people carried a Latin/English "St Joseph Missal" to services, so it was not hard to follow the priest. There WERE rather short "Golfers' Masses" in those days, but a 6:30 AM Sunday Mass in Bensalem PA today can be offered in 29 minutes, with almost the entire (large) congregation taking Communion. Another feature of Mass many years ago was the lack of loud talking in church before services began. Once services started, people were silent. If their minds WERE on other matters, they made a good job of appearing to be attentive. One thing that has remained the same: people then and now become restive when a homily is actually a request for money. Our recollections of the Latin Mass are obviously quite different. Have a wonderful day. HJ