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We baby boomers may indeed be the lost generation, but please don't blame us for the changes wrought by the "spirit" of VII or the mess made out of the liturgy, most of this was done by an older generation. Most of us boomers were in high school or college at the time and the only choices were to leave or go along. Many left.

Thank you! I think we baby boomers are unfairly maligned. Many of us did leave in the face of the changes imposed by people who were 10 to 40 years older than we were at the time of VatII. Many of our generation who stayed with the Church did, unfortunately, go with the flow and are now part of the problem. But many of the good new bishops who are being appointed now are also part of our generation, and they obviously suffered through somehow and are now trying to bring back the true Church that the preceding generation destroyed.

VatII was an expression of something that had been going on underground for some time; VatII just threw open all the doors (or "windows") and let that formerly hidden force explode and take over the entire Church.

We baby boomers may indeed be the lost generation, but please don't blame us for the changes wrought by the "spirit" of VII or the mess made out of the liturgy, most of this was done by an older generation. Most of us boomers were in high school or college at the time and the only choices were to leave or go along. Many left.

It's true, I don't deny it. Most of the changes were wrought by the older generation. I was simply commenting on the obvious lack of folks from the baby boom generation in the traditionalist ranks (as a proportion of their numbers in the general population). Furthermore, the ranks of the liturgical, architectural, and spiritual wreckovators is predominantly populated with aging baby boomers.

I don't blame you personally at all, or cast a blanket condemnation at every member of the baby boom generation. Some of them have suffered terribly through all this, no doubt.