Preservation

It's Not the Same as Nostalgia

Saving old things to safeguard tradition is not the same as hoarding them to stuff your attic full of nostalgia. We look for old Catholic books and visual pieces. Some we keep, some we donate for an annual church auction.

I believe this is a print of the depiction of St. Therese by her sister.

This lovely piece of folk art is 21” x 16.5” and hangs over the piano in the parlor.

This was my father-in-law’s boyhood missal growing up in St. Louis (the Italian section). The Catholic Missal by Frs. Callan and McHugh (O.P.), Plain Edition, St. Louis, MO: B. Herder, 1934, Cdl. Hayes imprimatur. It’s a Sunday+ missal “arranged for daily use,” with Masses for each Sunday plus holy days, saint’s feasts, days during octaves, etc. I don’t see that it has been re-printed. Copies available at Amazon, eBay, etc. Here’s one example.

The Modern Apostle by Louis Putz, C.S.C. (Chicago: Fides, 1957, cloth, 1957 imprimatur). About methods and means of taking the Gospel to all areas of life.

Caryll Houselander is an author I am coming to know and esteem. I found this one in the basement of the redoubtable Corner Stone Books in Plattsburgh, N.Y. The Way of the Cross, illustrated by the author (NY: Sheed & Ward, 1955, cloth, 1954 imprimatur). Moving, provocative meditations on the traditional Via Crucis stations. Reprinted by Angelico and Liguori.