[Salvation]

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[Salvation]

Your Thursday laugh break.

Monsignor Pope Ping!

[Genoa]

Catholic or otherwise, all churches should ban the use of acronyms, especially in conversation. This is especially difficult in large denominations. Terms like “rectory” and “sacristy” are a challenge. Maybe they could be explained in a glossary left helpfully in the pew racks?

[M Kehoe]

Bttt.

5.56mm

[pgkdan]

but then a new member approached me after Mass to inquire about the availability of classes to become Catholic and when they would begin. Wondering if she'd forgotten the announcement I reminded her what I had said about RCIA classes. She looked at me blankly. "Oh," I said, "Let me explain what I mean by RCIA."

Ok...so how did this 'new member' become Catholic w/o going through RCIA?

[marychesnutfan]

Thanks for this posting, I’m glad to see those inside religion thinking about it at least.

I grew up in the great wilderness that most of the world lives in with NO religious instruction, I didn’t even know what Christmas was about, what an angel was (tho I knew the word) etc.

I attended a Catholic class when I was 9 years old and was blown out of the water at the words they used (transubstantiation was one) and so lost that I never went back nor became Catholic.

I wanted to belong to Christianity and it took me until I was 52 years old. I am Lutheran (Missouri-Synod) and even now I ask what seem to be dumb questions (though my pastor is always glad to be asked) like what does the actual word Gospel mean? (Good News).

Those “inside” religion have no idea what a howling, cold wilderness it is outside of it and how much most people do not know, “sacristy” and acronyms are the least of it.

[cuban leaf]

The article is talking about Catholic church speak. Southern Baptists have an equally funny version...

[ntnychik]

“...railing against the use of Latin in the liturgy...”

Assuming it is commonly known what a liturgy is....

[married21]

Yep. I quote my high-school English teacher: “Speak not so that you can be understood, but so that you cannot possibly be misunderstood.”

The Catholic buzz-word that really gets me is “brokenness”. I really hate that— like the congregation, full of sane and productive human beings, is ready for the psychiatrist couch and a box of tissues.

Protestants have their words, too. When I was the only Catholic in the Cal-tech graduate Christian fellowship, I was tripped up by “discipling” and “convicted” as I “fellowshipped”. It was amusing, though, to learn that my denomination was not the only one mired in buzzwords.

[SERKIT]

What about “oblation”?

[IYAS9YAS]

Did I dare tell her that the classes would be held in the rectory?

Yes, because turning away potential new church members with your sarcasm is a great thing.

[GOP Poet]

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[GeronL]

"confecting the synaxis"

That sounds illegal.... :p