Glossary of Roman Catholic Terms And Their Abbreviations

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Updated- not exactly alphabetical … I think I have the all so far

B16 = Pope Benedict XVI

CDF = Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith

Credo in Deum = I believe in God

COTT = Communion on the tongue

CITH = Communion in the hand

CIC = Code of Canon Law (Codex Iuris Canonici)

CCC = Catechism of the Catholic Church

CRSJC or just SJC = Canons Regular of St John Cantius

Deus vult = Latin for “God Wills It !”

DO= Divine Office

DL = Divine Liturgy

EF = Forma extraordinaria, or Extraordinary form of the Mass. The 1962 Roman Catholic Missal is used for this Mass.

EMHC = Extraordinary Minister of Holy Communion (often called Eucharistic Ministers or “EM’s”, but this usage is potentially misleading and has been discouraged by the Vatican as only deacons, priests, and bishops are ordinary ministers of Holy Communion).

EO = Eastern Orthodox

F.Ss.R (Filii Sanctissimi Redemptoris) - Sons of the Most Holy Redeemer

FSSP = Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter (Fraternitas Sacerdotalis Sancti Petri)

GIRM = General Instruction for the Roman Missal

HMC = Holy Mother Church

ICK = Institute of Christ the King Soverign Priest

ICRSS = more official acronym for same priests.

JMJ = Jesus Mary and Joseph (sometimes as J+M+J )

JPII = Pope John Paul II

LOTH = Liturgy of the Hours

OF = Forma ordinaria, or, Ordinary Form of the Mass. This is the most widely used form of the Mass today. The Roman Missal is used for this form of the Mass.

OP = Ordo Praedicatorum (Latin for Order of Preachers, more popularly known as the Dominican Order)

OHCAC = One Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church

OMI = Oblates of Mary Immaculate

RB= Roman Breviary

SP = the Apostolic Letter “Summorum Pontificum”, a Motu Proprio issued by Benedict
XVI concerning the EF ewtn.com/library/papaldoc…Pontificum.htm

SSPV = Society of St. Pius V (sedevacantist/schismatic)

SSPX = Society of St. Pius X

(FSSPX = more official acronym for SSPX)

TO = Third Order

UE = Universae Ecclesiae, The Instruction on Summorum Pontificum

USCCB = United States Conference of Catholic Bishops

Vetus ordo = old order of the Mass ( VO )
 
The_Idiot said:
They may be descriptive - but they are certainly very disrespectful.

Referring to the most Sacred Body of Our Lord God and Saviour as CITH and COTT - I’m not impressed .
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:rolleyes: Really? So does it seem less “reverent” to use those terms on an online fourm?
 
archangel04 said:
PCED= Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei
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Added 🙂

B16 = Pope Benedict XVI

CDF = Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith

Credo in Deum = I believe in God

COTT = Communion on the tongue

CITH = Communion in the hand

CIC = Code of Canon Law (Codex Iuris Canonici)

CCC = Catechism of the Catholic Church

CRSJC or just SJC = Canons Regular of St John Cantius

Deus vult = Latin for “God Wills It !”

DO= Divine Office

DL = Divine Liturgy

EF = Forma extraordinaria, or Extraordinary form of the Mass. The 1962 Roman Catholic Missal is used for this Mass.

EMHC = Extraordinary Minister of Holy Communion (often called Eucharistic Ministers or “EM’s”, but this usage is potentially misleading and has been discouraged by the Vatican as only deacons, priests, and bishops are ordinary ministers of Holy Communion).

EO = Eastern Orthodox

F.Ss.R (Filii Sanctissimi Redemptoris) - Sons of the Most Holy Redeemer

FSSP = Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter (Fraternitas Sacerdotalis Sancti Petri)

GIRM = General Instruction for the Roman Missal

HMC = Holy Mother Church

ICK = Institute of Christ the King Soverign Priest

ICRSS = more official acronym for same priests.

JMJ = Jesus Mary and Joseph (sometimes as J+M+J )

JPII = Pope John Paul II

LOTH = Liturgy of the Hours

OF = Forma ordinaria, or, Ordinary Form of the Mass. This is the most widely used form of the Mass today. The Roman Missal is used for this form of the Mass.

OP = Ordo Praedicatorum (Latin for Order of Preachers, more popularly known as the Dominican Order)

OHCAC = One Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church

OMI = Oblates of Mary Immaculate

PCED= Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei

RB= Roman Breviary

SP = the Apostolic Letter “Summorum Pontificum”, a Motu Proprio issued by Benedict
XVI concerning the EF ewtn.com/library/papaldoc…Pontificum.htm

SSPV = Society of St. Pius V (sedevacantist/schismatic)

SSPX = Society of St. Pius X

(FSSPX = more official acronym for SSPX)

TO = Third Order

UE = Universae Ecclesiae, The Instruction on Summorum Pontificum

USCCB = United States Conference of Catholic Bishops

Vetus ordo = old order of the Mass ( VO )
 
ad orientem = to the east; often used to mean facing the apse behind the altar, with priest and people looking in the same direction, even if not to the east.

B16 = Pope Benedict XVI

BVM = Blessed Virgin Mary

CAF = Catholic Answers Forum

CDF = Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith

Credo in Deum = I believe in God

COTT = Communion on the tongue

CITH = Communion in the hand

CIC = Code of Canon Law (Codex Iuris Canonici)

CCC = Catechism of the Catholic Church

CCD = Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, now PSR

CDW = Congregation for Divine Worship

CRSJC or just SJC = Canons Regular of St John Cantius

Deus vult = “God Wills It !”

DO = Divine Office

DICI = Documentation Information Catholiques Internationales, the communication agency of the Priestly Society of St. Pius X

DL = Divine Liturgy

EF = Forma extraordinaria, or Extraordinary form of the Mass. The 1962 Roman Catholic Missal is used for this Mass.

EMHC = Extraordinary Minister of Holy Communion (often called Eucharistic Ministers or “EM’s”, but this usage is potentially misleading and has been discouraged by the Vatican as only deacons, priests, and bishops are ordinary ministers of Holy Communion).

EO = Eastern Orthodox

F.Ss.R (Filii Sanctissimi Redemptoris) - Sons of the Most Holy Redeemer

FSSP = Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter (Fraternitas Sacerdotalis Sancti Petri)

GIRM = General Instruction for the Roman Missal

GNYLC = General Norms for the Liturgical Year and the Calendar

HMC = Holy Mother Church

HV = Humanae Vitae Latin for “Of Human Life” is an encyclical written by Pope Paul VI and issued on 25 July 1968.

ICK = Institute of Christ the King Soverign Priest

ICRSS = Institutum Christi Regis Summi Sacerdotis, more official acronym for same priests of ICK.

ID = Intelligent Design

IHM = Immaculate Heart of Mary

JMJ = Jesus Mary and Joseph (sometimes as J+M+J )

JPII = JP2 = Blessed Pope John Paul II

LOTH = Liturgy of the Hours

NCR = National Catholic Reporter

NO = novus Ordo Missae, Latin for “new ordinary of the Mass” promulgated by Pope Paul VI in 1969; see OF

OF = Forma ordinaria, or, Ordinary Form of the Mass. This is the most widely used form of the Mass today. The Roman Missal is used for this form of the Mass.

OFM = Ordo Fratrum Minorum (Latin for Order of Friars Minor, more popularly known as the Fransiscans)

OHCAC = One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church

OP = Original Poster

O.P. = Ordo Praedicatorum (Latin for Order of Preachers, more popularly known as the Dominican Order)

OSF = Order of Servant Franciscans

OHCAC = One Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church

OMI = Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate

OSB = Ordo Sancti Benedicti (Latin for Order of St. Benedict, more popularly known as the Benedictines)

PCED = Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei

PM = Private Message

PSR = Parish School of Religion, used to be called CCD

RB = Roman Breviary

RCIA = Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults

SAC = Societas Apostolatus Catholici (Latin for Society of the Catholic Apostolate better known as the Pallottines)

SJ = Society of Jesus, more popularly known as the Jesuits (Latin: Societas Iesu, S.J., SJ, or SI)

SJC = see CRSJC

SP = the Apostolic Letter “Summorum Pontificum”, a Motu Proprio issued by Benedict XVI concerning the EF ewtn.com/library/papaldoc…Pontificum.htm

SSPV = Society of St. Pius V (sedevacantist/schismatic)

SSPX = Society of St. Pius X (Excommunication of bishops lifted on 14 SEP 2011)

(FSSPX = more official acronym for SSPX)

TC = Traditional Catholicism

TLM = Tridentine Latin Mass or Traditional Latin Mass, same as EF

TO = Third Order

TOR = Tertium ordo regularis (Third Order of Saint Francis, sometimes called Third Order Regular)

UE = Universae Ecclesiae, The Instruction on Summorum Pontificum

USCCB = United States Conference of Catholic Bishops

VO = Vetus ordo = old order of the Mass

other references:
fisheaters.com/letterstyle.html
acronymfinder.com/
 
I am an EMHC at the local Hospital, I just find that to be a mouthful to say when introducing myself to every patient I visit! 😃
 
I apologize if some of my additions should have been added to the maybe outdated or forgotten thread,
Index of Abbreviations, Acronyms and Slang forum.catholic.com/showthread.php?t=130241
for I just now found it.

How is the Second Vatican Council usually abbreviated? I saw VII but would have guessed SVC
 
Mappleorchard said:
I apologize if some of my additions should have been added to the maybe outdated or forgotten thread,
Index of Abbreviations, Acronyms and Slang forum.catholic.com/showthread.php?t=130241
for I just now found it.

How is the Second Vatican Council usually abbreviated? I saw VII but would have guessed SVC
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VII is okay. Also V2 or, as one former member put it, the EC XXI (Concilium Oecumenicum or 21st Ecumenical Council).
 
Thanks, ProVobis. 😉 I like EC XXI, but have not heard anyone refer to the Council using that term.

NFP = Natural Family Planning

V2 = VII = second Vatican Council, also 21st Ecumenical Council (Concilium Oecumenicum) = EC XXI
 
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