Silly, meaningless, inaccurate, overused, dumbed-down, erroneous, or self-contradictory buzzwords and phrases

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“Eucharistic Minister” – only the ordained are eucharistic ministers.

“Reconciliation Room” – not to be confused with the Romper Room, this was formerly known as the “confessional”.

“Faith Community” – why not just say “parish”?

“Catholics and Christians” – implies that Catholics are not Christians. A better alternative would be “Catholics and other Christians.”

“Presider” and “Celebrant” – although applicable in concelebrated Masses to indicate the main celebrant, these words are often used even when there is only one of the ordained so as not to use the word “priest”.

“Worship Space” – as compared to what, “Outer Space?” Why not simply call it the “church,” or more accurately, the “nave”?

“Roman Catholic Church” – there is no such thing. See here:
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Lepanto said:
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“Reconciliation Room” – not to be confused with the Romper Room, this was formerly known as the “confessional”.

“Faith Community” – why not just say “parish”? Because not all Faith Communities are parishes? My last one was just that, a Faith Community, based on language and NOT a parish.

“Worship Space” – as compared to what, “Outer Space?” Why not simply call it the “church,” or more accurately, the “nave”? Again, not all worship space is a church. For the above Faith Community, the worship space was a school auditorium.
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if we say “faith formation”,
parish school of religion
or even religious education, a lot of people don’t know what we mean but if we say “CCD” their eyes light up, oh yeah
 
puzzleannie said:
if we say “faith formation”,
parish school of religion
or even religious education, a lot of people don’t know what we mean but if we say “CCD” their eyes light up, oh yeah
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OTOH, I’d never heard of CCD until I started coming to these boards. In fact, although I did look it up once, and I now know that it refers to religious education, the initials still don’t bring words to my mind.
 
Lepanto said:
“Presider” and “Celebrant” – although applicable in concelebrated Masses to indicate the main celebrant, these words are often used even when there is only one of the ordained so as not to use the word “priest”.
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A Deacon can preside at a Word and Communion Service as well as any Office in the Liturgy of the Hours. I believe the term is also “preside” when it comes to a funeral liturgy that does not include the Mass, and so a Deacon can preside at those too.
 
Low and High Mass- as if the Mass has lesser degrees. I believe
the Mass is the Mass. I’m sorry so Jesus had what degree of
Mass, when he insitituted the Eucharist?
 
“Faith journey”–overused.

“Dialogue”–used by dissenters (usually as a verb no less) to mean, “We keep talking until you cave and start marrying homosexuals and ordaining women.”
 
puzzleannie said:
if we say “faith formation”,
parish school of religion
or even religious education, a lot of people don’t know what we mean but if we say “CCD” their eyes light up, oh yeah
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It was just plain Catechism when I was growing up. Or was that something else??🤷
 
“Vibrant Parish Life” – Look out, we’re downsizing and closing parishes!

~~ the phoenix
 
“Director of Religious Education (DRE)” – isn’t the true DRE of any parish really the pastor? He has the final responsibility of the religious education of all of the people in his parish (I’m not saying that he doesn’t need qualified people to help him, I just think the DRE title as typically used is misleading)
 
Phemie said:
OTOH, I’d never heard of CCD until I started coming to these boards. In fact, although I did look it up once, and I now know that it refers to religious education, the initials still don’t bring words to my mind.
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I think this is a generational or regional thing, in fact CCD is kid of new-fangled to those of us who still call it “catechism class”. in fact it stands for Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, a movement to improve and systematize religious education especially of children preparing for sacraments, begun in the Counter-Reformation by St. Charles Borromeo and others. He was of course also the prime mover in reform of seminaries and improvements in education of priests. in many parishes, especially those w/o Catholic schools, the formal education of children based on the Cathechism was done under their auspices, usually by trained lay people.
 
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“Director of Religious Education (DRE)” – isn’t the true DRE of any parish really the pastor? He has the final responsibility of the religious education of all of the people in his parish (I’m not saying that he doesn’t need qualified people to help him, I just think the DRE title as typically used is misleading)
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Technically, only a degreed person (usually MA Rel Ed) should carry the title DRE. But to follow up on your question - The parents are ultimately the responsible party for religious education - the parish program exists to supplement that activity.

Peace.
 
“General Absolution Service” – Absolution is for individual, auricular confession except in emergencies.

In my Diocese we have “Pastoral Units” – which essentially are a few parishes in close proximity that are slated to be closed/merged.

My Bishop has used the line “in line with the wishes of the [Second Vatican] Council” in letters when he’s trying to explain some of his more liberal ideas.

It seems that progressives have lots of “buzz” words while Orthodox Catholics only bat around one word: “Holy”.
 
All the words and phrases that are being mentioned so far I do not have a problem. Maybe the problem lays in people being
properly catechized. If you will see on some of the other threads,
there is generally a need for proper “RELIGIOUS EDUCATION” on the part of the Pastor and his DRE,which includes YOUTH
RELIGIOUS EDUCATION. At the local FAITH COMMUNITY.
After all we are still on a FAITH JOURNEY,until we reach
heaven.
 
puzzleannie said:
I think this is a generational or regional thing, in fact CCD is kid of new-fangled to those of us who still call it “catechism class”. in fact it stands for Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, a movement to improve and systematize religious education especially of children preparing for sacraments, begun in the Counter-Reformation by St. Charles Borromeo and others. He was of course also the prime mover in reform of seminaries and improvements in education of priests. in many parishes, especially those w/o Catholic schools, the formal education of children based on the Cathechism was done under their auspices, usually by trained lay people.
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It must be regional. I’m in Canada and we usually refer to faith formation or religious education. Some of my generation still refer to catechism classes although in our parish, and many others in our diocese, we don’t have those.

Off-topic, I know, but our own diocese (well, at least our parish) has been rather messed up since religious ed stopped being offered in the schools. We have not had anything but sacramental preparation in our parish for the last 9 years. We’ve offered a home-parish program of faith formation, recognizing that parents are their children’s primary teachers of the faith, but parents were simply not interested. And we have 1, count 'em, 1 person doing sacramental preparation with the kids. Everybody was so used to a denominational system of education – no public schools existed in our province, they were either Catholic, Integrated (Anglican, United, etc) or Pentecostal) – that parents have never recovered their role once that stopped. It’s very discouraging to look at the registers and see then number of kids who were baptized in the early 90s and haven’t done anything else since.
 
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“Eucharistic Minister” – only the ordained are eucharistic ministers.
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Just one to add: EMHC - Extraordinary Minister of the Holy Communion.

“Eucharistic Minister,” for problems with the English language, grates on me doubly much.​

Pious_Mat said:
In my Diocese we have “Pastoral Units” – which essentially are a few parishes in close proximity that are slated to be closed/merged.
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The whole term “Pastoral Units” makes me giggle. It makes me think of the robot from Lost in Space in an alb who recognizes a non-C or someone in mortal sin – who then calls out to the presiding Priest and says, “Danger, Reverend Father,” or “Your Reverence, Danger!” :eek:

Okay, I must be tired. Forgive what you may see as my flippancy. 😊 I didn’t really mean it to sound so bad.
 
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