The phrase, "Being church"

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There is a definite north/south divide. I had a great grandmother who was so Northern she dropped the word “the” entirely.
 
Where I live, people leave “to be” out of their sentences.

The house needs painted.
The children need fed.

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What I find is that the people that use these terms seem to be more armchair theologians (with an agenda) parroting what they’ve read in someone else’s blog.

When you try to dig into what’s the difference between Lucan and Johannine you get arm waving or normally indignation…or more tellingly “I’m offended that you asked me …”
 
Do you mean like in the phase “Hello Church” or “Good morning Church”?

Yeah, I don’t like it. However, it is something used a lot in African American parishes.

Its a colloquialism that only makes sense in particular communities.
 
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Where I live, people leave “to be” out of their sentences.

The house needs painted.
The children need fed.

😱 😱 😱
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did they all leave school at an early age?!?!?! 🤓
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Someone once said to me “Thems is broke.” I did not even know where to begin.
 
I had the same thought when I first heard it. Everyone (except my family, and other outsiders) speaks that way, college graduates included. When I have asked people about it, they shake it off and laugh like its nothing. It boggles the mind.
 
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I had the same thought when I first heard it. Everyone (except my family, and other outsiders) speaks that way, college graduates included. When I have asked people about it, they shake it off and laugh like its nothing. It boggles the mind.
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Where are they from??? I understand that sometimes people use incomplete sentences when a short phrase or 1-2 words can convey what they mean… but never using “to be” makes no sense to me.
 
Irishmom2 said:
I had the same thought when I first heard it. Everyone (except my family, and other outsiders) speaks that way, college graduates included. When I have asked people about it, they shake it off and laugh like its nothing. It boggles the mind.
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It’s called dialect, y’all.
 
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I guess so, but that doesn’t change the fact that it “sounds” wrong everywhere else. 😊
Fuhgeddaboudit!
 
Interesting guys. I’m in RCIA, do any of you have thoughts and info on the mystical body means? What does it mean to you? Just curious…

Peace
 
I agree with the mystical body and that we are all called to be part of it by participating in the mass. I don’t believe we can “be the church” as an alternative to going to church though I do sometimes wish that was the case.
 
Hmm I was a “just the people are the church” kinda guy for awhile… Only led to confusion.
 
Slight tangent: sometimes a dialectal usage ‘fixes’ a problem the standard usage poses, such as when New Yorkers say ‘youse’ to mean you plural.
 
I don’t like “that’s church,” which is used as an adjective to describe something as significant, important, worth taking seriously, etc.
 
The staff at work knows: every document that goes out must have the Oxford comma. It’s one of the few hard rules that I enforce.
 
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