Switching to Catholic terminology

[Intercessor]

[size=13]Has anyone come across a Protestant/Catholic Dictionary? Or at least an article with a good list of terminology that needs to change when one becomes a Catholic?

If so, I'd like to order a copy.
If nobody has created one yet, maybe we could at least pool our ideas.

examples:  

P:  After the service, we went to lunch.
C: After Mass, we went to lunch.

P:  I have an unspoken prayer request.
C:  I have a special intention.

P:  The reception will be in the fellowship hall.
C:  The reception will be in the refectory.

Becky
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[japhy]

This document, hosted at EWTN, provides a look at Catholic terminology versus pseudo-Catholic terminology.  Might also be helpful for you.

[Intercessor]

japhy wrote:

This document, hosted at EWTN, provides a look at Catholic terminology versus pseudo-Catholic terminology.  Might also be helpful for you.

Thanks, Jeff.  What I'm looking for is a faster way to eliminate some Protestant terminology ---faster than having "errors" pointed out to me one at a time.  I'm probably making a great number of such "errors" without realizing it.  The faster I realize them the faster I can eliminate them.

[JasPax]

Hello:

Not too many years ago this diocese was like a foreign mission field.

One long-time priests tells this story: A Catholic Church was in the process of being established in a small town that had never seen such a thing. In a discussion with the little group of Catholic residents about a possible name for the mission, one persons suggested, "The First Catholic Church."   :roflmho:

God's Blessings,

 

[Intercessor]

JasPax wrote:

Not too many years ago this diocese was like a foreign mission field.

One long-time priests tells this story: A Catholic Church was in the process of being established in a small town that had never seen such a thing. In a discussion with the little group of Catholic residents about a possible name for the mission, one persons suggested, "The First Catholic Church."   :roflmho:

God's Blessings,

[size=13]Oh, how funny!  Love it!

One priest teased me about saying I had enjoyed the sweet fellowship in a Catholic home.  He said "fellowship" was a Protestant term.  The other day I heard Ralph Martin say St. Teresa of Avila believed fellowship was important to spiritual growth.  I haven't had a chance to check it out and learn whether St. Teresa was "talkin' like a Protestant"  or whether Ralph Martin is the one who injected a Protestant phrase without her having used the term herself.  

So much effort is involved for a middle-aged (or older) person in leaving the Baptist tradition for Catholicism.  It's a bit wearing to make so many internal changes (hard for the cradle Catholic to grasp, I guess) and adopt so many strange new customs only to have ongoing episodes of Protestant phrases setting off others who want all traces of past Protestantism removed.

What's wrong with "fellowship" anyway?  I like that word!  :reading:

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P: The reception will be in the fellowship hall.
C: The reception will be in the refectory.

Becky
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P. The reception will be in the fellowship hall.

C. The reception will be in the parish hall.

P. Sunday School

C. CCD

P. "God laid a burden on my heart" or "convicted me..."

C. "I feel called" or "God called me to..."

P. Song leader

C. Cantor

P. "He preached on..."

C. "The homily was on..."

I'm a cradle Catholic, but these are some phrases that have struck me when talking with my Protestant relatives and friends. 

Anne

[JillD]

Am I correct in thinking that protestants say "ministry," while Catholics say "apostolate"?

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Am I correct in thinking that protestants say "ministry," while Catholics say "apostolate"?

I would say that apostolate is much more common in Catholic terminology, but ministry is not unheard either.

However, Catholics usually do not use the term ministry when applied to parish groups.  (For example, Mom's ministry is called Mom's group or Mom's Bible Study, Senior's ministry is the Senior Citizen luncheon, the women's ministry is Catholic Council of Women etc).  The only exception is youth ministry which is usually called CYO at the parish level and sometimes youth ministry at the diocesan level. 

Actually, at my current parish, the only thing commonly referred to as ministry is the ecumenical outreach to the homeless that we do with area Christian churches. 

Anne

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P. Witness/Testimony

C. Conversion story

 

Anne

[DrDave]

In my experience Protestants use the word fellowship as a verb whereas the Catholic (if used at all use it as an adjective)

My FIL on the occasion of my first officail date with the woman who is now my wife, during the typical Father - New Boyfriend talk said to me

P: Where to you go to fellowship?
C: Where to you go to Church/Mass?

I think I must have had that "kangaroo in the headlights" look as I took about 10 seconds to work out what he meant before answering

Regards Doc

 

[Intercessor]

We're off to a good start.  Thanks for the contributions so far.  


Oh, for Baptists, it's the nursery.

For Catholics, it's the cry room.

[Intercessor]

DrDave wrote:

In my experience Protestants use the word fellowship as a verb whereas the Catholic (if used at all use it as an adjective)

My FIL on the occasion of my first officail date with the woman who is now my wife, during the typical Father - New Boyfriend talk said to me

P: Where to you go to fellowship?
C: Where to you go to Church/Mass?

I think I must have had that "kangaroo in the headlights" look as I took about 10 seconds to work out what he meant before answering

Regards Doc

Well, Doc, it's a wonder you won the lady's hand, then.
During that ten seconds, FIL was probably thinking you were not a particularly godly young fella.  

In my background, fellowship was a noun, an adjective, and a verb.
One heard the word often!  

Sometimes it's hard not to use it.  I haven't heard many satisfactory synonyms.

[Intercessor]

[size=13]Intercessor wrote:

One priest teased me about saying I had enjoyed the sweet fellowship in a Catholic home.  He said "fellowship" was a Protestant term.  The other day I heard Ralph Martin say St. Teresa of Avila believed fellowship was important to spiritual growth.  I haven't had a chance to check it out and learn whether St. Teresa was "talkin' like a Protestant"  or whether Ralph Martin is the one who injected a Protestant phrase without her having used the term herself.  

What's wrong with "fellowship" anyway?  I like that word!  :reading:

Becky

Looks as if my mind was AWOL when I wrote that material.   I doubt very much that St. Teresa of Avila used the English word fellowship

I don't know whether Allison Peers, the translator, used that word.
What I do know is that Ralph Martin uses it in his audio presentation on St. Teresa's teachings.

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[Intercessor]

[size=13]same word but different meanings:

benediction

P: closing prayer after which one makes a mad dash for local restaurant seating

C: in my area, most commonly heard as short way of referring to the Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament

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[CajunRick]

But what is the Protestant term for bingo?  :tiptoe: