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1. Please add Marginalised to the list of annoying buzzwords, thank you.

   Posted By: Jeff D

2. A few more totally unnecessary changes are ambo (which is an ambulance officer),
   stewardship, and discernment. Really, what is the need for these?

   Posted By: Marjorie

3. Let's not forget, in the 'good old days' when I was a youth and the church sailed on serenely before political correctness, there were buzz words too - many of which caused me 'wonder and amazement' if not a sense of downright silliness.
   Here's a few I remember from various retreat masters, sermons and everyday speech within the ghetto:
   divine intercourse, pious ejaculations, Holy Mother Church, the good Sisters (up at the convent), dear Father (down at the presbytery), non-catholics, spiritual bouquet, spoilt priest (someone who left the seminary), self-sacrifice (don't hear much of that anymore), spiritual immolation (for those who took the spiritual life very seriously), renunciation (pace divine immolation, but on a lesser scale), mixed marriage, offer-it-up, renunciation of the will, submission to the will of God, mortal sin, venial sin, missing Mass on Sunday, Friday fish and chips and others my feeble brain cannot recall.
   Odd though - the modern buzz words are often conected with me/us and self fulfuilment.
   The old buzz words were often about God, self-forgetfulness, obligation, duty and a confident sense of catholic identity. Perhaps it felt like we were in a ghetto.
   All I know is, in those days if someone said to me - or sang at me, 'Come as you are; that's how I want you....' I would have thought then, as I think now - 'Well, you're easily pleased.'
   There should be a tax on that hymn.

   Posted By: Phillip Turnbull

4. He forgot 'vibrant'.

   Posted By: David Kennedy

5. Hmmmmm. Not confined to the Church, methinks.

   Posted By: Tony Martin

6. Remind me again why we are trying to prevent people from speaking the way they want to.
   Picture this: A parishioner walks up to their PP and says something along the lines of, 'group of us in the parish would really like some spiritual formation - something along the lines of a bible study group.'
   To which the PP replies, 'Please don't use the word formation. It bothers me because...'
   Wouldn't a better response be, 'Sure!'
   Or how about this: 'Would you like me to take your robes for cleaning?
   The words aren't important, the message is. A lack of eloquence isn't grounds for criticism and ultimately is counter-productive. I'm sure Jesus had something to say about being caught up in the minutia.
   Maybe the author should try being a little more delicate.

   Posted By: Terence Boylen

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