Thursday, February 22, 2007

Termin-ology *Updated*

The Living Lexicon: Church Terms That Oughta' Be

Here is a partial list from Allen's Brain. Via Ironic Catholic
Biblidue: The build-up of bookmarks, bulletins, notes, and other miscellanea that collects in one's Bible.

Hymnastics: The entertaining body language of the song leader.

Narthexegesis: Unsolicited post-sermon commentary given the preacher by armchair biblical theologians.

Pewtrify: To occupy a precise spot in the sanctuary for more than 15 years without once showing signs of sentient life.

Ministereotype: A common myth or misconception about any ordained person.

Hymnprovisation: The abrupt and unannounced transition from one song to another, usually a chorus unfamiliar to most present.

Proliferation: An abundance of anti-abortion activists.
I know there is a technical name for this, but I can't think of it right now. I humor the kids by making up new words quite often, so here is my contribution to this cause.


St. Francis some more: The ongoing quoting of St. Francis of Assisi while failing to heed his advice to preach the Gospel always, and IF necessary, use WORDS. [corrected]

Tiptation: The desire to comment on the poor sermon or music by putting pennies in the collection.

A-Pox-alyptic: A curse put upon someone who ignores the end-times warnings of the Left Behind disciple.

Epi-crisis: The use of invalid words for the invocation of the Holy Spirit before the consecration of the Eucharist.

EMC: The use of so many Extraordinary Ministers that one of them has to function as the MC and direct traffic.

2 comments:

frival said...

I'm still chuckling... One question, wasn't it St. Francis of Assisi who said that rather than St. Francis de Sales? I think my favorite thus far is Pewtrify, although I can probably think of cases where I've seen each of these in practice if I try hard enough.

KaleJ said...

after searching on the quote, I see it is attributed to St Francis of Assisi.

Thanks for the correction.