Nice way to kill the good feeling of what looks like a wonderful ceremony. Ecclessi Speak is a part of the movement of Twentieth and Twenty-First century professionals to produce jargon that drains the life out of everything it touches. Kill it with a stick or anything else handy, but kill it!
One of the Worst Examples of Ecclesi Speak
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
I agree. It’s one of those phrases, like calling a parish a ‘faith community’ or a priest/celebrant a ‘presider’, that indicates that whatever else one is about to read or hear will be either fatuous or heretical, or both.
Leviticus 19:15
15 You shall not render an unjust judgment; YOU SHALL NOT BE PARTIAL TO THE POOR or defer to the great: with justice you shall judge your neighbor.
Ecclessi Speak Is gnostic, clericalistic and parasitic. Salt and set on fire.
If I recall correctly, that particular phrase is the Prime Directive of “liberation theology”, a/k/a Marxist pseudo-Catholicism. Shoot it in the head, indeed.
Correct Frank. A product of Liberation Theology and embraced by many Catholic Bishops in Latin America, which helps explain the rise of Protestantism there.
Reminds me of why I don’t care much for Special Olympics.
Most of us will never be the caliber of athlete to be Olympians, yet we celebrate the competence of those who can.
Special Olympics intends celebrating the human spirit, I get it.
To me, it mostly celebrates…being handicapped. Unending incompetence.
Yeah, “people of God”, instead of Catholics.
Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy coined the phrase “Exceptional children” to describe the disabled.
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I very much agree, Mr. McC.
I care about words. Words should be clear and true. “Preferential option” sounds like something in a legal contract. Our good Jesus is there (in my very favorite Papal basilica) for *everyone*. He loves us all, including the poor, the disabled, the wealthy, the healthy – everyone. Like the Prodigal Son’s father, he loves us personally and without preference.