A Catholic friend said:

It’s true, Catholics don’t speak Protestantese — the easiest way to confuse a Catholic is to ask him if he has received Jesus Christ “as his personal Lord and Savior”.

The second easiest way to confuse a Catholic is to ask him when he was “saved!”

The first question confuses Catholics because we receive Jesus every time we receive communion (which is at every mass). As far as “personal Lord and savior” — well, Catholics don’t think in terms of “me and Jesus”, rather we think in terms of “Christ and His Church”. Thus the emphasis for a Catholic is not upon the individual, but upon the Church and her salvation which is found in Christ. The Bible also speaks such language.

The second question confuses a Catholic for the simple reason that we do not typically think of salvation as a one-time experience. Catholics typically do not spout of the date of their “salvation”. Rather we view conversion as a continual and on-going experience.