The fire of His Name

Feast of the Most Holy Name of Jesus

January 3

 

At every Mass, before the priest begins the Eucharistic prayer,

we pray: “Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord!”

St. Paul proclaims: “God has highly exalted Him and bestowed on Him

the name which is above every name, that at the name of Jesus

every knee should, in heaven and on earth and under the earth,

and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord,

to the glory of God the Father.” - Phil 2:9-11

 

 

 

"There are two things that make it easy for souls to adore Our Lord in the Sacrament of His Love: they can seek His Human Face, though it be veiled by the appearance of the Sacred Host; and they can call upon Him by His Human Name.

These are the two things that people crave in a relationship: knowledge of a face and of a name. From these, one experiences the heart of the other, and so a relationship becomes a communion, an exchange in which one finds fulfillment, that is, joy and a response to one's love in the other. ... 

Come close to Him, then, who has made Himself so close to us. ...

This knowledge of Him -- of His Name and of His Face -- comes through Word and Sacrament in His Holy Catholic Church. Only there can souls come to experience Him as the Risen One with whom they can enter into a relationship so real that it is consummated in a Holy Communion, in partaking of His Body and Blood, and in becoming one with Him, even as He is one with His Father. ...

The Sacred Name and Sacred Face of Jesus are fire and light in this world that is becoming colder and darker by the day. In the end, the darkness will be forever vanquished by the fire of His Name and by the light of His Face, and then there shall be peace in His Kingdom fully revealed, and in the company of His saints who will sing praise to His Name and adore His Face, shining more brightly than a thousand suns, and this unto the ages of ages."

Dom Mark Daniel Kirby is Conventual Prior of Silverstream Priory in Stamullen, County Meath, Ireland.

 

St. Paul was in a very special way the preacher and doctor of the Holy Name.  St. Thomas Aquinas says of him: 

"St. Paul bore the Name of Jesus on his forehead because he gloried in proclaiming it to all men; he bore it on his lips because he loved to invoke it; on his hands, for he loved to write it in his epistles; in his heart, for his heart burned with love of it.  He tells us himself:  'I live, yet not I, but Christ, liveth in me.' "

Click here: Litany of the Holy Name of Jesus - YouTube (9:30 mins)

 

MORE on Devotion to the Holy Name of Jesus:  http://www.fisheaters.com/holyname.html

 

MORE on the Wonders of the Holy Name of Jesus:

http://www.olrl.org/pray/wonders.shtml

 

MORE on spreading devotion to the Holy Name of Jesus:

http://www.nahns.com/