{"id":24216,"date":"2009-01-03T05:45:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-03T09:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/01\/the-most-holy-name-of-jesus\/"},"modified":"2013-09-17T15:50:36","modified_gmt":"2013-09-17T19:50:36","slug":"the-most-holy-name-of-jesus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/01\/the-most-holy-name-of-jesus\/","title":{"rendered":"Holy Name of Jesus"},"content":{"rendered":"


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\"Virgin<\/a>Lord, may we honor the Holy Name of Jesus enjoy His friendship in this life and be filled with eternal joy in His Kingdom, where He lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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Jesu Dulcis Memoria<\/span><\/p>\n

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Jesu, the very thought of thee
\nWith sweetness fills my breast;
\nBut sweeter far thy face to see,
\nAnd in thy presence rest!<\/span><\/p>\n

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Nor voice can sing, nor heart can frame,
\nNor can the memory find
\nA sweeter sound than thy blest name,
\nO Savior of mankind!<\/span><\/p>\n

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O hope of every contrite heart!
\nO joy of all the meek!
\nTo those who fall, how kind thou art,
\nHow good to those who seek!<\/span><\/p>\n

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But what to those who find? Ah this
\nNor tongue nor pen can show:
\nThe love of Jesus, what it is,
\nNone but his lovers know.<\/span><\/p>\n

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O Jesu, light of all below!
\nThou Fount of life and fire!
\nSurpassing all the joys we know,
\nAnd all we can desire!<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Thee will I seek, at home, abroad,
\nWho everywhere art nigh;
\nThee in my bosom’s cell, O Lord,
\nAs on my bed I lie.<\/span><\/p>\n

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With Mary to thy tomb, I’ll haste,
\nBefore the dawning skies,
\nAnd all around with longing cast
\nMy soul’s inquiring eyes;<\/span><\/p>\n

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Beside thy grave will make my moan,
\nAnd sob my heart away;
\nThen at thy feet sink trembling down,
\nAnd there adoring stay;<\/span><\/p>\n

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Nor from my tears and sighs refrain,
\nNor those dear feet release,
\nMy Jesu, still from thee I gain
\nSome blessed word of peace!<\/span><\/p>\n

A Vespers hymn by Saint Bernard of Clairvaux (12th<\/sup> century)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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The feast of the Holy Name of Jesus\u00a0 has been celebrated in various places since the fifteenth century and was extended to the whole Catholic Church 20 December 1721 by Pope Innocent XIII but it was a devotion of many holy men and women before this time. There are antecedents which indicate that the faithful’s veneration of the Holy Name was encouraged Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, Saint Bernardine of Siena and Saint John Capistrano.\u00a0Various religious orders had their dates for the observance of this feast. Sadly, one of the reforms of the Second Vatican Council was to excise the feast from the liturgical calendar thinking that the Holy name was honored enough in the Divine Office and that the Mass texts were reduced to a Votive Mass. When Pope John Paul II published the third edition of the Roman Missal in 2002 he restored the feast to the liturgical calendar as an optional memorial on the first free day after January 1st<\/sup>, that is January 3rd<\/sup>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\"IHS2.jpg\"<\/a><\/span>By the time of Saint Ignatius of Loyola and his companions, the newly of priests chose the name of Jesus by which they would identify themselves. With the pope’s permission the Loyola called his groups the Company of Jesus, translated into Latin to be the Societas Iesus, hence the Society of Jesus. The image adopted was Saint Bernardine’s IHS monogram. The observance of the feast of the Holy Name of Jesus, with its Votive Mass, set the tone of mission of the Company of Jesus. As a side note, the Votive Mass of the Holy Name of Jesus was one the Masses offered for the repose of the soul of Avery Cardinal Dulles at the University Chapel at Fordham. The devotion still is observed in the Society of Jesus.<\/p>\n

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Does your parish have a Holy Name Society? If not, why not ask the pastor to begin one. See the US confraternity’s webpage<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Lord, may we honor the Holy Name of Jesus enjoy His friendship in this life and be filled with eternal joy in His Kingdom, where He lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Jesu Dulcis Memoria \u00a0 Jesu, the very thought of thee With sweetness fills my … Continue reading Holy Name of Jesus<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,17],"tags":[1897,1797,1713],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24216"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24216"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28480,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24216\/revisions\/28480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}