Tag: Feast of the Holy Name

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  Standing On The Threshold Eve – Ponderings And A Prayer For 2022

  December 30, 2021

  As we move closer to the New Year and that threshold Eve between 2021 and 2022, I’ve been thinking of the Israelites standing at the Eve of their entry into the Promised Land.  What do you imagine they were thinking, feeling, and saying as they stood at that Eve and looked onto the Promised Land? Read more
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  A New Year’s Day Reflection: 2017, Good Or Bad?

  January 1, 2018

  The year end reviews and assessments are underway. You can read them in the op eds and on social media. You can hear them in the conversations we share with one another and in the silence of our own hearts. Was 2017 a good year or a bad year? It depends, I guess, on who Read more
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  Prayers for the New Year

  December 28, 2015

  While the civil calendar marks January 1 as New Year’s Day, the Church celebrates January 1 as the Feast of the Holy Name, Jesus. Although the two might be celebrated in different ways, they are not necessarily in opposition. Behind the celebrations, resolutions, and good wishes associated with the New Year I suspect there are, Read more
• Salty, Doo Doo, and Jesus – A Sermon for the Feast of the Holy Name, Luke 2:15-21

  January 2, 2012

  The collect and readings for January 1, the Feast of the Holy Name, may be found here. The following sermon is based on the gospel, Luke 2:15-21. After eight days had passed, it was time to circumcise the child; and he was called Jesus, the name given by the angel before he was conceived in Read more
• Richard Rolle on Devotion to the Name, Jesus

  January 1, 2012

  And seeing that you yearn to be God’s lover, I appeal to you to love this name, Jesus, and meditate on it in your heart so that you never forget it wherever you are. And, assuredly, I promise you that you will find great joy and strength in it; and because of the love with Read more
• St. Bernard of Clairvaux on the Feast of the Holy Name

  December 31, 2011

  January 1 is the Feast of the Holy Name. St. Bernard of Clairvaux wrote the following about the Holy Name of Jesus: The sweet Name of Jesus produces in us holy thoughts, fills the soul with noble sentiments, strengthens virtue, begets good works, and nourishes pure affections. All spiritual food leaves the soul dry, if Read more
• The Feast of the Holy Name, Jesus

  January 1, 2010

  The Feast of the Holy Name is celebrated eight days after the Nativity, January 1. Under the Law of Moses, all male infants were to be circumcised on the eighth day after birth (Lv. 12:3). It was also customary at this time to name the child. The collect and readings for this feast may be Read more