2024-01-03 17:37:15
Each January 3, the Catholic Church celebrates the feast of the Most Holy Name of Jesuswhere it is commemorated the appointment of Christ announced in dreams to Josephwho following the instructions of the angel He took the Virgin Mary as his wife and called the newborn by her name..
He name “Jesus” is the Latin form of the Greek “Jesus” (Jesus)which in turn is the Hebrew transliterationJeshua” (Yehoshuaʕ) o “Jehoshua” (Yehoshuaʕ) o, in its contracted form, “Joshua”that means “Yahweh It is salvation” or simply “God saves.”
He The emergence of veneration of the Most Holy Name of Jesus dates back to the liturgical celebrations of the 14th century.. Saint Bernardino of Siena, in the 15th century, together with his disciples, They propagated the cult of the Name of Jesus and, a century later, around 1530, Pope Clement VII granted the Franciscan Order for the first time authorization to celebrate the Office of the Most Holy Name of Jesus.
Some religious orders celebrate the Most Holy Name of Jesus on days other than January 3as The Franciscans, Carmelites and Augustinians do it on January 14while the Dominicans celebrate a day later, January 15.
Prayer for the Most Holy Name of Jesus
Jesus, son of God,
that you wanted to be among us,
and live like one of many,
annihilating yourself.
You who assumed the condition of servant,
Help us discover the wisdom of humility.
Jesus, our brother,
that you were born from the womb of a woman,
give us Mary as mother, friend and sister
May she take care of us and protect us with the same love and tenderness.
with which he took care of you in the poverty of Bethlehem
and in the daily simplicity of Nazareth.
Jesus, God and man
that you decided to live in our history
and suffer the vicissitudes of time,
that you lived in the humility of a soul,
you knew memory, hope and fear
-the two faces of the uncertain future-
give us the trust
and that by invoking your Holy Name
which is above every name
hope is renewed in us.
Jesus, who wanted to be a God with us
and you learned to enjoy the night and its stars,
of the smell of the rain in Galilee,
that you enjoyed the friendship of men and women
and that you also experienced pain, injustice,
the loneliness and disconsolation of the cross,
that we can have your same feelings
and that we know how to intuit the learnings of suffering.
Jesus, when invoking your Sweet Name
let’s find the strength to follow you,
in the confidence that you are the Lord of our history.
Amen.
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