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To: Pyro7480
Beautiful tag line.

Contemplation of the Holy Name of JESUS always leads me to my devotion to St. Joseph since God gave St. Joseph the awesome gift of naming God the Son according to the Law and St. Joseph was obedient to God in naming the Child JESUS as God had willed. So wonderful to contemplate.

Many Maronite prayers speak of St. Joseph as the Chosen One of God, and the Feast of the Holy Name underlines that St. Joseph was indeed chosen for the august responsibility of bestowing the Holy Name upon the Holy Child JESUS.

11 posted on 01/01/2005 2:02:17 PM PST by Siobhan (St Thomas Apostle, pray for us. St Francis Xavier, pray for us. Bl. Teresa of Calcutta, pray for us.)
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To: Siobhan
I'm glad you like the tagline, Siobhan. I hope you and your family had a blessed Christmas and a Happy New Year. I think you made a splendid point linking devotion to the Holy Name to devotion to St. Joseph (perhaps that is one reason why I am attracted to the Holy Name devotion). My mother taught me when I was young to bow my head at the Name of Jesus.

A year ago, on the Feast of the Holy Name, Fr. Harbert, an English priest, offered the Traditional Latin Mass at my indult parish, and he gave an excellent homily on the Holy Name and the Jesus Psalter, a prayer said by English Catholics during the persecution after the Protestant Revolution. I printed out the Psalter off the Internet, and tried saying it. It got buried in one of the piles of papers in my room, but when I went to England in September, I found a nice booklet at the Brompton Oratory that has the entire Psalter in it. I bought one for myself, and got one for Fr. Harbert. I started saying it again recently, and I can attest to the power of the Psalter, since one says the Holy Name of Jesus over 150 times (hence it's name) in it. I'm going to post a short history on the Psalter and link to the page where I found it later tonight.

28 posted on 01/01/2005 7:16:57 PM PST by Pyro7480 ("All my own perception of beauty both in majesty and simplicity is founded upon Our Lady." - Tolkien)
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