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LORD, have mercy on us
Christ, have mercy on us.
Lord, have mercy on us.
Jesus, hear us.
Jesus, graciously hear us.
God, the Father of heaven, have mercy on us.
God, the Son, Redeemer of the world, have mercy on us.
God, the Holy Spirit, have mercy on us.
Holy Trinity, one God, have mercy on us.
Jesus, Son of the living God, have mercy on us.
Jesus, splendor of the Father, have mercy on us.
Jesus, brightness of eternal light, have mercy on us.
Jesus, king of glory, have mercy on us.
Jesus, the sun of justice, have mercy on us.
Jesus, son of the Virgin Mary, have mercy on us.
Jesus, amiable, have mercy on us.
Jesus, admirable, have mercy on us.
Jesus, the powerful God, have mercy on us.
Jesus, father of the world to come, have mercy on us.
Jesus, angel of the great council, have mercy on us.
Jesus, most powerful, have mercy on us.
Jesus, most patient, have mercy on us.
Jesus, most obedient, have mercy on us.
Jesus, meek and humble of heart, have mercy on us.
Jesus, lover of chastity, have mercy on us.
Jesus, lover of us, have mercy on us.
Jesus, God of peace, have mercy on us.
Jesus, author of life, have mercy on us.
Jesus, model of all virtues, have mercy on us.
Jesus, zealous for souls, have mercy on us.
Jesus, our God, have mercy on us.
Jesus, our refuge, have mercy on us.
Jesus, father of the poor, have mercy on us.
Jesus, treasure of the faithful, have mercy on us.
Jesus, good shepherd, have mercy on us.
Jesus, true light, have mercy on us.
Jesus, eternal wisdom, have mercy on us.
Jesus, infinite goodness, have mercy on us.
Jesus, our way and our life, have mercy on us.
Jesus, joy of angels, have mercy on us.
Jesus, king of patriarchs, have mercy on us.
Jesus, master of apostles, have mercy on us.
Jesus, teacher of the evangelists, have mercy on us.
Jesus, strength of martyrs, have mercy on us.
Jesus, light of confessors, have mercy on us.
Jesus, purity of virgins, have mercy on us.
Jesus, crown of all saints, have mercy on us.
Be merciful, Spare us, O Jesus.
Be merciful, Graciously hear us, O Jesus
From all evil, deliver us, O Jesus.
From all sin, deliver us, O Jesus.
From Thy wrath, deliver us, O Jesus.
From the snares of the devil, deliver us, O Jesus.
From the spirit of fornication, deliver us, O Jesus.
From eternal death, deliver us, O Jesus.
From a neglect of Thy inspirations, deliver us, O Jesus.
By the mystery of Thy holy Incarnation, deliver us, O Jesus.
By Thy nativity, deliver us, O Jesus.
By Thy infancy, deliver us, O Jesus.
By Thy most divine life, have mercy on us.
By Thy labors, have mercy on us.
By Thy agony and passion, have mercy on us.
By Thy cross and dereliction, have mercy on us.
By Thy languors, have mercy on us.
By Thy death and burial, have mercy on us.
By Thy resurrection, have mercy on us.
By Thy ascension, have mercy on us.
By Thy institution of the Most Holy Eucharist, deliver us, O Jesus.
By Thy joys, deliver us, O Jesus.
By Thy glory, deliver us, O Jesus.
Lamb of God, Who takes away the sins of the world, Spare us,O Jesus!
Lamb of God, Who takes away the sins of the world, Hear us, O Jesus!
Lamb of God, Who takes away the sins of the world, Have mercy on us, O Jesus!
Jesus, hear us.
Jesus, graciously hear us.
O, LORD Jesus Christ, Who has said, 'Ask and you shall receive, seek and you shall find, knock and it shall be opened unto you!' mercifully attend to our supplications and grant us the gift of your divine charity, that we may ever love you with our whole heart and never desist from Thy praise.
Give us, O Lord, a perpetual respect and love of Thy holy name; for you never cease to govern those whom you instruct in the solidity of Thy love. Who lives and reigns, one God, world without end. Amen.
From: 1 John 2:29-3:6
Not Listening to Heretics (Continuation)
From: John 1:29-34
The Witness of John (Continuation)
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January 03, 2006 Optional Memorial of the Most Holy Name of Jesus
The Church reveals to us the wonders of the Incarnate Word by singing the glories of His name. The name of Jesus means Savior; it had been shown in a dream to Joseph together with its meaning and to Our Lady at the annunciation by the Archangel Gabriel. Devotion to the Holy Name is deeply rooted in the Sacred Scriptures, especially in the Acts of the Apostles. It was promoted in a special manner by St. Bernard, St. Bernardine of Siena, St. John Capistrano and by the Franciscan Order. It was extended to the whole Church in 1727 during the pontificate of Innocent XIII. The month of January has traditionally been dedicated to the Holy Name of Jesus.
This feast marks no progress in the development of the Church year. It merely embellishes the occasion just observed when the Child received the Name Jesus as had been foretold by the angel. The feast is meant to impress on us Christians the dignity of the Holy Name. It is a relatively new feast, stemming out of devotional piety. Nevertheless, it is not difficult to find in it some liturgical or ancient Christian dogma. What did a name signify originally? The name should express the nature of a thing. Thus Adam in paradise gave the animals names in accordance with their being. Among the Jews God's name expressed His essence, Yahweh, i.e., I (alone) am who am (and cause all else to be). The Jews had the highest respect for the name of God, a reverence that finds continuation in the Our Father: "Hallowed be Thy Name." Persons who played prominent roles in the history of salvation often received their names from God Himself. Adam man of the earth; Eve mother of all the living; Abraham father of many nations; Peter the rock. The Savior's precursor was given the name God assigned him. According to divine precedent, then, the name of the Redeemer should not be accidental, of human choosing, but given by God Himself. For His name should express His mission. We read in Sacred Scripture how the angel Gabriel revealed that name to Mary: "You shall call His name Jesus." And to St. Joseph the angel not merely revealed the name but explained its meaning: "You shall call His name Jesus, for He shall save His people from their sins." The Messiah should not only be the savior, but should be called Savior. With Jesus, therefore, the name actually tells the purpose of His existence. This is why we must esteem His name as sacred. Whenever we pronounce it, we ought to bow our heads; for the very name reminds us of the greatest favor we have ever received, salvation. The Church's Year of Grace, Pius Parsch
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Thank you!
1 Jn 2:29-3:6 / Jn 1:29-34 There's something in us that can't stop wondering what the next part of life will be like. How old will we be? Will we still like to bridge or basketball or whatever? What will our bodies be like? We have all sorts of questions and even more fantastic speculations about the answers. And none of it matters one whit. In today's gospel, St. John points us in a more useful direction. "What we shall be later has not yet come to light. But when it comes to light, we shall be like him for we shall see him as he is." There's some gold hidden in that line, which we could easily miss. John is saying that the very experience of seeing God face-to-face will transform us into God's likeness. The change will not come by force from the outside, but freely from the inside, from the heart which at the sight of God will instinctively let go of anything less than God and give itself into God's hands to be reshaped. That brings us squarely back to the present, for the ultimate transformation that John is talking about is simply the final stage of what our life and especially our prayer should have been about all along, namely, being reconfigured into God's image and likeness. The process of making ourselves malleable in the hands of our Father is the essential work of every day and of a lifetime. So don't let another day pass. |
January 3, 2005
Most Holy Name of Jesus
In a world of fiercely guarded corporate names and logos, it should be easy to understand this feast. The letters IHS are an abbreviation of Jesous, the Greek name for Jesus. Although St. Paul might claim credit for promoting devotion to the Holy Name because Paul wrote in Philippians that God the Father gave Christ Jesus that name that is above every name (see 2:9), this devotion became popular because of 12th-century Cistercian monks and nuns but especially through the preaching of St. Bernardine of Siena, a 15th-century Franciscan. Bernardine used devotion to the Holy Name of Jesus as a way of overcoming bitter and often bloody class struggles and family rivalries or vendettas in Italian city-states. The devotion grew, partly because of Franciscan and Dominican preachers. It spread even more widely after the Jesuits began promoting it in the 16th century. In 1530, Pope Clement V approved an Office of the Holy Name for the Franciscans. In 1721, Pope Innocent XIII extended this feast to the entire Church. Quote:
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Praying for the thirteen trapped miners in West Virginia. Please, Lord, deliver a miracle. We ask in Jesus' name, Amen.
Dear Lord, please extend your saving power to the trapped miners in West Virginia. Sustain them and their families at this time of trial. We pray that in this situation and in all things, Lord, that your will be done. Amen.
Thanks...I needed this today.
You are entirely welcome. Some days have been like that for me too.
Story of the Holy Name of Jesus
The Feast of the Holy Name of Jesus has been restored by Pope John Paul II on January 3. Here is the story of St. Bernardin and the monogram of IHS.
"But, Mother, this is Our Lord's feast day!" And Lorli, aged five, looked as if she had made a big discovery. "We have to celebrate it but how? Do you think Our Lord would like His monogram used as a table decoration?" asked Martina, who had just in that year copied beautifully the "I.H.S." in genuine gold-leaf on a deep cornflower-blue background. And so it was done. The monogram of the name of Jesus was put as centerpiece on the table, surrounded by flowers. We happened to have company on that day and somebody asked, pointing to the golden letters, "What is that?" And so we told the story: Around 1400 there lived in Italy a holy Franciscan monk by the name of Bernardin. From the name of his home town, he became famous as Bernardin of Siena, and famous he became for his great eloquence. He was the most renowned preacher of his days and he always had a great love and admiration for the Holy Name of Jesus. Soon his fame had spread all over Italy, and people came from far distances to hear Bernardin preach. All the churches were too small to accommodate the crowds. In Siena he had to use the big piazza. There was one great vice prevalent in his town at that time: card-playing. Every night the men spent all their time and money gambling, and the women did not know how to keep the fathers of the family at home and how to prevent the household money from being gambled away; so they went to St. Bernardin and asked him to do something about it. On the next Sunday, when the piazza was jammed with people as usual, Bernardin got up in his improvised pulpit and preached with so much fervor against card-playing that the people were deeply affected. At the end of his sermon he asked them to bring their packs of playing cards and put them on a pile in the middle of the piazza, and they really did so, until there was a large pyramid of playing cards. The Saint lit a candle from the vigil light of the altar and set fire to the pile. As he turned around, a man approached him, tears streaming down his cheeks. "Padre," he wailed, "and what is to become of me?" And he informed the Saint that he was the man who had manufactured the cards. "How shall I earn a living now? I'm facing starvation if no one buys my cards any more." The Saint looked startled for a moment. This had never occurred to him. He closed his eyes and sent a silent, fervent prayer to Our Lord asking for enlightenment. When he opened his eyes again, he smiled at the man and said, "Give me a board and a piece of chalk." When the man had produced both, St. Bernardin drew, in the lettering of his time, the letters "I.H.S." (from the Latin "Jesus Hominum Salvator" meaning "Jesus, Saviour of men"). "Print this instead," said the Saint, handing the board to the man. "Golden letters on a blue background, and have them ready next week." And on the next Sunday, when all the people had returned bringing friends along until there was not a square foot left on the huge piazza, the Saint gave his famous sermon on the efficacy of the Name of Jesus and how we should carry it with us, how we should place it in our rooms over our bed, in our prayer books, over the house doors, how we should carry it in the form of a medal around the neck because it is the monogram of the Name of Him Whom we should love more than anybody or anything else. The people took this advice, and the little man who had formerly sold playing cards sold from now on the famous monogram, which soon appeared cut in stone, carved in wood, modeled in clay, printed on paper, used in illuminations, and which is decorating our table today because of the feast of the Holy Name which it represents. NOTE FOR THE FAMILY: On the Sunday after New Year's Day the Church celebrates the feast of the Holy Name of Jesus. [Editor's Note: This feast is now January 3.]
Activity Source: Around the Year with the Trapp Family by Maria Augusta Trapp, Pantheon Books Inc., New York, New York, 1955 |
**The Feast of the Holy Name of Jesus has been restored by Pope John Paul II on January 3.**
I wasn't aware that this was why this Feast Day is coming back. Thank you, Pope John Paul II!
Tuesday January 3, 2006 Most Holy Name of Jesus
Reading (1 John 2:29-3:6) Gospel (St. John 1:29-34)
In the first reading today, Saint John says a couple of things that could be very disheartening for us, because he tells us, number one, that everyone who acts in righteousness is begotten by God, and then goes on to say that anyone who sins has never seen the Lord nor known Him because no one who remains in Him commits sin. Well, if we look at that, we realize that we are all pretty much implicated immediately because we are all sinners and we do not always act in righteousness. So what exactly is he saying, that we have no concept of Our Lord? No. What he is saying is that if we truly knew Him we would change our lives. If we knew Him perfectly, we would not do the things that we do.
Now that is what the spiritual life is all about: coming to know the Lord more perfectly. It is being conformed to Christ. In so doing, we become more and more righteous, more perfect; and, in that way, sin is rooted out of our lives. So have we known Him? Not in the fullness of Who He is, not in the fullness of Who we could know Him to be. If you think about it on a human level, it is the same thing. You can know somebody, you can be friends with that person, but it is only over time that the person is revealing more and more of himself or herself to you. You come to know the person more and more as you spend time with them. It is the same with Our Lord. The more we spend time with Him and the more we get to know Him, the more He reveals Himself to us.
Saint John the Baptist tells us that the very reason he came baptizing was to reveal Christ to Israel. Saint Johns baptism was a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sin. In other words, in order to know Him more, we have to get rid of sin. For Him to be revealed more fully to us, the sin has to go. And so it is all working together. We do not know Him completely. In other words, as long as we are still sinning, there is still darkness in our mind and there is still weakness in the will; we are clouded, to differing degrees. One who is steeped in mortal sin, for instance, cannot see clearly at all. One who has venial sins has some cloudiness that stands between that person and the Lord. There is a much clearer view of Christ if one has venial sins instead of mortal sins, yet, at the same time, there is still a veil, there is still a fog between. The more we get rid of the venial sins in our lives, the more the fog lifts and the more clearly we are able to see.
If that is the case, then, we can also understand what Saint John is talking about when he says that the reason the world does not know us is it does not know Him. Well, if we cannot even see Him clearly because of our sinfulness, what are the worldly types going to be able to do? They are completely steeped in the things that this world has to offer, which are all pretty unfortunate, and if we consider the principle I just mentionedone who is in the state of mortal sin cannot see clearly at allif we without mortal sin (so we hope and trust) cannot see clearly, if we without mortal sin still have some fogginess there that separates us from Christ, then how can one who is walking in total darkness be able to recognize the Lord? They cannot. And so the more we are conformed to Christ, the less we are going to be recognized.
That is why it is so incumbent upon us to make sure we are not trying to march according to the ways of the world. If we want to fit in with the world then we are not being conformed to Christ. It is just that simple. We need to ask ourselves: Where is eternity going to be spent? It is not going to be spent in this world. It is going to be spent in heaven by those who have chosen Christ and have chosen to become like Him. Saint John says, What we will be has not yet been revealed, but when it is revealed we will see Him as He is because we will be like Him. If that is the case, we need to start working on being like Him. That means we will be rejected by the world, we will not be recognized, and we will not be understood. We need to see that that is a gift, and we need to praise God for that.
Again, put it into context. Saint John the Baptist, who was a man who had Original Sin removed while he was in his mothers womb and was exceedingly righteous and penitential out in the desert, admits that he did not recognize Christ until the Holy Spirit descended upon Him. So it is not an easy thing to be able to recognize the fullness of Who He is, yet we are invited into that mystery and we should be drawn into that mystery. But that happens only in prayer. So that is what we have to be about. The conformity to Christ takes place in the spiritual life, in the depths of our heart united with the depths of His heart. The more we are united to Him, the less we sin and the more He is revealed in our lives. And the more He is revealed in us, the less we will be recognized by the world.
If we look at our own lives, again, we just ask, Am I liked by the worldly types? Do I fit in with them? Or do they think that Im a little odd? Do they give me grief? Do they reject me? It is that simple to look at. To whom do we wish to be conformed? There are only a couple of choices. We can posit all the different forms of how we can be worldly, but it is all worldly. So it is either to be like Christ, or it is not to be like Christ. If it is not to be like Christ then it is Antichrist and the spirit of Satan. Who do we want to be like? The choice is ours. If we want to be like Him and we want to be with Him forever then we need to be like Him in this world. And if we are going to be like Him in this world, it means to be righteous in the way that we act and to remove sin from our lives.
* This text was transcribed from the audio recording with minimal editing.
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