Welcome 2009!

Happy New Year to all!

Let us pray for one another that God will grant us many graces and blessings during 2009.

A plenary indulgence can be gained by devoutly assisting at the solemn singing or recitation in a Church or Oratory of the Te Deum on 31 December and the Veni Creator Spiritus on 1 January.

1 January is a triple feast being that of the Circumcision of the Lord, the Feast of Mary the Mother of God and the Octave Day of Christmas, and the following Sunday is the great Feast of the Holy Name of JESUS.

This latter feast was popularised by the Franciscan Order and was eventually made universal by Pope Innocent XIII in 1721.

It reminds us of the importance of keeping holy the name of God just as the Jews kept holy the name of God. We should bow the head at the Holy Name and use it with reverence and not indiscriminately. We should not casually speak the Holy Name as if it were simply a common name to be bandied about.

Some Catholics these days inadvertently do this thinking it is simple and devout but it is not. It can even be disrespectful of the Holy Name.

The Holy Name of JESUS comes from the Hebrew and means "Saviour". The English rendering of the Latin is "Joshua".

The fullness of the Holy Name means "Anointed Saviour" for the name CHRIST comes from the same root as CHRISM, the oil of anointing.

Let us reverence the Holy Name, using it sparingly and with great devotion whenever we do.

Here is a clip of a community of monks singing Veni Creator:

Who is Yeshua Moshiach?

Well, apparently these people know:

http://www.ark-of-salvation.org/jesus_christ_2003.htm

But - absurdly - they don't know why He is usually called

JESUS CHRIST

Here is what their web-site says about the Holy Name:

"Although this name is not at all difficult for English speakers to pronounce, the King James translators of the Bible chose to take his name from the Greek New Testament, in which book he was called Iesous. This name, for reasons which are not entirely clear, became Jesus in England."

Not clear?

What poppycock!

The reasons are entirely clear. The language of the Christian Church became Latin after the Roman Empire became Christian.

Any simpleton knows this, surely?

And the Latin for Yeshua or Iesous is Jesus.

The Anointed Saviour - Yeshua Moshiach

The English equivalent is Joshua. So if they want an English translation they should call our Lord by the name of Joshua Christ.

But they don't.

They call Him Jesus Christ just as we do in the Roman Catholic Church.

Yet another example of the simple truth that Christianity is Roman and Catholic, that the Roman Catholic Church gave to the whole world the first message of Christianity and that is why the Latin version of our Lord's name is the name that is universally used.

The name, as I said in my last post, means

SAVIOUR, ANOINTED OF THE LORD

Yeshua means "saviour" and Moshiach means "Anointed of the Lord" which is often rendered "Messiah" or "Messias".

In Greek, the language of the Septuagint and the New Testament, it is Iesous Christos and in Latin, the language of the Roman Empire and of the Church, it is JESUS CHRISTUS.

The word "Chrism" has the same root since the Oil of Chrism is used for anointing.

How, therefore, can these people say that the Holy Name of Jesus is used in England for "reasons which are not clear"?

There are none so blind as those who will not see...


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