Feasts of Our Lord
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The Holy Name of Jesus – January 3
January 3 is the feast of the Most Holy Name of Jesus, as noted in the Introit of the Mass which says: “In the name of Jesus let every knee bow, of those that are in Heaven, on Earth and under the earth.”
Why is the Most Holy Name of Jesus celebrated? Naturally, everything that refers to Our Lord Jesus Christ merits our tribute and our veneration and, therefore, would deserve a feast.
But why this special insistence on the Name of Jesus? Why did great saints of the Church drive away demons with the Name of Jesus? What is the name here? Do we not also say “In the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit?” We invoke the Trinity when we do something very important, for example, at the beginning of the Mass, the priest crosses himself and says these words; or on the occasion of the reading of a will, one says: “In the name of the Most Holy Trinity, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, I, so-and-so, do hereby make my will.”
According to the profound order of things that was truncated by original sin, the human language was able to properly express things, to give each thing an appropriate name. And that name was a word that defined what was most internal, most substantial, most characteristic and most intimate in the being of that to which the name was given.
Thus, Genesis recounts that when the animals passed before Adam, the latter gave to each one its due name. And this action was to define it by means of a word, to express properly – by the natural relationship between the word and the thing being named – the being of the creature to which the name was given.
For example, let us take the eagle... Today we call the eagle an eagle, but there is no necessary relationship between the word eagle and what the eagle actually is, to what is typical of the eagle. It is merely something conventional. But in the language used by Adam, it was different. Between the word “eagle” – the sound, the music and the very structure of the word – and the reality of the eagle, there was a true and profound relationship.
So then, the Most Holy Name of Jesus is, in a mysterious way, the actual definition of what is most definitive in the adorable Person of Our Lord Jesus Christ, of what is most capable of expressing what He is.
In this sense, the name is an image of the person, a symbol of the person, and the Name of Jesus – of which, incidentally, the Gospel speaks with great care – is a very sacred symbol of Jesus, who as a symbol has the power to attract all graces to us and to raise terror in demons. And the Name of Jesus is summed up in these three initials – IHS, Jesus Christ the Savior of mankind, which is placed on documents, certain papers and under the Cross.
The Cross and the Name of Jesus are the two perfect symbols.
The Counter-Revolution is the victory of the Name of Jesus
Does this have a special meaning for counter-revolutionaries? Naturally it does. The Name of Jesus, being the word that indicates His glory, is the manifestation of His glory. We want the glorification of the Name of Jesus, of the Name of Mary. One of the banners that will be raised at the dawn of the Reign of Mary is sure to be a standard gloriously painted with the Name of Jesus, and another gloriously painted with the Name of Mary.
What does the Church want when she glorifies the Name of Jesus? She wants Jesus to be honored; she wants the Name of Jesus to be above all things and that everyone and everything be subject to Him. She wants a sacral order, based on the one true Faith which is the Roman, Catholic and Apostolic Faith. She wants an order that has nothing secular, revolutionary or egalitarian in it. And the Feast of the Name of Jesus is one of those many feasts representing sacrality, hierarchy and Christian Civilization.
These are the thoughts that should animate us on this feast day. And the appropriate thing for us to ask is that the Name of Jesus be given all glory. That is, that Jesus be known, adored and reverenced by all men, and that reverence be given to those things that are in conformance with Him. And that, therefore, the gnostic and egalitarian Revolution be smashed and that the Counter-Revolution be victorious, because the Counter-Revolution is the actual victory of the Name of Jesus.
The Saint of the Day features highlights from the lives of saints based on comments made by the late Prof. Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira. Following the example of St. John Bosco who used to make similar talks for the boys of his College, each evening it was Prof. Plinio’s custom to make a short commentary on the lives of the next day’s saint in a meeting for youth in order to encourage them in the practice of virtue and love for the Catholic Church. TIA thought that its readers could profit from these valuable commentaries.
The texts of both the biographical data and the comments come from personal notes taken by Atila S. Guimarães from 1964 to 1995. Given the fact that the source is a personal notebook, it is possible that at times the biographic notes transcribed here will not rigorously follow the original text read by Prof. Plinio. The commentaries have also been adapted and translated for TIA’s site.
But why this special insistence on the Name of Jesus? Why did great saints of the Church drive away demons with the Name of Jesus? What is the name here? Do we not also say “In the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit?” We invoke the Trinity when we do something very important, for example, at the beginning of the Mass, the priest crosses himself and says these words; or on the occasion of the reading of a will, one says: “In the name of the Most Holy Trinity, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, I, so-and-so, do hereby make my will.”
According to the profound order of things that was truncated by original sin, the human language was able to properly express things, to give each thing an appropriate name. And that name was a word that defined what was most internal, most substantial, most characteristic and most intimate in the being of that to which the name was given.
Adam naming the animals
For example, let us take the eagle... Today we call the eagle an eagle, but there is no necessary relationship between the word eagle and what the eagle actually is, to what is typical of the eagle. It is merely something conventional. But in the language used by Adam, it was different. Between the word “eagle” – the sound, the music and the very structure of the word – and the reality of the eagle, there was a true and profound relationship.
So then, the Most Holy Name of Jesus is, in a mysterious way, the actual definition of what is most definitive in the adorable Person of Our Lord Jesus Christ, of what is most capable of expressing what He is.
In this sense, the name is an image of the person, a symbol of the person, and the Name of Jesus – of which, incidentally, the Gospel speaks with great care – is a very sacred symbol of Jesus, who as a symbol has the power to attract all graces to us and to raise terror in demons. And the Name of Jesus is summed up in these three initials – IHS, Jesus Christ the Savior of mankind, which is placed on documents, certain papers and under the Cross.
The Cross and the Name of Jesus are the two perfect symbols.
The Counter-Revolution is the victory of the Name of Jesus
The banner of Mary will be raised alongside the banner of Christ in the Reign of Mary
What does the Church want when she glorifies the Name of Jesus? She wants Jesus to be honored; she wants the Name of Jesus to be above all things and that everyone and everything be subject to Him. She wants a sacral order, based on the one true Faith which is the Roman, Catholic and Apostolic Faith. She wants an order that has nothing secular, revolutionary or egalitarian in it. And the Feast of the Name of Jesus is one of those many feasts representing sacrality, hierarchy and Christian Civilization.
These are the thoughts that should animate us on this feast day. And the appropriate thing for us to ask is that the Name of Jesus be given all glory. That is, that Jesus be known, adored and reverenced by all men, and that reverence be given to those things that are in conformance with Him. And that, therefore, the gnostic and egalitarian Revolution be smashed and that the Counter-Revolution be victorious, because the Counter-Revolution is the actual victory of the Name of Jesus.
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The texts of both the biographical data and the comments come from personal notes taken by Atila S. Guimarães from 1964 to 1995. Given the fact that the source is a personal notebook, it is possible that at times the biographic notes transcribed here will not rigorously follow the original text read by Prof. Plinio. The commentaries have also been adapted and translated for TIA’s site.