Today the Church celebrates the feast honoring
the Holy Name of Jesus. Medieval Catholicism, and many other Christian churches
to the present day, celebrated this feast along with the Feast of the
Circumcision of Christ, usually on January 1st. St Bernardino of Siena placed
great emphasis on the Holy Name, which he associated with the IHS Christogram,
and may be responsible for the coupling of the two elements. The feast of the
Holy Name of Jesus was moved around over the centuries, and in 2002, it was
re-inserted in the Roman calendar to be celebrated today, January 3. The
name of Jesus is frequently shown as a Monogram of IHS, the first three letters
of the Greek name IHSUS. St. Bernardino of Siena and St. John Capistrano, along with St. Bernard spread the devotion to the Holy Name of Jesus throughout the centuries. The name of Jesus is offered in a variety of forms, as
you can see from this short list of languages:
Albanian - Jezusi
Bosnian - Isus
Czech - Ježíš
Filipino - Hesus/Hesukristo
Hawaiian - Jesu
Hungarian – Jézu
Maltese - Gesù
Polish - Jezus
Ukranian - Icyc
Vietnamese - Chúa Giêsu
Wednesday 3 January 2024
Feast of the Name of Jesus
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