Today we laud The Most Holy Name of Jesus - It is NOT Epiphany yet!

Calm down everybody! Although the ultramontane Roman Catholics are celebrating the "epiphany" today, that does not make it so. Ever since the New Rite modernists lost touch with us, I don't know why the Conciliar Church does what it does. However, as usual, the Feast of the Epiphany of Our Lord will indeed be celebrated this coming Thursday, January 6th. At least if you don't - we will...

Today we Traditional Old Roman Catholics are celebrating the Feast of The Most Holy Name of Jesus. It is a totum duplex feast of the first class. It is also the name and Feastday of the TORC Diocese which I transferred from. So Happy Diocesan Feast Day, brethren.

These are today's readings as contained within our Tridentine Liturgy: Epistle: Acts of the Apostles 4. 8-12; Gospel: St. Luke 2:2, Exodus 34:1-8; Psalm 8; Romans 1:1-7; Luke 2:15-2. Please meditate upon them if you are attending a Novus Ordo Mass this Sunday.

(Indulgences, one hundred days each day if the devotion is made privately, three hundred days each day, if the devotion be in a public church or chapel, plenary indulgence for daily assistance at the public functions, under the usual conditions (Leo XIII, "Brief", 21 Dec., 1901; "Acta S. Sedis", XXXIV, 425). From the Catholic Encyclopedia, copyright © 1913

This feast is the central feast of all the mysteries of Christ the Redeemer; it unites all the other feasts of the Lord, as a burning glass focuses the rays of the sun in one point, to show what Jesus is to us, what He has done, is doing, and will do for mankind. It originated towards the end of the fifteenth century, and was instituted by the private authority of some bishops in Germany, Scotland, England, Spain, and Belgium.

The Office and the Mass composed by Bernardine dei Busti (d. 1500) were approved by Sixtus IV. The feast was officially granted to the Franciscans 25 February, 1530, and spread over a great part of the Church. The Franciscans, Carmelites, and Augustinians kept it on 14 Jan.; the Dominicans 15 Jan. At Salisbury, York, and Durham in England, and at Aberdeen in Scotland it was celebrated 7 Aug., at Liege, 31 Jan., at Compostela and Cambrai, 8 Jan. (Grotefend, "Zeitrechnung", II, 2. 89). The Carthusians obtained it for the second Sunday after Epiphany about 1643; for that Sunday it was also extended to Spain, and later, 20 Dec., 1721, to the Universal Church.

Prayer for the Feast of the Holy Name of Jesus - January 2

Lord Jesus, we humbly pray You to give us all a great reverence and respect for Your Most Holy Name. Forgive us for ever having used the Name of Jesus in vain, or without due respect.

Help us remember how reverently and lovingly Your Mother Mary used the Name of Jesus, and how humbly Saint Joseph called You and spoke to You by Name.

Your Name, dear Jesus, is above every other name in heaven or on earth, because You are the Jesus, the Savior of all men. You have saved us, and You have told us to ask God anything in Your Name, and it would be granted.

We ask You, humbly and confidently, to bless us and our work, and give us the rich treasures of Your divine grace, without which we cannot even so much as pronounce the Name of Jesus. Amen.

(National Catholic Rural Life Conference)

"Therefore God also highly exalted Him

and gave Him The Name

that is above every name,

so that at the Name of Jesus

every knee should bend,

in heaven and on earth and under the earth,

and every tongue should confess

that Jesus Christ is Lord,

to the glory of God the Father."

(Phillippians 2, vs 4-13.)

O LORD our Governor, *

how exalted is Your Name in all the world!

Out of the mouths of infants and children *

Your majesty is praised above the heavens.

You have set up a stronghold against your adversaries, *

to quell the enemy and the avenger.

When I consider your heavens, the work of Your fingers, *

the moon and the stars You have set in their courses,

What is man that You should be mindful of him? *

the son of man that You should seek him out?

You have made him but little lower than the angels; *

You adorn him with glory and honor;

You give him mastery over the works of your hands; *

You put all things under his feet:

All sheep and oxen, *

even the wild beasts of the field,

The birds of the air, the fish of the sea, *

and whatsoever walks in the paths of the sea.

O LORD our Governor, *

how exalted is Your Name in all the world!

(Psalm 8)