We often take the name of Jesus for granted; failing to recognize its power and how uttering it with love can transform the heart and mind. It is of this we are reminded on the Feast of the Most Holy Name of Jesus!

“Jesus Name is a concrete and powerful way of transfiguring men in their deepest and most divine reality. The men and women we meet in the street, factory, office, and especially those who seem to be irritating and unlikable, let us go toward them with Jesus’ name in our heart and on our lips …If we see Jesus in each man, if we say ‘Jesus’ over each person, we will go through the world with a new vision and with a new gift in our heart. We can thus transform the world, as much as it is within us, and make our own the word Jacob spoke to his brother: ‘I saw your face and it was like seeing God’s face.’”

—Fr. Lev Gillet