{"id":3070,"date":"2008-01-04T03:52:06","date_gmt":"2008-01-04T03:52:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/2008\/01\/sed-quid-invenientibus\/"},"modified":"2020-01-05T08:52:31","modified_gmt":"2020-01-05T08:52:31","slug":"sed-quid-invenientibus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/2008\/01\/sed-quid-invenientibus\/","title":{"rendered":"Sed quid invenientibus?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Among the Cistercians<\/strong>
\nA tender and burning love for the Holy Name of Jesus found expression in the lyrical preaching of Saint Bernard and the other twelfth century Cistercian Fathers. In the medieval Cistercian pharmacy of souls, the Name of Jesus was the miracle medicine: the antidote for coldness of heart, bitterness, sadness, fear, lust, greed, vengeance, and every manner of spiritual ill. Today\u2019s Office includes a hymn long attributed to Saint Bernard: Iesu, Dulcis Memoria<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n

Thirteenth Century<\/strong>
\nIn the thirteenth century, the sweetness of the Name of Jesus inebriated Saint Gertrude and the other Helfta mystics. The itinerant preaching of the Friars, both Franciscan and Dominican, introduced devotion to the Sacred Name to the hearts and homes of lay Christians great and small. The Archconfraternity of the Holy Name, known in the United States as the Holy Name Society<\/a>, grew out of the labours of Saint Bernardino of Siena and Saint John of Vercelli, both ardent apostles of the Name of Jesus.<\/p>\n

Richard Rolle<\/strong>
\nMy favourite representative of devotion to the Holy Name of Jesus is the delightfully eccentric and utterly incandescent Richard Rolle, a mystic of fourteenth century England. Richard Rolle associated the Name of Jesus with three things: calor<\/em>, heat; dulcor<\/em>, sweetness; and canor<\/em>, song. Listen to his teaching:<\/p>\n

If you will be well with God, and have grace to rule your life,
\nand come to the joy of love:
\nthis name Jesus, fasten it so fast in your heart
\nthat it come never out of your thought.
\nAnd when you speak to him, and through custom say, “Jesus,”
\nit shall be in your ear, joy;
\nin your mouth; honey;
\nand in your heart, melody:
\nfor men shall think joy to hear that name be named,
\nsweetness to speak it, mirth, and song to think it.
\nIf you think the name “Jesus” continually, and hold it firmly,
\nit purges your sin, and kindles your heart;
\nit clarifies your soul, it removes anger and does away slowness.
\nIt wounds in love and fulfills charity.
\nIt chases the devil, and puts out dread.
\nIt opens heaven, and makes a contemplative man.
\nHave Jesus in mind, for that puts all vices and phantoms out from the lover.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Into Modern Times<\/strong>
\nThe spirituals of the Grand Si\u00e8cle<\/em>\u2019s mystical invasion \u2014 B\u00e9rulle, Olier, Marie de l\u2019Incarnation and a multitude of others \u2014 were enamoured of the Sacred Name of Jesus. Practices and devotions proliferated in honour of the Holy Name. Across the Channel, persecuted Irish Catholics and English recusants sustained their faith by repeating the invocation: Ihesu, Ihesu, Ihesu, esto mihi Jhesus<\/em>, \u201cJesus, Jesus, Jesus, be to me a Jesus.\u201d At the Carmel of Tours in the nineteenth century, Sister Marie de Saint-Pierre and her lay collaborator, Monsieur Dupont, joined the Name of Jesus to the Holy Face in a popular movement of reparation and adoration that continues into the present day.<\/p>\n

No Other Name<\/strong>
\nIn every generation the Holy Spirit has whispered the adorable Name of Jesus to the Churches, inspiring new expressions of what remains unchanged from age to age, the confession of Saint Peter in the Acts of the Apostles: \u201cThere is salvation in no one else, for there is no other Name under heaven<\/a> given among men by which we must be saved\u201d (Ac 4:12).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Among the Cistercians A tender and burning love for the Holy Name of Jesus found expression in the lyrical preaching of Saint Bernard and the other twelfth century Cistercian Fathers. In the medieval Cistercian pharmacy of souls, the Name of Jesus was the miracle medicine: the antidote for coldness of heart, bitterness, sadness, fear, lust, <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christmastide"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paVypq-Nw","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3070"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3070"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22062,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3070\/revisions\/22062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}