The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-11-04
rHALLoWED BE THY NAME

= 'HAGEOWED BE THY NAME
The name of God is the expression
of the idea of God Himself, with all
His grandeur, His sanctity, His power
and His goodness: that is, it is God
Himself as we know, or ought to
know Him. Holy Scripture always
Himself, when it says that His name
is great, holy, terrible, glorious; and
we ourselves use this same form Of
speech, for when, for example, we
speak of the great namc of Washing
ton, Caesar or Napoleon we mean the
persons themselves who bore these
names. When we say. therefore,
'Hallowed be Thy name" we mean,
BE YOU yourself hallowed.' Aud
the word "halloWed' signifies TO
treat with respect; Ito know and
appreciate as holy that which is
holy" We pray, therefore. that
Gods name may be halloWed in this
sense, that we ourselves, and all
men, may render the service and the
homage that are due to Him Who is
the author of all ~sanctity, Who is
Sanctity itself,
When we bcseeCll the Almighty to
make His name hallowed or glorified,
we express the wish and desire that
He may triumph over the ignorance.
forgetfulnesg and impiety of men;
that He may shed the grace of know
ing Him and of loving Him over the
thousands of infidels who have eve
come to the knowledge of Him; yer
all the hGretiCs who refuse to worship
Him in the spirit of truth, clinging
to their rebellion and error; oyer tho
countless u%nfaithful Christians who
abuse their knowledge of Him to in
suit and offend Him; over the count
less blasphemers whose words, spoken
and written, are echoes of the i'm
pious ratings {, the fallen angels in
He'll.
This first petition Of the Our Father
is Il petition truly filial. since the first
duty of every obedieat and affection
ate child is to honor and see honored
his own father in his own home; d
one end and purpose of our " lives
and the life of every creature is to
glorify God. it becomes, however, u
petition, deriding and insulting, when
spoken by Christians who refuse to
honor their God in their thoughts,
words and actions: who show no
solicitude for the proper honor of
their Maker and Redeemer; who do
not hesitate or fear to profane His
sacred name, or who encourage,
rather than discourage, by their own
example the neglect and hatred of
His divine religion, as we'll as the
most fragrant violations of Ills holy
law.
Gods name, then, which signifies
God Himself, is to be hallowed by
ourselves; by others; by all men:
and especially by those who despise
and Contemn it, by those who from
their greater and more perfect knowl-
edge of God are thereby more particu-
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Gods name is to be hallowed by
His receiving from all creatures, our
selves included, honor and service III
their thoughts, words and actions,
that those who know God may glori-
fy Him as Cod (Romans i, 81. AS
the greatest saints did everything, ad
majorem Del gloriam, for the greater
glory of God" SO we pray that, by
d~edicating ourselves to His service:
by directing our lives according to His
holy will, by spreading the knowledge
OF God and By our W good example
attracting others to His religion, We
may bring Gods name to be more
honored and loved. st. Paul teaches
US that we may glorify God BY the
most common actions of our lives, il
they are done with the intention of
pleasing Him, and in the way He de-
sires: Whether you eat or drink,
or whatsoever you do, do all to the
glory of God" q Cor. X. 81.
It is u duty, then, to labor for the
hallowing and clarifying of God for
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the Our Father. We must strive with
all our strength for the realization
in the world of the external glory of
Our Creator. We can hallow, or glor-
lily Him in thought, by means OF a
good intention, the intention of doing
only what is pleasing to God and
through the n motive of promoting
His glory. We can glorify Him in
word. by observing faithfully the sec
ond commandment and always speak
ing %reverently of Him. We a glori.
fy Him by our actions, by giving
good example and thus edifying and
correcting those who are careless of
their duty toward their Maker.
Christ Himself commanded, Go let
your light shines before men. that
they may see your coed works and