The Most Holy Name of Jesus

Christmas Weekday The Most Holy Name of Jesus 1 Jn 2:29—3:6/Jn 1:29-34 (206).

*The Adoration of the Name of Jesus – Greco.

The Holy Name of Jesus Christ, represented in Heaven by the Greek letters of the Savior’s name, IHS, is reverenced by souls and angels in Earth, Heaven, Purgatory, and Hell. This artwork appears to have been inspired by Phil. 2:10: “That in the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those that are in Heaven, on Earth, and under the Earth”. Artwork by El Greco.

**In Catholicism, the veneration Holy Name of Jesus (also Most Holy Name of Jesus, Italian: Santissimo Nome di Gesù) developed as a separate type of devotion in the Early modern period, in parallel to that of the Sacred Heart. The Litany of the Holy Name is a Roman-rite Catholic prayer, probably of the 15th century (Bernardino of Siena and John of Capistrano). The Feast of the Holy Name of Jesus was introduced in 1530.

The veneration of Nomina sacra in the form of variants of the Christogram has a tradition going back to early Christianity. Related practices of devotion exist in Eastern Christianity (c.f. Jesus Prayer). The feast day is celebrated either as the Feast of the Holy Name of Jesus or as that of Circumcision of Jesus, in various Christian churches.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Name_of_Jesus

The Lord has made proclamation to the ends of the earth: “Say to Daughter Zion, ‘See, your Savior comes! See, his reward is with him, and his recompense accompanies him.’ ”  

Is 62:11