Happy 8th Day of Christmas!
Today the Church also remembers the Holy Name of Jesus, the feast of the naming of the child Jesus; as recounted in the Gospel read on that day, "at the end of eight days, when he was circumcised, he was called Jesus, the name given by the angel before he was conceived in the womb."
The faithful are called to contemplate again this wondrous mystery: that the one who called the galaxies, stars, and worlds into being, and gave each a name, loved us so much that he became vulnerable to us, entrusted himself to us as an infant, and allowed us to give him a name.
So today we call upon the Incarnate holy child, the Prince of Peace, to came among us again, to bring peace to our confused, lost, yet ultimately loved human family, and call us each by our true name: beloved, redeemed, holy, child of God.
