Hi, my name is Father Mike Schmitz, and you're listening to the Catechism in a Year podcast,

where we encounter God's plan of sheer goodness for us, revealed in scripture, and passed down

through the tradition of the Catholic faith. The Catechism in a Year is brought to you by

Ascension. In 365 days, we'll read through the Catechism of the Catholic Church, discovering our identity in God's family as we journey together toward our heavenly home. It is Day 61. We're reading paragraphs 430 to 435, all about the name of Jesus, which is amazing. I'm using the Ascension edition of the Catechism, which includes the foundations of faith approach, but you can follow along with any recent version of the catechism of the Catholic Church. Also, you can download your catechism in your reading plan by visiting ascensionpress.com slash CIY. And lastly, you can click follow or subscribe in your podcast app for daily updates and daily notifications. As I said, you know, yesterday we talked about this. The heart of catechesis is Jesus Christ.

At the heart of catechesis, we find, in essence, a person. And that person is historical, right?

Jesus incarnate on this earth, but also eternal, the second person of the Trinity, the only son of the father.

And so today, in the next couple days, we're going to be talking about Jesus. And so specifically, today we talk about the name of Jesus. Tomorrow we'll talk about the title, Christ. Then we'll talk about how Jesus is referred to. He's described as the only

son of God. And lastly, before we end this section, we'll talk about Jesus is the Lord and what that

means. So, but today, today is talking we'll talk about Jesus is the Lord and what that means.

So, but today is talking about the name of Jesus.

And this is so I think, okay, I need to calm down.

I apologize.

It is such an incredible thing to be able to speak the name of Jesus.

One of the things that we just realize is the name of Jesus is his presence.

Whenever we say the name of Jesus, we call upon the Lord God and he is present with us.

In fact, the very end of this little section we're going through today in paragraph 435 will talk about how the name of Jesus is at the heart of Christian prayer.

Now, we'll begin with just noting what the name Jesus means. And it's Hebrew,

Yeshua, right, means God saves. And so here's the angel Gabriel that gave Jesus his proper name.

And yet, that is the name that has become the name above every other name. And we're going to hear and be reminded to the fact that in the Acts

of the Apostles chapter 4, it says there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we

must be saved. And the uniqueness of Jesus in the world, obviously because Jesus is fully God and

fully man. We're going to dive more deeply into that as time goes on.

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