Why Is Taking the Lord’s Name in Vain Wrong?

The Fr. Mike Schmitz Catholic Podcast

Ascension

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 16 January 2020

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

There is a beauty in the fact that God shares his very name with us. He gives us his name so that we can call upon him in prayer, hold him in our hearts, and know we are not alone.

Today, Fr. Mike discusses the importance of reverencing this name. While the world throws this holy title around, we are called to have awareness of the power and the goodness of God. Fr. Mike explains that in recognizing the meaning of names like God, Jesus, and Mary, we honor them and all they offer us. As we walk through life as God’s children, his name should never be regarded as an afterthought but instead considered one of the greatest gifts he has granted us.

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0:00.0	Holy smokes! Jeepers creepers! Oh my gosh, God bless America and all the ships at sea. Those are all decent things to say, right?
0:15.0	Hi, my name's Father Mike Schmitz, and this is Ascension Presents. I went as a kid my grandpa, I had a grandpa Barney as my mom's dad
0:21.0	I remember Barney instead of like cursing and instead of saying the Lord's name and vein
0:25.1	He might like he would start he would say God and then he would finish a sentence
0:29.5	He wouldn't say he wouldn't just say God like oh my God or he wouldn't just say God something something you know bad
0:34.4	He would say to catch himself you would say God
0:38.0	Bless America and all the ships at sea and I thought like that's a really funny thing
0:42.2	But I think what the story must have been. I don't know. Maybe just who he was around us
0:46.2	But I think the story must have been something along the lines that he had this habit
0:49.8	I'll take in the Lord's name and vein and he was trying to break that habit
0:52.9	So when he started to do it he didn't go all the way through he actually changed the meaning by making it be a prayer
1:00.2	God bless America and all the ships at sea
1:03.1	It's really interesting because my grandpa in that time in his life
1:07.4	He was taking something seriously that I think very very few of us take actually very seriously
1:13.8	There's a commandment that says thou shalt not take the name of the Lord your God in vain
1:17.7	It's not just one of the commandments
1:19.3	It's it's top 10 like it made the top 10 list in fact. It's not just one of the top 10
1:23.4	It made the top three lists. This is the these are these are commandments. These are sins directly against God the crazy thing is
1:30.5	how so many of us
1:33.5	Completely disregarded and don't think of it as anything
1:37.4	Important and I think in that way we've been kind of influenced a little bit by our culture because why because all around us
1:43.7	People are saying oh my God all around us people are saying the name of Jesus Christ all around us people are are taking the name of the Lord
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