We invite you to join us for this New Year's Day Eucharist celebrating the Naming of Jesus. The significance of this feast day is provided below by our very own, The Rev. Monica Romig-Green:
When the eighth day came, it was time to circumcise the child, and he was called Jesus, the name given by the angel before he was conceived in the womb. – Luke 2:21
On this day, we celebrate the occasion when the Holy Family gave the newborn Christ Child his name: Jesus. This happened eight days after his birth, during his circumcision rite, as is the Jewish custom. St. Luke notes the significance of this naming because it fulfills what the angel told Mary during the Annunciation, that her child would be called the Son of God. The name Jesus is a Greek form of the Hebrew name Yeshu (or Joshua), which means “Yahweh saves.” By celebrating the Naming of Jesus each year, the church declares once again that Jesus is our Saviour, the One to whom God gave the name that is above every other name and that at that name, every knee should bend and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord (Phil 2:9-13).