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• On this feast of the Holy Name, we have the joy of inducting new members into the Holy Name Society. This Society was founded in the Middle Ages to help men increase their faith in the divinity of Our Lord Jesus Christ.
• One way in which this is done is by asking the members to respect the name of Our Lord and to foster respect for the name of Our Lord and good use of language in those around them.
• But the Society also wants to assist men in their belief in Our Lord’s divinity by having them live Sundays as Catholic men ought. There are eleven obligations for Holy Name members and four of them concern Sundays:
  • 6. Never to work or carry on business unnecessarily on Sunday.
  • 7. To do all they can to induce their dependents to sanctify the Sunday.
  • 9. Communicating in a body on Holy Name Sundays.
  • 11. Staying after Mass on Holy Name Sundays to have a meeting.
• One of the basic means we must employ to restore society is living Sunday in the way that it should be lived.
  • we must try not to allow the spirit of the world to seep into our souls such that, while we go to Mass on Sundays, we still live Sundays in a secular spirit.
  • we must try to have a Catholic mentality about the true meaning of Sunday and then try to live out that mentality every seven days.

• Sunday is a period of time that we set aside as the property of God. It is a consecration of time. Just as, when a church is consecrated, the territory on which the church rests and the building of the church itself are set aside exclusively for the use of God, so too with Sunday. It is a time that is set aside for God.
• It is easy today for us to see Sunday as just the day that we have to go to Mass and not as a day consecrated to God. Under this mentality, once we go to Mass, we have the rest of the day for ourselves. People who have this mentality are more likely to:
  • Go to the shortest Mass possible
  • Leave as soon as possible after Mass without talking to people or hanging out
  • Spend the rest of the day in worldly entertainment
• They fulfill the letter of the Sunday obligation, but they do not have the spirit of Sunday.
• Whenever God asks us to do something, it is not only because He deserves that we do what He asks; it is also because what He asks is good for us.
• We need to keep holy the Lord’s Day not only to fulfill a commandment; we need to do it in order to live a properly human life, and for our freedom.