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This is simply and basically an act of worship. Because he is our Father in heaven we offer him homage, worship, praise and adoration. To say \u2018Holy is your Name\u2019 is to root our prayer in the first and essential act of worship. Why this is so\u2013a bit more later. But first notice that we say that His name is Holy. Why would this be? For several reasons. First of all, for the ancient people a person\u2019s name expressed his identity, and if his identity, then his destiny and his source of being. The name is the person, so in saying His name is Holy we are saying that the essence of His being is Holy. In other words, God is not just holy. He is holiness itself. It\u2019s his name. It\u2019s who He is, not just the way he behaves.<\/p>\n

Then we remember what his name actually is and we recall from the burning bush that His name is \u2018I AM\u2019. That is to say, He is Being itself. He is the ontological ground of all things. He WAS HE IS HE IS TO COME, and the essence of this ontological reality is goodness above all goodness which is what we call Holy. In the face of this we cry with the angel hosts, \u201cHoly, Holy, Holy Lord God of Hosts\u201d. The Trisagion for the Trinity. The Sanctus Three time for He who is Three times Holy.<\/p>\n

Enough of names and holiness. We say simply \u2018Hallowed be Thy Name\u2019 or \u201cYour name is Holy\u201d because in proclaiming this praise we are at the same time responding in the only way we can respond in the face of the Holy and that is with worship. Why do we worship? Is it because we must grovel to please the Mighty One? Are we timorous wee beasties\u2013mice before the Eternal Tiger? Are we shivering travellers like Dorothy, the Tin Man, the Scarecrow and the Lion in the face of the Great and Terrible Oz? I think not.<\/p>\n

No. We worship because as holiness is of His essence, so obeisance is of ours. We worship the Creator because we are creatures and it is in this simple action that we become who we are and we move toward what we were created to be. In worship I am the child of the Father. In worship I adore the one I was created to adore. In worship I am suddenly in a right relationship with the Creator, and so I am oriented aright toward other people and indeed to the whole world.<\/p>\n

Does this sound demeaning to my human dignity? Now I am worried because there was one who held his head high and said, \u201cNon Serviam\u201d. No, in fact, as I worship my true human dignity is fulfilled and magnified, for we become like the thing we worship and to quote the Fathers, \u201cGod became Man so that man could become like God.\u201d Therefore when I worship I am Adam restored\u2026man moving toward perfection and I am reminded that the only way to make real progress toward my destiny is on my knees.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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