Unutterable Name News Today

One of the meditations in St. Ignatius’s Spiritual Exercises depicts the spiritual war between Jesus Christ and Lucifer, in which all men must choose...

For thousands of years Jews have refused to utter the special name of God. Christians have often misunderstood this radical response to the four lettered Hebrew tetragrammaton YHWH thinking that it’s because Jews don’t see God as close and intimate as they do with Jesus. What should a Christian say? Jewish insistence never to speak the Unutterable Name does not come from disengagement, but as a response to a deep-seated awe and wonder when standing in the presence of God. Their humility and...