Is latria (the highest form of worship) due to the Names of God and Jesus?

[nahbios]

I love the beautiful ‘Golden Arrow’ prayer. However, I’ve been wondering in what sense the words ‘adorable’ and ‘adored’ are meant when they are used within the prayer.

The prayer is as follows:
“May the most holy, most sacred, most adorable, most incomprehensible and ineffable Name of God be forever praised, blessed, loved, adored and glorified in Heaven, on earth, and under the earth, by all the creatures of God, and by the Sacred Heart of Our Lord Jesus Christ, in the Most Holy Sacrament of the Altar. Amen.”

Is latria due to the Names of God and Jesus? Or do we simply venerate Their Names? I understand that we give latria to the Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity of Christ, as well as to His Bodily aspects, such as His Sacred Head, His Precious Wounds, His Precious Blood, His Holy Face, and so on. Since His Name is not a part of His Body, I’m unsure as to whether it is adored in terms of latria or…hyperdulia, perhaps?

I’ve searched online for a few hours, but I can’t find an answer to my question. Maybe I’m just not using the search engines right…

Thanks for reading and, in advance, for any help. God bless…

 

[JimG]

The prayer makes reference to “the ineffable Name of God.” “Ineffable” means, that which cannot be spoken or even understood. So I think that in speaking of the ineffable Name of God we speak of God himself, whom we worship in the highest form of adoration–latria.

When Moses asked God’s name, he answered “I Am Who Am.” That can be understood–or not, in a number o ways, i.e. I am He Who IS, I am he whose essence is existence, or simply, my name cannot be spoken or understood by humans because my name is me.

In the Eucharist we worship the Person of Jesus Christ because he is a divine Person, the second Person of the Trinity, and is God.

 

[JerBear_Meaux]

The prayer makes reference to “the ineffable Name of God.” “Ineffable” means, that which cannot be spoken or even understood. So I think that in speaking of the ineffable Name of God we speak of God himself, whom we worship in the highest form of adoration–latria.

When Moses asked God’s name, he answered “I Am Who Am.” That can be understood–or not, in a number o ways, i.e. I am He Who IS, I am he whose essence is existence, or simply, my name cannot be spoken or understood by humans because my name is me.

In the Eucharist we worship the Person of Jesus Christ because he is a divine Person, the second Person of the Trinity, and is God.

and I am the way and the truth and the life

 

[mercytruth]

I love the beautiful ‘Golden Arrow’ prayer. However, I’ve been wondering in what sense the words ‘adorable’ and ‘adored’ are meant when they are used within the prayer.

The prayer is as follows:
“May the most holy, most sacred, most adorable, most incomprehensible and ineffable Name of God be forever praised, blessed, loved, adored and glorified in Heaven, on earth, and under the earth, by all the creatures of God, and by the Sacred Heart of Our Lord Jesus Christ, in the Most Holy Sacrament of the Altar. Amen.”

Is latria due to the Names of God and Jesus? Or do we simply venerate Their Names? I understand that we give latria to the Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity of Christ, as well as to His Bodily aspects, such as His Sacred Head, His Precious Wounds, His Precious Blood, His Holy Face, and so on. Since His Name is not a part of His Body, I’m unsure as to whether it is adored in terms of latria or…hyperdulia, perhaps?

I’ve searched online for a few hours, but I can’t find an answer to my question. Maybe I’m just not using the search engines right…

Thanks for reading and, in advance, for any help. God bless…

Yes, I think it is. It is from the Greek word pronounced 'latreuo, or ‘latreia’. **Latreuo **in the NT is used aproximately 26 times and is usually translated as serve, or worship, as in the liturgical service, or worship of God.

Proskuneo is used much more frequently in the NT, but it has more to do with the act of making homage.

Sebomai is used less frequently than either. It seems to be also related to the act of liturgical worship, but not sure.

In the combined writings of Luke (7 times) and the writer to the epistle to the Hebrews (8 times) 'latreuo is used about 15 times out of a total of 26 times in the NT. While the remaining eleven are found mostly in the other epistles of Paul… So, this is one possible reason to think that the epistle to the Hebrews was written either by the apostle Paul, or by the evangelist Luke (possibly to the Greek speaking Christian Jews of Alexandria).

So, to answer your question, I would think from the perspective of the NT, latreuo is more likely to be associated with the ineffable, or sacred name of God, and hence ‘latria’ is the Latin carry over from that understanding. (By the way, it is a wonderful prayer)

World English Dictionary
latria (ləˈtraɪə)

—noun
RC Church, theol the adoration that may be offered to God alone

[C16: via Latin from Greek latreia worship]

dictionary.reference.com/browse/latria

God’s peace

Micah

 

[oval]

I think when God said…I am who I am…

The reality of the matter-God…is that God is not up for a translation…a translation is a relative changing-growing thing which presumes motion in premise through our time -space thing…hence names for people. We grow toward our intended finest(hopefully) and this is a relative thing to some degree amongst us… God would be God…I am who I am. At any given time your soul is who your soul is…the difference would be in the souls ability to gain in measure.

God would be apart from a subjection to time-space. Time space may contain an element of God or and extending consequence of God himself…and therefore a possible real effect in order by a mysterious way for todays thinking.

When people say prayers, don’t forget even the utterance of words in mind without full and absolute comprehension will impact the unconscious …what we suggest to ourselves in part by behavior and choice, plays an important role in forming-developing who we are. Every moment of every day adds to the whole in who we are.

 

[Sonny_Jim]

“Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him** the name which is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord**, to the glory of God the Father”

-Phillipians 2:9-11

I would say yes.

 

[nahbios]

Many thanks to each of you for your (name removed by moderator)ut. May God bless you and yours richly!