HOLY NAME SOCIETY

This time line for the newer, present Society has now passed three decades; there have been nineteen presidents with John Thomas the current leader and Father Thomas Tuite their Spiritual Advisor. The active membership totals 203. During this period much has been accomplished for the parish and for the Society, liturgical as well as social. First and foremost, the primary objective of a Holy Name Society has been upheld, honor and glory to Our Lord God. Second, the spiritual challenges that this organization calls for have been continually met. The Society, since its 1975 renewal, has faithfully demonstrated its reverence for the Holy Name of Jesus. There is monthly “Holy Name Sunday” with Corporate Communion Mass proceeded by procession into the Mass, a Eucharistic celebration with its Spiritual Advisor as the Celebrant and this celebration, with the parish “Folk Group”, includes the time-honored Holy Name hymn “Holy God We Praise Thy Name” and the Mass is concluded with the recitation of “The Holy Name Pledge”. This national organizational pledge, our pledge recited in unison by a standing Society, has been said to be the most significant prayer ever composed for American men. Every sentence has a special meaning with praise for God and His Holy Name, Jesus Christ. The pledge is more than a profession of faith; it is a firm belief that Jesus Christ is the Son of the Living God. A significant aspect of our Holy Name Society is its visibility, a Society known to have set the moral tone for the parish. The spiritual practices of its members such as the Pledge, the wearing of the Holy Name insignia, the annual Communion Breakfast, the religious retreat at an outside venue, visits to an ill brother, prayers at a deceased brother’s wake, the “Honor Guard” at his Requiem Mass, the annual Memorial Mass for our deceased members are visible principles for the Christian community. Although the Society uses the parish monthly magazine “Dialogue” to communicate with the membership, the coming of the Internet, as a new faster means of relating news of (Read More)