February 21, 2013 – Catechism 2160 – 2167

This section is a review of the previous paragraphs. We talked about images of saints, God’s name, and the sacredness of our own name. When you look at how names are used in the Bible, they have an even greater importance. It has been described to me that the name of a person is their essence. When God changes a name, it means something significant to that person and who they are supposed to be. Abram to Abraham, Jacob to Israel, Simon to Peter. This last one, Peter becomes the rock, the foundation of the church. It was not just his name, but his vocation, his duty, his mission that changed. Saul to Paul, although I have been told that his name might not have changed as much as they were the same, just one was his Roman name and one his Jewish name and he used the Roman Paul because he went to evangelize the Gentiles. Still, the name had influence and showed a change in direction. Never forget that a name means t