Third Sunday in Lent, March 15
Exodus 20:1-17. I am your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, that place of slavery…You shall not take the name of the Lord, your God, in vain…
| I say, if one
knows anything in God and affixes any name to it, that is not God...God is above
names and above nature...And here we should learn, firstly, how to pray to God. We
should say: “Lord, in the same names which you have thus consecrated in the hearts
of your saints and flooded with your light, we pray to you and extol you.” Secondly,
we should learn not to give God any name with the idea that we had thereby
sufficiently honoured and magnified God: for God is above names and ineffable. - Meister Eckhart, O.P., Dominican Mystic (1260-1327) |