Hallowed be Thy Name

This is the second in a series of communion meditations on the Lord’s Prayer

We began our consideration of the Lord’s Prayer with it’s opening words, “our Father who art in heaven”, and considered the wonder that the almighty God of the universe would be identified as the Father of sinners like you and me. This, of course, is why Jesus came.

Now we come to Jesus’ first petition in the prayer. Hallowed be thy name. What does it mean for the name of God to be hallowed? Hallowed isn’t exactly a word we use every day in the year 2026. It does still hold a place in our vocabulary, almost always in reference to a place. We might think of the Gettysburg battlefield as hallowed ground, or you might walk into a beautiful cathedral and think this place is hallowed ground, a hallowed place.