Tree of Life Cross with Enamel Inlay

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This Tree of Life Cross with Enamel Inlay features an elegant design, with vivid and stunning blue and red enamel inlays. This timeless design features the Tree of Life, with its connotations of growth, life and creation, as well as the Chi-Rho symbol, a historically rich abbreviation for Christ. At 4.5 inches in length, this gorgeous and reverent bronze wall cross makes an eye-catching addition to your living room, bedroom, study or office. It is also makes a stunning pectoral cross in liturgical settings.

A Bronze Wall Cross from France with Enamel Inlay

This beautiful Tree of Life Cross with Enamel Inlay makes an excellent gift for special occasions: birthday, baptism, first communion, confirmation, wedding or wedding anniversary, ordination or ordination anniversary, graduation or housewarming. The Tree of Life Cross with Enamel Inlay is a gift of real heirloom quality that will be treasured and displayed prominently for many years to come.

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The Sacred Name of God

Names have real power in the Bible. There, a vital connection exists between the name and the person named. A name represents in some way the very nature of the person named. This is especially true with regards to the very name of God. The tetragrammaton (יהוה–YHWH – Yahweh)– for the name of God in Hebrew – is so sacred that it must never be said outloud. Rather, the title Adonai (My Lord) is to be used whenever mentioning or praying to God (for more on this, go to History/Story tab). But the name of Jesus and his title, far from being left unspoken, are now to be exalted (Philippians 2:6-11):

Christ Jesus, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped at; rather, he made himself nothing by taking the form of a slave, being made in human likeness. And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to death-even death on a cross! Therefore God exalted him to the highest place and gave him the name above every name so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue proclaim that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

The Chi-Rho at the center of this cross is an abbreviation for the title “Christ.” Chi (Χ) and Rho (P) are the first two Greek letters of ΧΡΙΣΤΟΣ (Christos). Christos – Christ – means “anointed one” in Greek. “Christ” in Hebrew is “Messiah” (משיח).

Yahweh–Too Sacred to Use?

The Catholic Church never used the name Yahweh in liturgical texts or bibles before Vatican II, after which it began to see limited use in the Jerusalem Bible and certain contemporary hymns. In 2001, the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments directed that the word Lord and its equivalent in other languages be used instead. In 2007, Pope Benedict XVI ordered the Pontificial Biblicial Commission to investigate whether the use of the name Yahweh was offensive to Jewish groups, and in 2008 the Vatican recommended against the use of the word in new bibles and prohibited its continued use in vernacular worship. In the King James Version and many older versions of the Bible, the transliteration JHVH is translated as Jehovah in some places, but almost all modern Bibles substitute “the Lord” or “God” for the tetragrammaton, although the Sacred Name Movement, active since the 1930s, promotes the use of the name Yahweh in Bible translations and in liturgy.

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