Thy Name be Sanctified

"Repeat this exultation, grateful and just praise to the Holy of Holies with the same movement as the seraphim and the choirs of Angels, whom you join to exalt the name of the Eternal. Repeat it thinking of me, God Son of God, who first told you with supreme veneration and supreme love. Repeat it in joy and in pain, in light and in Darkness, in Peace and in War. Blessed are those children who never doubted the Father and who, at every hour, at every event, have known how to say to Him: "Thy Name be sanctified!"

Evolution of the wording :

• Latin: sanctificétur Nomen Tuum;
• Before 1966: that your name be sanctified,
• Current: thy name be sanctified,

"Commenting on this petition, the first of the Our Father, Pope Francis notes two components that we find in the work of Maria Valtorta: the splendor of the Father that Jesus alone knows and wants to share with us, and the necessity that we, by our testimony, be the reflection, not the caricature, of this splendor:

In this petition — the first! “Thy Name be sanctified!” — one feels all the admiration of Jesus for the Goodness and greatness of the Father, and the desire that all recognize and love Him for who He really is. And, at the same time, there is the plea that His name be sanctified in us, in our Family, in our community, in the whole world. It is God who sanctifies, who transforms us by His love; but, at the same time, it is also us who, by our testimony, manifest the holiness of God in the world, by making His name present. God is holy, but if we, if our life is not holy, there is a great inconsistency! The holiness of God must be reflected in our Actions, in our life. “I am Christian, God is holy, but I do many bad things,” no, that is useless. It even harms; it scandalizes and does not help (General Audience of February 27, 2019).

This same concern is expressed in the Catechism of the Catholic Church: God's work is accomplished for us and in us only if His Name is sanctified by us and in us (CCC § 2808). This is recalled by Scripture on false witness: "you who trust in the Law, you dishonor God by transgressing the Law, for as Scripture says, 'because of you, the name of God is blasphemed among the nations.'"

In Maria Valtorta

During the giving of the Our Father

It is Good the affection of Jesus for His Father that shines through in His commentary, but it is also the beatific and prophetic vision of the praise of an entire people: In EMV 203.7 :

"Thy Name be sanctified." Oh! Name, more than any other, holy and sweet, Name that the terror of the guilty taught you to veil under another name. No, no more Adonai, no more. It is God. It is the God who, in an excess of love, created humanity. May the Humanity of the Future, with lips purified by the bath I prepare, know His Name, reserving to understand with full wisdom the meaning of the Incomprehensible when, melted with Him, Humanity with the best of its children will be raised to the Kingdom I have come to found-

EMV 364.7 - Let us pray: Our Father who art in Heaven, that Thy Name be sanctified by all Humanity! To know Him is to go towards holiness. Make the Gentiles and the pagans know Your existence, O holy Father, and, like the three wise men of a now distant but not inert time, for nothing connected to the advent of Redemption in the world is inert, let them come to God, to You, Father, guided by the Star of Jacob, by the Morning Star, by the King and Redeemer of the race of David, by the One You have anointed, already offered and consecrated to be the Victim for the sins of the world.  

EMV 630.22 - "Let Thy Kingdom come” after invoking it so that your works sanctify the Name of the Lord by giving Him glory on Earth and in Heaven."

Catechesis of July 7, 1943 - "Thy Name be sanctified".    Repeat this exultation, grateful and just praise to the Holy of Holies with the same movement as the seraphim and the choirs of Angels, whom you join to exalt the name of the Eternal. Repeat it thinking of me, God Son of God, who first told you with supreme veneration and supreme love. Repeat it in joy and in pain, in light and in Darkness, in Peace and in War. Blessed are those children who have never doubted the Father[On the word ‘Father’, Maria Valtorta notes in pencil and in parentheses, ‘spiritual’.] and who, at every hour, at every event, have known how to say to Him: "Thy Name be sanctified!"

To go further

• Our Father
• Our Father who art in Heaven
• Thy Kingdom come
• Thy Will be done on earth as it is in Heaven
• Give us this day our daily bread
• Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us
• Lead us not into temptation
• But deliver us from evil

In the Catechism

https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/__PA1.HTM

I. Thy Name be Sanctified

2807 The term "sanctify" here must be understood, not primarily in its causative sense (God alone sanctifies, makes holy) but especially in an estimative sense: to recognize as holy, to treat in a holy way. Thus, in ADoration, this invocation is sometimes understood as praise and thanksgiving (cf. Ps 111, 9; Lk 1, 49). But this petition is taught to us by Jesus as an optative: a request, a desire and expectation in which God and man are engaged. From the first petition in the Our Father, we are plunged into the intimate mystery of His Divinity and the drama of the salvation of our humanity. To ask that His Name be sanctified involves us in "the Good Will that He had formed beforehand" so that "we should be holy and blameless before Him in love" (cf. Eph 1, 9, 4).

2808 At decisive moments of His Economy, God reveals His Name, but He reveals it by accomplishing His work. Now this work is accomplished for us and in us only if His Name is sanctified by us and in us.

2809 The Holiness of God is the inaccessible hearth of His eternal mystery. What is manifested in creation and history, Scripture calls "Glory," the radiance of His Majesty (cf. Ps 8; Is 6, 3). By making man "in His image and likeness" (Gn 1, 26), God "crowns him with glory" (Ps 8, 6), but by sinning man is "deprived of the Glory of God" (Rm 3, 23). Hence, God will manifest His Holiness by revealing and giving His Name, in order to restore man "to the image of his Creator" (Col 3, 10).

2810 In the promise made to Abraham, and the oath that accompanies it (cf. Heb 6, 13), God binds Himself but without unveiling His Name. It is to Moses that He begins to reveal it (cf. Ex 3, 14) and He manifests it before all the people by saving them from the Egyptians: "He was covered with Glory" (Ex 15, 1). Since the Sinai Covenant, this people is "His" and must be a "holy nation" (or consecrated, it is the same word in Hebrew: cf. Ex 19, 5-6) because the Name of God dwells in it.

2811 However, despite the holy Law that the Holy God continually gives him (cf. Lv 19, 2: "Be holy, for I am holy, your God"), and although the Lord "for His Name’s sake" is patient, the people turn away from the Holy One of Israel and "profanes His Name among the nations" (cf. Ez 20; 36). That is why the righteous of the Old Covenant, the poor returned from exile, and the prophets were burned by the passion for the Name.

2812 Finally, it is in Jesus that the Name of the Holy God is revealed and given to us, in the flesh, as Savior (cf. Mt 1, 21; Lk 1, 31): revealed by who He Is, by His Word and by His Sacrifice (cf. Jn 8, 28; 17, 8; 17, 17-19). It is the heart of His priestly prayer: "Holy Father ... for them I consecrate myself, so that they also may be consecrated in truth" (Jn 17, 19). It is because He "sanctifies" His Name Himself (cf. Ez 20, 39; 36, 20-21) that Jesus "manifests" to us the Name of the Father (Jn 17, 6). At the end of His Passover, the Father gives Him the Name above all names: Jesus is Lord to the glory of God the Father (cf. Phil 2, 9-11).

2813 In the Water of Baptism, we have been "washed, sanctified, justified in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God" (1 Co 6, 11). Throughout our life, the Our Father "calls us to sanctification" (1 Th 4, 7), and, since it is "by Him that we are in Christ Jesus, Who has become for us sanctification" (1 Co 1, 30), it concerns His Glory and our life that His Name be sanctified in us and by us. Such is the urgency of our first petition.

Who could sanctify God, since He sanctifies Himself? But inspired by the word ‘Be holy, because I am Holy’ (Lv 20, 26), we ask that, sanctified by Baptism, we persevere in what we have begun to be. And we ask this every day, because we sin daily and must purify our sins by a sanctification that is continually renewed... Thus, we turn to prayer so that this holiness remains in us (St. Cyprian, Dom. orat. 12: PL 4, 526A-527A).

2814 It inseparably depends on our life and our prayer that His Name be sanctified among the nations:

We ask God to sanctify His Name because it is through holiness that He saves and sanctifies all creation... It concerns the Name that brings salvation to the lost world, but we ask that this Name of God be sanctified in us 'through our life.' For if we live well, The Divine Name is blessed; but if we live badly, it is blasphemed, according to the word of the Apostle: ‘The Name of God is blasphemed on your account among the nations’ (Rm 2, 24; Ez 36, 20-22). Therefore, we pray to deserve to have in our Souls as much holiness as the name of our God is holy (St. Peter Chrysologus, sermon 71: PL 52, 402A).

When we say ‘Thy Name be sanctified,’ we ask that it be sanctified in us, who are in Him, but also in others whom the Grace of God still awaits, so as to comply with the precept obliging us to ‘pray for all’, even for our Enemies. That is why we do not expressly say: Thy Name be sanctified ‘in us,’ because we ask that it be in all men (Tertullian, or. 3).

2815 This petition, which contains them all, is fulfilled by the prayer of Christ, like the six other petitions that follow. Prayer to the Our Father is our prayer if it is prayed "in the Name" of Jesus (cf. Jn 14, 13; 15, 16; 16, 24, 26). Jesus asks in His priestly prayer: "Holy Father, keep in Your Name those You have given Me" (Jn 17, 11).

The Gospel as it was revealed to me (Maria Valtorta).