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The widespread rejection of the Catholic Faith in favor of atheistic secularism makes apostasy vulnerable to an ageless counter-attack: the precepts of the Apostles’ Creed.
The Creed provokes our conscience and restores our balance as Catholics in tumultuous times. The Creed summarizes the Catholic Faith. Enhanced by “talking points,” we can use the Creed to present the entirety of Faith in less than an hour (for marriage and baptismal preparation, parental catechetical meetings, apologetics—and conversations with faithless prelates).
I believe in God, the Father almighty.
God is without beginning and end.
God is Three-Persons-in-One, the Blessed Trinity.
Pentecost is the final chapter of God’s self-revelation.
Creator.
God creates all things through His all-powerful Word, begotten not made, and in one substance with the Father.
Creation cannot improve the infinitely perfect love of the Blessed Trinity.
Notwithstanding, God shares His love by creating us.
Selfless generosity is inherent to the Blessed Trinity.
Creator of heaven.
God created heaven as the domain of the angels.
The angels are pure spirits created with free will.
Led by Lucifer, some angels rebel and reject God’s supremacy.
Saint Michael the Archangel and his angels cast the rebellious angels into hell.
Creator of earth.
God created the world as the blissful domain of man.
God created man—male and female—in His image and likeness.
God created man to live in Paradise according to man’s nature as embodied spirit.
God reveals the marriage between man and woman as natural.
God commands the first married couple to have babies: “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; and have dominion.”
Adam—as a male—lovingly mediates God’s love to Eve.
Eve lovingly receives the love of God through Adam.
God destines man in original holiness to be fully “divinized” in glory.(CCC 398)
The tree of life sustains their bliss in Paradise.
God presents the “tree of the knowledge of good and evil.”
The tree is His first covenant, honoring man’s freedom.
Continued below.
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The Creed provokes our conscience and restores our balance as Catholics in tumultuous times. The Creed summarizes the Catholic Faith. Enhanced by “talking points,” we can use the Creed to present the entirety of Faith in less than an hour (for marriage and baptismal preparation, parental catechetical meetings, apologetics—and conversations with faithless prelates).
I believe in God, the Father almighty.
God is without beginning and end.
God is Three-Persons-in-One, the Blessed Trinity.
Pentecost is the final chapter of God’s self-revelation.
Creator.
God creates all things through His all-powerful Word, begotten not made, and in one substance with the Father.
Creation cannot improve the infinitely perfect love of the Blessed Trinity.
Notwithstanding, God shares His love by creating us.
Selfless generosity is inherent to the Blessed Trinity.
Creator of heaven.
God created heaven as the domain of the angels.
The angels are pure spirits created with free will.
Led by Lucifer, some angels rebel and reject God’s supremacy.
Saint Michael the Archangel and his angels cast the rebellious angels into hell.
Creator of earth.
God created the world as the blissful domain of man.
God created man—male and female—in His image and likeness.
God created man to live in Paradise according to man’s nature as embodied spirit.
God reveals the marriage between man and woman as natural.
God commands the first married couple to have babies: “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; and have dominion.”
Adam—as a male—lovingly mediates God’s love to Eve.
Eve lovingly receives the love of God through Adam.
God destines man in original holiness to be fully “divinized” in glory.(CCC 398)
The tree of life sustains their bliss in Paradise.
God presents the “tree of the knowledge of good and evil.”
The tree is His first covenant, honoring man’s freedom.
Continued below.
A Very Short Course in the Catholic Faith
Enhanced by “talking points,” we can use the Creed to present the entirety of Faith in less than an hour.
www.catholicculture.org
