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The Creed

The Creed is the faith in a few lines, said every Sunday. These pages go through it slowly: the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit, the Church, and the life to come.

  1. What a Creed Is Why Christians sum up their faith in a creed, where the Apostles' and Nicene Creeds come from, and what it means to say "I believe".
  2. God the Father The first article of the Creed: one God in three Persons, the Father almighty, who made everything out of nothing and out of love.
  3. Jesus Christ The heart of the Creed: who Jesus is, true God and true man, and what he did for us in his life, death, resurrection and ascension.
  4. The Holy Spirit Who the Holy Spirit is, a divine Person and not a force, how he acts in Scripture, and how he works in the Church, the sacraments and our prayer.
  5. The Church What Catholics mean by "one, holy, catholic and apostolic", why a Church of sinners is called holy, and how the pope and bishops serve it.
  6. The Life of the World to Come The Creed's last lines: forgiveness, the resurrection of the body, judgment, heaven, purgatory and hell, the new creation, and the final Amen.

Awaiting review The articles in this library are awaiting review by a priest. Until then, read them alongside the Catechism paragraphs they cite, and take questions to your parish.

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A library for deepening the Catholic faith, named for St Carlo Acutis (1991–2006), who used the web to show people the Eucharist.

Scripture quotations are from the Revised Standard Version of the Bible, Catholic Edition.

Excerpts from the English translation of the Catechism of the Catholic Church for use in the United States of America copyright © 1994, United States Catholic Conference, Inc.–Libreria Editrice Vaticana. English translation of the Catechism of the Catholic Church: Modifications from the Editio Typica copyright © 1997, United States Catholic Conference, Inc.–Libreria Editrice Vaticana.

Excerpts from the English translation of The Roman Missal © 2010, International Commission on English in the Liturgy Corporation. All rights reserved.

The illustrations in The Mass are those of the book it is set from, Rahasia Indah Dibalik Misa.

Compendium of the Catechism of the Catholic Church © 2005 Libreria Editrice Vaticana. Kompendium Katekismus Gereja Katolik © 2009 Konferensi Waligereja Indonesia and Penerbit Kanisius, translated by Harry Susanto, SJ.

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