12-05-2021 QUEEN OF ANGELS CHURCH
RITE OF CHRISTIAN INITIATION FOR ADULTS
“You have made us for yourself, O Lord, and our heart is restless
until it rests in you.”
St Augustine
Man's Response to God (CCC 143-184)
I Believe
25. How does man respond
to God who reveals himself?
142-143
Sustained by divine
grace, we respond to God with the obedience of faith, which means the full
surrender of ourselves to God and the acceptance of his truth insofar as it is
guaranteed by the One who is Truth itself.
26. Who are the
principal witnesses of the obedience of faith in the Sacred Scriptures?
144-149
There are many such
witnesses, two in particular: One is Abraham who when put to
the test “believed in God” (Romans 4:3) and always obeyed his call.
For this reason he is called “the Father of all who believe” (Romans 4:11-18).
The other is the Virgin Mary who, throughout her entire life,
embodied in a perfect way the obedience of faith: “Let it be done to me
according to your word” (Luke 1:38).
27. What does it mean in
practice for a person to believe in God?
150-152
176-178
It means to adhere to
God himself, entrusting oneself to him and giving assent to all the truths
which God has revealed because God is Truth. It means to believe in one God in
three Persons, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
28. What are the
characteristics of faith?
153-165
179-180
183-184
Faith is the
supernatural virtue which is necessary for salvation. It is
a free gift of God and is accessible to all who humbly seek
it. The act of faith is a human act, that is, an act of the
intellect of a person - prompted by the will moved by God - who freely assents
to divine truth. Faith is also certain because it is founded
on the Word of God; it works “through charity” (Galatians 5:6);
and it continually grows through listening to the Word of God
and through prayer. It is, even now, a foretaste of the joys
of heaven.
29. Why is there no
contradiction between faith and science?
159
Though faith is above
reason, there can never be a contradiction between faith and science because
both originate in God. It is God himself who gives to us the light both of
reason and of faith.
“I believe, in order
to understand; and I understand, the better to believe.” (Saint Augustine)
We Believe
30. Why is faith a
personal act, and at the same time ecclesial?
166-169
181
Faith is a personal act
insofar as it is the free response of the human person to God who
reveals himself. But at the same time it is an ecclesial act which expresses
itself in the proclamation, “We believe”. It is in fact the Church that
believes: and thus by the grace of the Holy Spirit precedes, engenders and
nourishes the faith of each Christian For this reason the Church is Mother
and Teacher.
“No one can have God
as Father who does not have the Church as Mother.” (Saint Cyprian)
31. Why are the formulas
of faith important?
170-171
The formulas of faith
are important because they permit one to express, assimilate, celebrate, and
share together with others the truths of the faith through a common language.
32. In what way is the
faith of the Church one faith alone?
172-175
182
The Church, although
made up of persons who have diverse languages, cultures, and rites, nonetheless
professes with a united voice the one faith that was received from the one Lord
and that was passed on by the one Apostolic Tradition. She confesses one God
alone, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, and points to one way of salvation.
Therefore we believe with one heart and one soul all that is contained in the
Word of God, handed down or written, and which is proposed by the
Church as divinely revealed.
Section Two
The Profession of the Christian Faith
The Creed
The Apostles’ Creed
I believe in God the
Father almighty,
Creator of heaven and earth.
And in Jesus Christ, His only Son,
our Lord, Who was conceived by the Holy Spirit,
born of the Virgin Mary,
suffered under Pontius Pilate,
was crucified, died, and was buried.
He descended into hell; the third day
He rose again from the dead;
He ascended into heaven, and sits at
the right hand of God the Father
almighty, from thence He shall come
to judge the living and the dead.
I believe in the Holy Spirit,
the holy Catholic Church,
the communion of saints,
the forgiveness of sins,
the resurrection of the body
and life everlasting.
Amen.
Symbolum Apostolicum
Credo in Deum Patrem omnipoténtem, Creatorem
cæli et terræ, et in Iesum Christum, Filium Eius unicum, Dominum nostrum,
qui concéptus est de Spíritu Sancto, natus ex Maria Virgine, passus sub Póntio
Piláto, crucifixus, mórtuus, et sepúltus, descéndit ad ínferos, tértia die
resurréxit a mórtuis, ascéndit ad cælos, sedet ad déxteram Dei Patris
omnipoténtis, inde ventúrus est iudicáre vivos et mórtuos.
Et in Spíritum Sanctum,
sanctam Ecclésiam cathólicam,
sanctórum communiónem,
remissiónem peccatórum,
carnis resurrectiónem,
vitam ætérnam. Amen.
The Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed
I believe in one God,
the Father, the Almighty,
maker of heaven and earth,
of all that is, seen and unseen.
I believe one Lord,
Jesus Christ,
the only Son of God,
eternally begotten of the Father,
God from God, Light from Light,
true God from true God,
begotten, not made,
one in Being with the Father.
Through Him all things were made.
For us men and for our
salvation,
He came down from heaven: by the
power of the Holy Spirit He was
born of the Virgin Mary,
and became Man.
For our sake He was
crucified
under Pontius Pilate;
He suffered, died, and was buried.
On the third day He rose
again
in fulfillment of the Scriptures;
He ascended into heaven,
and is seated at the right hand of the
Father. He will come again in glory
to judge the living and the dead,
and His kingdom will have no end.
I believe in the Holy
Spirit,
the Lord, the Giver of life,
Who proceeds from the Father and
the Son. With the Father and the Son
He is worshiped and glorified.
He has spoken through the prophets.
I believe in one, holy,
catholic,
and apostolic Church.
I acknowledge one
Baptism
for the forgiveness of sins.
I look for the resurrection of the dead,
and the life of the world to come.
Amen.
Symbolum Nicænum
Costantinopolitanum
Credo in unum Deum,
Patrem omnipoténtem,
Factorem cæli et terræ,
visibílium ómnium et invisibilium
Et in unum Dóminum Iesum
Christum,
Filium Dei unigénitum
et ex Patre natum
ante ómnia sǽcula:
Deum de Deo, Lumen de Lúmine,
Deum verum de Deo vero,
génitum, non factum, consubstantiálem Patri: per quem ómnia
facta sunt;
qui propter nos hómines
et propter nostram salútem,
descéndit de cælis, et incarnátus est
de Spíritu Sancto ex Maria Víirgine
et homo factus est, crucifíxus étiam
pro nobis sub Póntio Piláto, passus
et sepúltus est, et resurréxit tértia
die secúndum Scriptúras,
et ascéndit in cælum, sedet ad
déxteram Patris, et íterum ventúrus
est cum glória, iudicáre vivos et
mórtuos, cuius regni non erit finis.
Credo in Spíritum Sanctum, Dominum et vivificántem, qui ex Patre
Filióque procédit, qui cum Patre et
Fílio simul adorátur et conglorificátur, qui locútus est per prophétas.
Et unam sanctam cathólicam
et apostólicam Ecclésiam.
Confíteor unum Baptísma
in remissiónem peccatórum.
Et exspécto resurrectiónem mortuórum,
et vitam ventúri sæculi.
Amen.
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