Articles of Faith

• Compassionate Lord, we pray for those who have been devastated by recent natural disasters.
• We remember those who have lost their lives so suddenly.
• We hold in our hearts the families forever changed by grief and loss.
• Bring them consolation and comfort.
• Surround them with our prayer for strength.
• Bless those who have survived and heal their memories of trauma and devastation.
• May they have the courage to face the long road of rebuilding ahead.
• We ask your blessing on all those who have lost their homes, their livelihoods, their security and their hope.
• Keep our hearts focused on the needs of those affected, even after the crisis is over.
• We ask your blessing on all those who have lost their homes, their livelihoods, their security and their hope.
• May their work be guided by the grace and strength that comes from You alone.
• Help us to respond with generosity in prayer, in assistance, in aid to the best of our abilities.
• We ask this in Jesus' name.
• Bless the work of relief agencies and those providing emergency assistance.
• Bless the work of relief agencies and those providing emergency assistance.
• May their work be guided by the grace and strength that comes from You alone.
• Help us to respond with generosity in prayer, in assistance, in aid to the best of our abilities.
• Keep our hearts focused on the needs of those affected, even after the crisis is over.
• We ask this in Jesus' name.
• The Christian Creeds have had a long history in Scripture and Tradition.
• The earliest creeds were "professions of faith" used in Baptisms that narrated the saving events which grounded the faith of the Christian communities.
• One basic objection to the Creed today is that for many Filipino Catholics it remains an impersonal, abstract, and irrelevant dead formula.
• The Creed is recited more or less attentively, together at Sunday Mass.
• The early churches developed the creeds for catechetical instruction to prepare converts for baptism.
• PCP II is calling for a renewal of our faith, and the Creed is an irreplaceable means for this renewal.
• The liturgical acclamations of the early Christian communities include "There is one Lord, one faith, one baptism; one God and Father of all, who is over all, and works through all, and is in all" (Eph 4:5-6).
• The creeds quickly took on a fixed form as St. Paul explicitly states: "Brothers, I want to remind you of the gospel I preached to you, which you received and in which you stand firm, you are being saved by it at this very moment if you hold fast to it as I preached it to you, otherwise you have believed in vain." (1 Cor 15:1-5).
• The narrative elements of God's creating act, His redeeming act in Jesus Christ, and His sanctifying presence in all in the Holy Spirit grew the Trinitarian pattern of the classic Creeds.
• Liturgical and Catechetical Creeds developed from the early preaching of the Good News of Christ's resurrection.
• Few Filipino Catholics have been taught how relevant the Creedal truths are today for us because they are saving, liberating truths.
• The Creed functions as a pledge of loyalty to God and the Church.
• The Creed brings us to Jesus by situating him in the great acts of God, liberating us from misguided piety and possible superstitions.
• The Creed proclaims a personal and communitarian faith, narrating the mighty acts of God in striking images and story, drawn from God's own inspired biblical word.
• A serious objection against the Creed is that it makes Catholic Faith seem like a list of doctrines rather than a personal commitment to Jesus Christ.
• The Creed is like a skeleton, a framework of truths that undergirds our relation to Jesus, to God, to our fellowmen, and to our whole life.
• The Creed offers praise and thanksgiving since it proclaims the truth of Christ, so that at Jesus' name, every knee must bend, in the heavens, on the earth, and under the earth, and every tongue proclaim to the glory of God the Father: Jesus Christ is Lord!
• In proclaiming the Creed, we Filipino Christians acknowledge that our basic personal identity is drawn from God's initiative in recreating us through Christ and the Holy Spirit into one community.
• As a summary of basic Catholic beliefs, the Creed has been an indispensable means of Faith for both the Church and the individual Catholics.
• The Creed helps ground the Christian believer's self-identity.