CC: Beliefs and Teachings

• Christians worship one God because


  • Teaching of the bible
  • Jesus taught that there is only one God
  • Unity teaching of magisterium, creeds, catechism
• Nicene Creed


  God exists as three persons - equal and eternal
• God the Father


  • Child's relationship with its father
  • God has a relationship of love and care among his creation
  • God will provide for and protect his people bc he is our Father
• God the Son


  • Jesus is God who became human being
  • Christians can worship Jesus bc he is God
  • Jesus was conceived by the action of the Holy Spirit
• God the Holy Spirit


  • God communicates with humans
  • Inspired the Bible
  • Means by which all the sacraments of the Church put believers into communion with christ
• How the Trinity is reflected in worship and belief

  1. Every Mass begins with a welcome in the name of the Trinity

  2. Worshippers stating their belief in the trinity in the Nicene creed in the Mass

  3. Trinity is main belief in Nicene Creed

  4. Belief in God the Holy Spirit helps Christians understand the presence of God in the world
• Belief in the Trinity is reflected in the life of a Catholic today


  • Praying to the Father, through the Son, in the power and presence of the Holy spirit gives Catholics the spiritual sense of God as 'beyond us, with us and in us'
  • The Trinity gives Catholics the sense that God is active as F,S,HS
  • Trinity teaches Catholics they must work together to bring God's love in the world
• Catechism: 'the Trinity is a holy mystery central to the Christian faith'
• Nicene Creed: 'the Trinity is one God experienced as F,S, and HS'
• Catechism: 'belief in only one God is the basis of Christianity'