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Credo. In Christian liturgy, the credo (Latin: [ˈkɾeːdoː]; Latin for "I believe") is the Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed – or its shorter version, the Apostles' Creed – in the Mass, either as a prayer, a spoken text, or sung as Gregorian chant or other musical settings of the Mass.
Christianity. The Apostles' Creed (Latin: Symbolum Apostolorum or Symbolum Apostolicum), sometimes titled the Apostolic Creed or the Symbol of the Apostles, is a Christian creed or "symbol of faith". The creed most likely originated in 5th-century Gaul as a development of the Old Roman Symbol: the old Latin creed of the 4th century.
The earliest known creed in Christianity, "Jesus is Lord", originated in the writings of Paul the Apostle. [2] One of the most significant and widely used Christian creeds is the Nicene Creed, first formulated in AD 325 at the First Council of Nicaea [3] to affirm the deity of Christ and revised at the First Council of Constantinople in AD 381 to affirm the trinity as a whole. [4]
The Nicene Creed (/ ˈnaɪsiːn /; Koinē Greek: Σύμβολον τῆς Νικαίας, romanized: Sýmvolon tis Nikéas), also called the Creed of Constantinople, [1] is the defining statement of belief of mainstream Christianity [2][3] and in those Christian denominations that adhere to it. The original Nicene Creed was first adopted at the ...
v. t. e. Prayer in the Catholic Church is "the raising of one's mind and heart to God or the requesting of good things from God." [1] It is an act of the moral virtue of religion, which Catholic theologians identify as a part of the cardinal virtue of justice. [2] Prayer may be expressed vocally or mentally. Vocal prayer may be spoken or sung.
Lex orandi, lex credendi (Latin: "the law of what is prayed [is] the law of what is believed"), sometimes expanded as Lex orandi, lex credendi, lex vivendi (Latin: "the law of what is prayed [is] what is believed [is] the law of what is lived"), is a motto in Christian tradition, which means that prayer and belief are integral to each other and that liturgy is not distinct from theology.
The Ukrainian Catholic Church, a sui iuris Eastern Catholic Church professes the Nicene Creed in the following way: I believe in one God, the Father, the Almighty, maker of heaven and earth, of all that is seen and unseen. I believe in one Lord, Jesus Christ, the only Son of God, eternally begotten of the Father.
The Thirty-nine Articles of Religion (commonly abbreviated as the Thirty-nine Articles or the XXXIX Articles), finalised in 1571, are the historically defining statements of doctrines and practices of the Church of England with respect to the controversies of the English Reformation. The Thirty-nine Articles form part of the Book of Common ...