Our Creed - Credo:
At Our Lady Saint Mary Magdalene
A Creed is basically the code you live by: your beliefs.
It means "a belief, or a form of belief, beliefs".
In spiritual settings it refers to spiritual, “religious” belief.
The word has received a variety of meanings over the years.
1. “Creed” refers to the entire body of beliefs held by the
members or adherents of a particular religion, or spiritual
group.
When it used that way, it is equivalent to "doctrine" or to
faith; meaning that faith is used to give it its actual lived-
out meaning or expression.
One easy way to understand it is to see it as a set of rules/
guidelines to live by.
2. In a different, narrower sense, a creed is a summary of the
principal articles of faith professed by church or community
of believers.
Thus by the "creeds of Christendom" are understood as those
writings of the Christian faith which at various times have
been drawn up and accepted by one or the other of the
Christian churches.
“Credo” is the Latin word, or expression, that means “I
Believe….”
All people have a "code" they live by - positive or negative;
thus we all have "a creed".
It means "a belief, or a form of belief, beliefs".
In spiritual settings it refers to spiritual, “religious” belief.
The word has received a variety of meanings over the years.
1. “Creed” refers to the entire body of beliefs held by the
members or adherents of a particular religion, or spiritual
group.
When it used that way, it is equivalent to "doctrine" or to
faith; meaning that faith is used to give it its actual lived-
out meaning or expression.
One easy way to understand it is to see it as a set of rules/
guidelines to live by.
2. In a different, narrower sense, a creed is a summary of the
principal articles of faith professed by church or community
of believers.
Thus by the "creeds of Christendom" are understood as those
writings of the Christian faith which at various times have
been drawn up and accepted by one or the other of the
Christian churches.
“Credo” is the Latin word, or expression, that means “I
Believe….”
All people have a "code" they live by - positive or negative;
thus we all have "a creed".
Our Creed - what we believe
And so it is.
Amen.
- We believe that God is Love and Light, Truth and Power. Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is One True Church, Apostolic and
Universal
- We know and believe in the One God, Creator of all things, of all humankind, the Source of all goodness, love, beauty, and truth.
- We believe in the Christos, God manifest in the flesh, our Example, Teacher, Redeemer, and Liberator.
- We believe in the Holy Sophia, God present with us, for guidance, comfort, purification, and strength.
- We believe God blesses, preserves and sanctifies us through our efforts and shows us how to loose the cords of mistakes binding us,
as we release the strands we hold of others' guilt, our forgiveness of others being the measure of God's forgiveness of ours.
- We believe in the life of prayer and love, grace for every need, and in a generous response to our Christian obligations as a measure
of our sincerity.
- We believe in the Word of God as manifested through the Logos and Sophia a sufficient rule both of faith and practice.
- We believe in the Church as the fellowship of the sons and the daughters of the Creator God as a centre for worship, service, and
growth and oneness.
- Let us love, not hate; let us serve and not exact due service; let us heal, not hurt. Let pain bring due reward of light and love; let
the soul control the outer form; let vision come and insight.
- Let love prevail; let all folks love. We believe that perfect Justice rules creation; in the final triumph of righteousness and in a
dynamic quality of life, beginning on Earth, and that all God's Children shall one day return to their origin, continuing through
eternities.
- We affirm the inseparable oneness of God and all humankind, the realization of which comes through spiritual intuition, and the
implications of which are that we can aspire to reproduce divine perfection in our bodies, emotions, thoughts, and external affairs.
- We affirm the freedom of each person in matters of belief.
- We affirm that the Good is supreme, universal, and eternal.
- We affirm that the kingdom of heaven is within us and outside us; that we are one with God, and we should love one another and
return good even where apparent negativity exists.
- We affirm that the sick are healed through prayer, and we endeavour to manifest perfection because the kingdom of heaven within
us is perfect already.
- We affirm that our mental states are carried forward into the manifest world and become our experience through the creative law
of cause and effect.
- We affirm that the Divine Nature expressing Itself through us manifests as Health, Supply, Wisdom, Love, Life, Truth, Power,
Peace, Beauty, and Joy.
- We affirm that the entire cosmos is the body of God, spiritual in essence, governed by God, through laws which are spiritual in
reality, even when material in appearance.
And so it is.
Amen.
Fr. Klaas Tuinman MA
At Our Lady Saint Mary Magdalene
Yarmouth County, Nova Scotia, Canada
- Jan 2008
At Our Lady Saint Mary Magdalene
Yarmouth County, Nova Scotia, Canada
- Jan 2008
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Our Beliefs