As Catholics, we believe that we were created to know, love and serve God.
Equipped with this knowledge and with God's grace we can say, "I believe..."
This is who we are, why we were created, and the foundation of our Discipleship Pathway at St. Dominic.
God has created us to be in relationship with Him.
Know. Love. Serve.
God, infinitely perfect and blessed in himself, in a plan of sheer goodness freely created man to make him share in his own blessed life. For this reason, at every time and in every place, God draws close to man.
He calls man to seek him, to know him, to love him with all his strength.
He calls together all men, scattered and divided by sin, into the unity of his family, the Church.
To accomplish this, when the fullness of time had come, God sent his Son as Redeemer and Saviour. In his Son and through him, he invites men to become, in the Holy Spirit, his adopted children and thus heirs of his blessed life.
This core tenet, taken from the Catechism of the Catholic Church, serves as the foundation of all of our beliefs. We were made to know, love, and serve God.
I believe in one God, the Father almighty, maker of heaven and earth, of all things visible and invisible.
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I believe...
"I believe in one God, the Father almighty, maker of heaven and earth, of all things visible and invisible.
I believe in one Lord Jesus Christ, the Only Begotten Son of God, born of the Father before all ages.God from God, Light from Light, true God from true God, begotten, not made, consubstantial with the Father; through him all things were made. For us men and for our salvation he came down from heaven, and by the Holy Spirit was incarnate of the Virgin Mary, and became man. For our sake he was crucified under Pontius Pilate, he suffered death and was buried, and rose again on the third day in accordance with 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, who with the Father and the Son is adored and glorified, who has spoken through the prophets.
I believe in one, holy, catholic and apostolic Church. I confess one Baptism for the forgiveness of sins and I look forward to the resurrection of the dead and the life of the world to come. Amen."
The Nicene Creed, said at every Catholic Mass, encompasses all of our core beliefs as Catholics.
At St. Dominic Catholic Church, our core beliefs are lived out in our Discipleship Pathway.