Creed (Part III) – Reflections / Sharing Questions

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Mar 6, 2022
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Tip: It is a good idea to keep a Reflection Journal for jotting down your reflections and see how you progress over time!

Have a copy of the Nicene Creed in front of you for this month’s reflection on “C”, The Creed. Like the cross, the Nicene Creed is a symbol of our Christian faith. It is a summary of the central claims of the oral faith held by Christ’s apostles 2000 plus years ago, handed down by tradition, defended by early Church fathers, paid for by martyrs’ blood, and preserved in writing to protect its orthodoxy throughout the ages.

Reflection/Sharing Questions

Post-Confirmands

For the first few years after Confirmation, you might feel like an unanchored ship. The Creed is one of the ways you can anchor your faith in Jesus and his Church. If you fill your boat the Creed and with Jesus on board, no storm can sink your faith.

1. Silently and contemplatively, read the Creed, the oath made between yourself and God and to the Church (“the people of God”).

2. Notice the 4 sections of the Creed; the first section about who the Father is, the second about who Jesus is, the third about the Holy Spirit is, and finally about other general beliefs. Take your time to contemplate on just one section at a time, even if just one section per day.

3. Notice your sensations and thoughts as you contemplate the meaning of those words. Express these in whichever way moves you, writing, drawing, singing, body movement or dance.

4. You read about St Nicolas and St Perpetua living out their faith under the conditions of their time. Besides confessing the correct belief on Sundays at Mass, can you think of ways you can courageously live out your faith on a daily basis by: a) becoming more like Jesus internally and b) standing up for the truth of the Christian faith by word, and living out the faith in deed in society.

Young/Working Adults

Family stresses, work stresses, crisis, oppositions, challenges, persecutions, etc. It’s easy to lose your sight of our faith and give up. If the Church never lost grip of its orthodoxy despite rotten apples inside the Church, and its enemies outside, should you?

1. Silently and contemplatively, read the Creed, the oath made between yourself and God and to the Church (“the people of God”).

3. Notice your sensations and thoughts as you contemplate the meaning of those words. Express these in whichever way moves you, writing, drawing, singing, body movement or dance.

Married Couples

The Creed is similar to your marriage vows in the sense it is an oath or promise made.

1. How does the Creed help keep you anchored in your marriage as a Catholic?

2. Silently and contemplatively, read the Creed, the oath made between yourself and God and to the Church (“the people of God”).

3. Notice the 4 sections of the Creed; the first section about who the Father is, the second about who Jesus is, the third about the Holy Spirit is, and finally about other general beliefs. Take your time to contemplate on just one section at a time, even if just one section per day.

4. Notice your sensations and thoughts as you contemplate the meaning of those words. Express these in whichever way moves you, writing, drawing, singing, body movement or dance.

5. You read about St Nicolas and St Perpetua living out their faith under the conditions of their time. Besides confessing the correct belief on Sundays at Mass, can you think of ways you can courageously motivate each other to live out your faith in your marriage on a daily basis by: a) becoming more like Jesus internally and b) standing up for the truth of the Christian faith by word, and living out the faith in deed in society.

Parents

As parents, we are the first Catechists to our children. Before we can teach our children about the Creed, it is important that we first believe and understand it ourselves.

1. Are your children able to recite/confess the Creed purely from memory? Tip: dividing the Creed into 4 sections (about the Father, Son, Holy Spirit, and other general beliefs) will ease memorization.

2. Have you explained to your children at their level of understanding, what the Creed means?

3. If your children have already learnt the Creed, ask them to first express their understanding in words in a journal, then express themselves by drawing, bodily movements, singing a song or dancing.

4. Finally, ask them for examples how they can live out their faith of the Creed with courage and humility in their everyday matters in their daily life. Remember to praise them when you catch them living out their faith and never fail to encourage them when they fail to live out their faith.

Single / Separated / Divorced / Widowed

Jesus the greatest lover never forgot those the lonely, sick, frail, and the old. The Creed is what allows us to be inseparable from God because God is the source from which all things comes and He will always remain eternally faithful.

1. Silently and contemplatively, read the Creed, the oath made between yourself and God and to the Church (“the people of God”).

3. Notice your sensations and thoughts as you contemplate the meaning of those words. Express these in whichever way moves you, writing, drawing, singing, body movement or dance.

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