12 FRUITS OF THE HOLY

SPIRIT
1. Charity 1. Generosity
2. Joy 2. Gentleness
3. Peace 3. Faithfulness
4. Patience 4. Modesty
5. Kindness 5. Self-control
6. Goodness 6. Chastity
 Act of
Contrition
 O my God, I am heartily sorry for having
offended You and I detest all my sins, because I
dread the loss of heaven and the pains of hell,
but most of all because I offend You, my God,
who are all good and deserving of all my love. I
firmly resolve, with the help of Your grace, to
confess my sins, to do penance and to amend
my life. Amen.
 GOOD
MORNING!
 How do
people
regard the
Creed?
We observed that people
regard the Creed as
merely an impersonal,
abstract, and irrelevant
dead formulas that make
Christian Faith into a list of
“things to believe”.
 What
they
don’t
know…
 It is an irreplaceable means
for renewing our Faith (PCP
II)
 The Creed and Catholic
doctrine in general impede
Christian unity. “Doctrine
divides, service unites,”
they claim.
 What
they
don’t
know…
 The Creedal truths provide the
basic ground for the Christian
moral criteria needed for judging
what is morally right and justified
and what is not.
Creed, in Latin: Credo, has been
likened to the Latin cardo,
meaning “hinge”, that upon which
everything in the Christian Faith
turns.
The Creed makes
Catholic Faith seem like a
list of doctrines rather than
a personal commitment to
Jesus Christ.
 What
they
don’t
know…
 They do not see the connection
between the Gospel and the
personal/ communitarian Creedal
proclamation of God in Christ.
 We proclaim the truth openly. . .the
splendor of the gospel showing forth
the glory of Christ, the image of
God. . . For God. . . has shone in our
hearts, that we in turn might make
known the glory of God shining on the
face of Christ
2 Cor 4:2,4,6
The Creed brings us to Jesus by
situating him in the great acts of
God, and so liberating us from
misguided piety and possible
superstitions.
The Creed is like a
SKELETON, a framework
of truths that undergirds
our relation to Jesus, to
God, to our fellowmen, and
to our whole life.
 The Creed is not the whole of our
living faith. But its twelve articles or
“joints” give the structural support
necessary for the authentic growth
and vitality of our personal
commitment to Christ (CCC 191).
Think-Pair-
Share
• What does the Creed do for our life
of faith?
• How can we respond to the
objections to the Creed?
 The
Dominican
Blessing
 May God the Father bless us.
May God the Son heal us.
May God the Holy Spirit enlighten us,
and give us eyes to see with,
ears to hear with,
hands to do the work of God with,
feet to walk with,
 a mouth to preach the word of
salvation with, and the angel of
peace to watch over us and lead
us at last, by our Lord’s gift, to the
Kingdom. Amen.