The Creed · Every family has a story. We are the people of God – we are God’s family – and we have an incredibly important family story! Each Sunday at Mass and on certain holy days, we retell and enter into this story of God’s love for us when we say the Creed (or Profession of Faith, because in it we express the central truths of our faith). · The term creed, comes from the Latin credo, meaning “I believe,” and the first creed we profess is at baptism, through which we enter into the family of God, the Church, which is the Body of Christ. When we pray the Creed at Mass, we state our belief in God 1) the Father, 2) the Son, and 3) the Holy Spirit, and then we profess faith in 4) the Church. What we profess is what we celebrate! · The Creed is our response in faith to God who has just spoken to us in the Readings – it is our joyful YES to God’s Word and our acceptance of his invitation to life with Him. In the Creed, we each recommit ourselves to God, to our beliefs, and to a life of discipleship.