Apostles' Creed instead of Nicene Creed?

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For Sunday Mass in the USA, the Nicene Creed is always said. Is this the same in all English speaking countries? Are there any English speaking countries that say the Apostles’ Creed instead of the Nicene Creed during the Sunday Mass?
 
the Apostles Creed may be used in the US in Masses for children.
 
lak611 said:
Thanks! I wonder if the Apostles’ Creed is said in England, Ireland, Australia, India, New Zealand or other countries of the Commonwealth of Nations.
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From my experience, Ireland and England usually use the Nicene Creed. In Japan, the Apostle’s Creed in both the English and Japanese Masses.
Gearoidin
 
lak611 said:
For Sunday Mass in the USA, the Nicene Creed is always said. Is this the same in all English speaking countries? Are there any English speaking countries that say the Apostles’ Creed instead of the Nicene Creed during the Sunday Mass?
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Here in the Philippines we say the Apostles Creed.
 
Last time I looked the Mass book in the pew (approved by the national council of bishops) included both Nicene and Apostles’ creeds. They are interchangeable.

Matthew
 
The Old Latin Mass had only the Nicene Creed. Never heard it in the New Mass. Today I realize I don’t even know the Nicene Creed in English.
 
BobP123 said:
The Old Latin Mass had only the Nicene Creed. Never heard it in the New Mass. Today I realize I don’t even know the Nicene Creed in English.
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I’ve never heard the Apostles’ Creed in the NO Mass. Then again, I have never been to a children’s Mass or a Mass in a country other than the USA.
 
thistle said:
Here in the Philippines we say the Apostles Creed.
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But the Archdiocesan shrine of Blessed Pedro Calungsod uses the Nicene. Ha ha. 😃 With the bow. I’ve come to memorize it at long last.

Not many people are used to the bow though, but I do, my wife does, and everyone in the sanctuary.

It’s great.
 
The 2002 Roman Missal’s Order of Mass, n. 19, allows either the Nicene or Apostles Creed, when there is a Creed at Mass. (Missale Romanum, Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 2002, ISBN: 8820972719, page 513). This applies to all countries.

The rubric is “19. Loco symboli nicaeno-constantinopolitani, praesertim tempore Quadragesimae et tempore paschali, adhiberi potest symbolum baptismale Ecclesiae Romanae sic dictum Apostolorum.”

A translation provided by Fr McNamara at zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=100200 is: “The Roman Church’s baptismal creed, the so-called Apostles’ Creed, may be used in place of the Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed, especially in Lent and Eastertide.”
 
drafdog said:
Last time I looked the Mass book in the pew (approved by the national council of bishops) included both Nicene and Apostles’ creeds. They are interchangeable.

Matthew
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No, they are not. The Apostles’ Creed is to be said ONLY at Children’s Masses. The Mass book specifically states that.

Micki
 
If the “Mass Book” was published before 2002 then it was correct at the time – Apostle’s Creed only at Masses for Children. But since 2002, the Latin edition of the Roman Missal has made them interchangeable, as I posted above in #15.
 
John_Lilburne said:
If the “Mass Book” was published before 2002 then it was correct at the time – Apostle’s Creed only at Masses for Children. But since 2002, the Latin edition of the Roman Missal has made them interchangeable, as I posted above in #15.
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So, is it just more common to use the Apostle’s Creed instead of the Nicene Creed in English-speaking countries other than the USA, although it is acceptable in all countries?
 
In Australia I cannot recall the Apostles’ Creed being said at Mass, even though it is an option in the 2002 Missale Romanum.
 
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