L
Lifesong
Guest
Hi all,
I am a Methodist coming into the Catholic Church at Easter Vigil next year. I start RCIA this Fall and so pumped!! Anyway, I still attend the contemporary service at the Methodist Church where I am still a member from time to time and attended today to support a friend going through the deat of a loved one. Long story short, I do not usually attend the traditional worship but always look at the bulletin to see how close the Bible readings are to the Mass readings as often they are the same (Methodists follow the same liturgical calendar, though they don’t always have the same readings). While doing so I saw a creed in the bulletin I had never heard of from the United Church of Canada in place of The Apostle’s Creed. Here is how it goes:
We are not alone,
we live in God’s world.
We believe in God:
who has created and is creating,
who has come in Jesus,
the Word made flesh,
to reconcile and make new,
who works in us and others
by the Spirit.
We trust in God.
We are called to be the Church:
to celebrate God’s presence,
to live with respect in Creation,
to love and serve others,
to seek justice and resist evil,
to proclaim Jesus, crucified and risen,
our judge and our hope.
In life, in death, in life beyond death,
God is with us.
We are not alone.
Well folks I was shocked as I had never seen this before though after some research apparently this has been in the hymnal for some time. I am not sure that I care for it much as it seems to be a pretty gutted creed in terms of core beliefs. Anyway, those more knowledgable than myself- is this a commonly used creed in the Methodist Church and I was just unaware and for what reason would this replace the Apostle’s Creed? I confess that as a Methodist I grew up in more traditional worship but for the past 20 years have been worshipping in a contemporary service until I started attending Mass a couple months ago after Easter so excuse my ignorance in advance.
In Christ,
Val
I am a Methodist coming into the Catholic Church at Easter Vigil next year. I start RCIA this Fall and so pumped!! Anyway, I still attend the contemporary service at the Methodist Church where I am still a member from time to time and attended today to support a friend going through the deat of a loved one. Long story short, I do not usually attend the traditional worship but always look at the bulletin to see how close the Bible readings are to the Mass readings as often they are the same (Methodists follow the same liturgical calendar, though they don’t always have the same readings). While doing so I saw a creed in the bulletin I had never heard of from the United Church of Canada in place of The Apostle’s Creed. Here is how it goes:
We are not alone,
we live in God’s world.
We believe in God:
who has created and is creating,
who has come in Jesus,
the Word made flesh,
to reconcile and make new,
who works in us and others
by the Spirit.
We trust in God.
We are called to be the Church:
to celebrate God’s presence,
to live with respect in Creation,
to love and serve others,
to seek justice and resist evil,
to proclaim Jesus, crucified and risen,
our judge and our hope.
In life, in death, in life beyond death,
God is with us.
We are not alone.
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Thanks be to God..In Christ,
Val
