Are you a robot when it comes to reciting the Creed each Sunday? Do you hear what you are saying? Do you understand what you are hearing? Do you believe what you understand? Do you live what you believe? Do you share with others why you are living the way you do?
This wonderful video was used on a retreat I went to over the New Year, and it’s been going around Facebook since then. Here it is, in case you haven’t seen it yet.
I like this video. It made me think about the creed and what I believe. A sad fact, it seems to me, is that when we say the creed, we say it tend to say it by rote and quite quickly without much time to actually think what we are saying. Perhaps it would help if we were encouraged to say it at a slower and more prayerful pace.
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The new translation means you have to read the words of the creed a bit more carefully. Our parish priest started using the Apostles Creed when the new translation was introduced. A friend stopped me after Mass and asked what Jesus was doing when he descended into hell so she was definitely thinking about what she was saying!
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