"I think the people of God"
while Paul VI proclaimed the creed of God's people
Between 1967 and 1968, Pope Paul VI a year of celebrations dedicated to the apostles Peter and Paul , during the nineteenth centenary of their martyrdom. He called it the "Year of Faith." And it ended in St. Peter's Square, June 30, 1968, pronouncing a solemn profession of faith, "I think the people of God." The text of this I think tracing that formulated at the Council of Nicaea, which is recited at every Mass, with important explanations.
Here is the full text of the creed of the people God solemnly pronounced by Pope Paul VI June 30, 1968, the official translation in Italian:
"We believe in one God .."
We believe in one God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, Creator of things visible such as this world in which our transient life passes, of invisible things which are pure spirits, also called angels, and Creator in each man of his spiritual and immortal.
We believe that only God is absolutely one in His infinitely holy essence as in all its perfections, in His omnipotence, His infinite knowledge, His providence, His will and His love. He is the One who is, as revealed to Moses, and He is love, as the Apostle John teaches us: so that these two names, being and love, express ineffably the same divine reality of Him who has taken care to known to us, and dwelling in light inaccessible in itself is above every name, of all things and every created intellect. God alone can give us right and full knowledge of himself, revealing himself as Father, Son and Holy Spirit, in whose eternal life we \u200b\u200bare called to participate in the grace of him, down here in the dark of faith and after death in eternal light, eternal life. The mutual bonds which eternally constitute the Three Persons, who are each one and the same divine being, are the blessed inmost life of God thrice holy, infinitely beyond all that we can conceive in human measure . We give thanks to God's goodness for that very many believers can testify with us before men to the unity of God, while not knowing the mystery of the Holy Trinity.
We believe then that the Father eternally begets the Son, the Son, the Word of God who is eternally begotten of the Holy Spirit, the uncreated Person proceeding from the Father and the Son as their eternal love. Thus, in the three divine Persons, co-eternal and coequal superabound and are consummated in sovraeccellenza and glory proper to uncreated being, the life and beatitude of God perfectly one, and always should be venerated unity in the Trinity and the Trinity in unity.
We believe in our Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God He is the Eternal Word, born of the Father before all ages, and consubstantial with the Father, homoousios to Patri, and through him all things were made . He was incarnate by the Holy Spirit in the womb of the Virgin Mary, and was made man: equal therefore to the Father according to his divinity, and inferior to the Father according to his humanity and Himself one, not by some impossible confusion of His natures, but by the unity of the person.
He dwelt among us, full of grace and truth. He proclaimed and established the Kingdom of God, and in itself has made known the Father. He gave us His new commandment to love one another as He loved us. He taught us the way of the beatitudes of the Gospel: poverty in spirit, meekness, suffering borne with patience, thirst after justice, mercy, purity of heart, desire for peace, persecution suffered for justice. He suffered under Pontius Pilate, the Lamb of God who takes upon himself the sins of the world, and died on the cross for us, saving us by His redeeming blood. He was buried, and, his own power, rose on the third day, raising us by His resurrection to that sharing in the divine life, which is the life of grace. He ascended to heaven, and will again in glory to judge the living and the dead, each according to his merits-so going to eternal life those who have responded to the love and mercy of God, and those going to the fire unquenchable that until the last you have refused them. And his kingdom will never end.
We believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the Giver of life, who is adored and glorified with the Father and the Son. He has spoken through the prophets, He was sent by Christ after his resurrection and his ascension to the Father, He illuminates, gives life, protects and guides the Church, it purifies the members if they do not shun His grace. His action, which penetrates to the inmost soul, enables man to respond to the invitation of Jesus: Be perfect as your heavenly Father perfectly.
We believe that Mary is the Mother, who remained ever a Virgin, of the Incarnate Word, our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, and who, by reason of this singular election, it shall consider of the merits of her Son, redeemed in a more eminent manner, preserved from all stain of original sin and filled with the gift of grace more than all other creatures.
associated with the mysteries of Incarnation and Redemption in a close and indissoluble bond, the Virgin Mary, the Immaculate Conception, at the end of her earthly life raised body and soul to heavenly glory and likened to her Risen Son , anticipating the future lot of all the righteous, and we believe that the Blessed Mother of God, the new Eve, Mother of the Church, continues in heaven her maternal role with regard to Christ's members, cooperating with the birth and development of divine life in souls of the redeemed.
Νοi crediamo che in Adamo tutti hanno peccato: il che significa che la colpa originale da lui commessa ha fatto cadere la natura umana, comune a tutti gli uomini, in uno stato in cui essa porta le conseguenze di quella colpa, e che non è più lo stato in cui si trovava all'inizio nei nostri progenitori, costituiti nella santità e nella giustizia, e in cui l'uomo non conosceva né il male né la morte. È la natura umana così decaduta, spogliata della grazia che la rivestiva, ferita nelle sue proprie forze naturali e sottomessa al dominio della morte, che viene trasmessa a tutti gli uomini; ed è in tal senso che ciascun uomo nasce nel peccato. Νοi dunque professiamo, col Concilio di Trento, che il peccato originale viene trasmesso con la natura umana, non per imitazione, ma per propagazione, e che esso è proprio a ciascuno.
Νοi crediamo che Nostro Signor Gesù Cristo mediante il Sacrificio della Croce ci ha riscattati dal peccato originale e da tutti i peccati personali commessi da ciascuno di noi, in maniera tale che, secondo la parola dell'Apostolo, là dove aveva abbondato il peccato, ha sovrabbondato la grazia.
Noi crediamo in un solo battesimo, istituito da Nostro Signor Gesù Cristo per la remissione dei peccati. Il battesimo deve essere amministrato anche ai bambini che non hanno ancor potuto rendersi colpevoli di alcun peccato personale, affinché essi, nati privi della grazia soprannaturale, rinascano dall'acqua e dallo Spirito santo alla vita divina in Gesù Cristo.
Νοi crediamo nella Chiesa una, santa, cattolica ed apostolica, edificata da Gesù Cristo sopra questa pietra, che è Pietro. Essa è il Corpo mistico di Cristo, insieme società visibile, costituita di organi gerarchici, e comunità spirituale; essa è la Chiesa terrestre, Popolo di Dio pellegrinante quaggiù, e la Chiesa ricolma dei beni celesti; essa è il germe e la primizia del Regno di Dio, per mezzo del quale continuano, nella trama della storia umana, l'opera e i dolori della Redenzione, e which looks for its perfect accomplishment beyond time in glory. Over time, the Lord Jesus forms His Church through the sacraments emanating from His plenitude. And with these she makes her members participants in the Mystery of Death and Resurrection of Christ, the grace of the Holy Spirit who gives life and action. It is therefore holy, though in its bosom sinners, since it has no other life but that of grace: it is living by her life, her members are sanctified, it is by removing his life, they fall into sins and disorders that prevent the radiation of her sanctity. Why she suffers and does penance for these sins, from which the power to heal her children through the blood of Christ and the Holy Ghost.
heir of the divine promises and the daughter of Abraham according to the Spirit, means that Israel whose scriptures she lovingly guards, and venerates the Patriarchs and Prophets, founded on the apostles and handing on from century to century their ever-living word and their powers as pastors in the successor of Peter and the bishops in communion with him constantly assisted by the Holy Spirit, the Church's mission is to preserve, teach, explain and disseminate the truth that God revealed in a veiled manner by the prophets, and fully by the Lord Jesus We believe all that is contained in the Word of God written or handed down, and that the Church proposes for belief as divinely revealed either by a solemn opinion, both the ordinary and universal Magisterium. We believe in the infallibility, enjoyed by the Successor of Peter when he teaches ex cathedra as pastor and teacher of all Christians, and which is assured also to the bishops, when it exercises with him the supreme magisterium.
We believe that the Church founded by Jesus Christ and for which He prayed is unfailingly one in faith, worship and the bond of hierarchical communion. In the bosom of this Church, the rich variety of liturgical rites and the legitimate diversity of theological and spiritual heritages and special disciplines, far from harming her unity, make it more clear .
Recognizing also, outside the body of the Church of Christ, the existence of numerous elements of truth and sanctification which belong to her own and tend to Catholic unity, and believing in the action of the Holy Spirit that in the heart of the disciples of Christ aroused the love of this unity, we entertain the hope that Christians who are not yet in full communion with the one Church, will meet one day in one flock with one shepherd.
We believe that the Church is necessary for salvation, because Christ, who is the only Mediator and the only way of salvation, renders Himself present for us in his body, which is the Church. But the divine design of salvation embraces all men and those without their own fault, ignorant of the Gospel of Christ and his Church but sincerely seek God and under the influence of grace endeavor to do His will as recognized through dictates of their conscience, they, in a number known only to God, can obtain salvation.
We believe that the Mass celebrated by the priest representing the person of Christ by virtue of the power received in the Sacrament of Orders, and offered by him in nome di Cristo e di membri del suo Corpo Mistico, è il Sacrificio del Calvario reso sacramentalmente presente sui nostri altari. Noi crediamo che, come il pane e il vino consacrati dal Signore nell'ultima Cena sono stati convertiti nel suo Corpo e nel suo Sangue che di lì a poco sarebbero stati offerti per noi sulla Croce, allo stesso modo il pane e il vino consacrati dal sacerdote sono convertiti nel Corpo e nel Sangue di Cristo gloriosamente regnante nel cielo; e crediamo che la misteriosa presenza del Signore, sotto quello che continua ad apparire come prima ai nostri sensi, è una presenza vera, reale e sostanziale .
Pertanto Cristo non may be present in this sacrament except by the change into His Body of the reality of the bread and the change into His blood of the very reality of the wine, leaving unchanged only the properties of bread and wine which our senses perceive. This mysterious change is called by the Church, very appropriately, transubstantiation. Every theological explanation which seeks some understanding of this mystery, to be in accord with Catholic faith, maintain that in objective reality, independently of our mind, the bread and wine have ceased to exist after the consecration, so that by that time are the adorable Body and Blood of the Lord Jesus to be really before us under the sacramental species of bread and wine, just like the Lord wanted to give himself to us as food and for the unity of His Mystical Body.
The unique and indivisible existence of the Lord glorious in heaven is not multiplied, but is rendered present by the sacrament in many places on earth where Mass is celebrated. After the sacrifice, this existence remains present in the Blessed Sacrament which is, in the tabernacle, the living heart of each of our churches. And it is our very sweet duty to honor and adore in the blessed Host which our eyes see, the Word made flesh, that they can not see, and who, without leaving the sky, it was present before us.
We confess that the Kingdom of God, begun here in the Church of Christ, not of this world, which is passing away, and that its true growth can not be confused with the progress of civilization, science and of human technology, but consists in knowing more deeply the unfathomable riches of Christ, to hope ever more strongly in things eternal, ever more ardent response to the love of God, to spread ever more widely grace and holiness among men. But it is this same love that makes the Church constantly concerned for the true temporal welfare of men. Without ceasing to recall to her children that they have not here a lasting dwelling, she also urges them to contribute - each according to his vocation and his means - to the good of their earthly city, to promote justice, peace and brotherhood among men, to give their aid to their brothers, especially to the poorest and most needy. The deep solicitude of the Church, the Bride of Christ, for the needs of men, their joys and their hopes, their efforts and their travails, is nothing other than her great desire to be present to enlighten them with the light of Christ and to gather them all in Him, their only Savior. This solicitude can never mean that the church conform herself to the things of this world, or that she lessen the ardor of his Lord and the eternal Kingdom.
We believe in eternal life. We believe that the souls of all those who die in the grace of Christ, whether they must still be purified in purgatory, and that from the moment they leave their bodies to be accepted by Jesus in heaven, as he did for the Good Thief are the People of God in the death, which will be finally conquered on the day of the Resurrection when these souls will be reunited with their bodies.
We believe that the multitude souls of those gathered around Jesus and Mary in Paradise forms the Church of heaven, where in eternal beatitude they see God as it is and where they are also associated, in varying degrees, with the holy angels in the divine rule exercised by Christ in glory, interceding for us and helping our weakness by their brotherly care.
We believe in the communion among the faithful of Christ, those who are pilgrims on this earth, the dead who are attaining their purification and the blessed in heaven, all together forming one Church, we believe that in this communion the merciful love of God and His saints is ever listening to our prayers, as Jesus' words: Ask and you shall receive. And with faith and hope, we await the resurrection of the dead and the life of the world to come.
Blessed be God, holy, holy, holy. Amen.
Prominent front of the Basilica di San Pietro, 30 June 1968 year, the sixth of our pontificate.
PAUL. VI
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