Believing as Catholics • Generations of Faith

This session provides young people with an opportunity to reflect on their beliefs and learn ideas for standing up for what they believe as they explore the most important beliefs of the Catholic Church.

The Nicene Creed • Generations of Faith

Believing that Jesus Was Fully Divine

In this all-ages session, participants will explore our belief that Jesus is fully divine as expressed in the Nicene Creed. This activity is designed to following the activity titled: The Apostles' Creed: Believing that Jesus Was Fully Human.

Nicene Creed Matching Game • Generations of Faith

Match phrases from the Nicene Creed to who or what it applies to in this family activity.

Proclaiming Our Faith • Generations of Faith

This session will help children understand the meaning of the Creed, especially the significance of its proclamation during the Easter Season.

Creeds: Speaking & Living Our Core Beliefs • Generations of Faith

This all-ages session will guide participants in professing and living the Apostles' Creed and the Nicene Creed as signs of Church unity in the Easter Season.

Proclaiming Our Faith • Generations of Faith

In this session, participants of all ages will experience the call to Trinitarian unity that is imbedded in the Nicene Creed.

Our Family Creed • Generations of Faith

As a Christian community we profess our faith through the reciting of the Creed. As households of faith we sometimes live an unspoken creed about who we want to be as a family. This activity will guide you through articulating those beliefs.

Professing Our Faith • Generations of Faith

Use this fill-in-the-blank activity to review what your family knows about the Creed.

Put Your Heart Into It • Generations of Faith

You are not alone if sometimes you feel bored by reciting the Creed week after week at Mass. Here are four suggestions for putting your heart into the Creed.

The Apostle's Creed • Generations of Faith

Believing that Jesus Was Fully Human

This all-ages activity will guide participants in exploring our belief that Jesus is fully human as expressed in the Apostles' Creed. This activity is intended to be followed by the activity titled: The Nicene Creed: Believing that Jesus Was Fully Divine.

Exploring the Creed • Generations of Faith

Use these Church Year sessions to give an overview of the Creed.

We Believe • Generations of Faith

This learning session focuses on the Creed. The Christian profession of faith is a response to God's revelation to the world made known through the mission of Jesus and the presence of the Holy Spirit.

Creed Table Prayer • FamilyFaith@Home

A table prayer based on our four basic beliefs (God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit and the Church).

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Learning Through Books: What We Believe

What We Believe: A Biblical Catechism of the Apostles' Creed connects the creeds to the cultures from which they emerged, offers keen theological insights into the meaning of the creedal statements, and weaves in real life experiences throughout.

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Websites for Further Learning

Several websites to further your learning about the Creeds.

The Believing Community • FIRE

I Believe

In this session participants will have the opportunity to explore the meaning of "belief" and to develop a "family creed." • By Kathleen O'Connell Chesto

The Believing Community • FIRE

Review of the Year

This session is a review of The Believing Community, based on the Apostles' Creed. It could also be used as review for any lesson on the Creed. Questions can be prepared ahead of time by the leader or by the participants, or questions can be prepared as part of the session by the participants. • By Kathleen O'Connell Chesto

Proclaiming Our Faith • Generations of Faith

This session will help adults unpack the creed and rediscover how they live it out in their daily lives.

We Believe • Generations of Faith

This session invites participants to explore the Christian profession of faith as a response to God's revelation to the world made known through the mission of Jesus and the presence of the Holy Spirit.

Creeds in the Bible • Generations of Faith

During Advent, Lent or the Easter season cut these scripture passages apart, place them in a bowl, and as a family read and discuss one each evening.

One, Holy, Catholic & Apostolic

The four characteristics, or marks, of the Church are rooted in the work of the Holy Spirit. What do they mean? How do they impact our relationship with each other and with the world?

Resurrection of the Body

Christ's bodily resurrection is a foretaste of what we hope for beyond death. What do we mean by our belief in a resurrected body, and what are the implications for earthly bodies?

What is Faith?

What is our Christian understanding of faith, and how do we celebrate it and live it in inspiring ways within a secular culture?

The Trinity

We believe in one God, in three persons.

God the Father

We believe in God the Father almighty, creator of heaven and earth...

Jesus Christ

We believe in Jesus Christ, God's only Son, our Lord...

Mary, Mother of God

We believe that Jesus was born of the Virgin Mary...

Holy Spirit

We believe in the Holy Spirit...

The Church

We believe in the holy Catholic Church...

Communion of Saints

We believe in the communion of saints.... We hold in common "God's holy gifts for God's holy people." How are the living and dead united in a mysterious offering of support and encouragement which builds up the church?

Forgiveness & Reconciliation

We believe in the forgiveness of sins.... After the great commandments to love God and your neighbor as yourself, forgiveness is probably the next great hallmark of Christianity. Yet, just as love is easy to say but hard to do, so are forgiveness and reconciliation. We teach our children to say, "I'm sorry," but it's too easy for those to be hollow words – even for adults. Here we explore principles and challenges that address the holy concept of forgiveness and reconciliation.

Resurrection

We believe Jesus rose again from the dead on the third day.... We believe in the resurrection of the body...