The Athanasian, The Trentine , The

Apostolic and The Nicene Creeds

[QUICUNQUE VULT]

* Whosoever will be saved, before all things it is necessary that he hold

the Catholic [Apostolic/Universal] Faith, which except everyone shall

have kept whole and undefiled, without doubt he will perish eternally.

* Now the Catholic Faith is this: We worship One God in Trinity and

Trinity in Unity, neither confounding the Persons nor dividing the

substance.

* For there is one Person of the Father, another of the Son, another of

the Holy Spirit. But the Godhead of the Father, of the Son, and of the

Holy Spirit, is One, the Glory equal, the Majesty coeternal.

* Such as the Father is, such is the Son, and such is the Holy Spirit; the

Father uncreated, the Son uncreated, and the Holy Spirit uncreated; the

Father infinite, the Son infinite, and the Holy Spirit infinite; the Father

eternal, the Son eternal, and the Holy Spirit eternal. And yet not three

eternals but one eternal, as also not three infinites, nor three uncreated,

but one uncreated, and one infinite. So, likewise, the Father is almighty,

the Son almighty, and the Holy Spirit almighty; and yet not three

almighties but one almighty.

* So the Father is God, the Son God, and the Holy Spirit God; and yet

not three Gods but one God. So the Father is Lord, the Son Lord, and

the Holy Spirit Lord; and yet not three Lords but one Lord. For like as we
are compelled by Christian truth to acknowledge every Person by

Himself to be both God and Lord; so are we forbidden by the Catholic

religion to say, there be three Gods or three Lords.

* The Father is made of none, neither created nor begotten. The Son is

of the Father alone, not made nor created but begotten. The Holy Spirit

is of the Father and the Son, not made nor created nor begotten but

proceeding. So there is one Father not three Fathers, one Son not three

Sons, and Holy Spirit not three Holy Spirits. And in this Trinity there is

nothing before or after, nothing greater or less, but the whole three

Persons are coeternal together and coequal.

* So that in all things, as is aforesaid, the Trinity in Unity and the Unity in

Trinity is to be worshipped. He therefore who wills to be in a state of

salvation, let him think thus of the Trinity.

* But it is necessary to eternal salvation that he also believe faithfully the

Incarnation of our Lord Jesus Christ. The right faith therefore is that we

believe and confess that our Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, is God

and Man.

* He is God of the substance of the Father begotten before the worlds,

and He is man of the substance of His mother born in the world; perfect

God, perfect man subsisting of a reasoning soul and human flesh; equal

to the Father as touching His Godhead, inferior to the Father as touching

His Manhood.
* Who although He be God and Man yet He is not two but one Christ;

one however not by conversion of the GodHead in the flesh, but by

taking of the Manhood in God; one altogether not by confusion of

substance but by unity of Person. For as the reasoning soul and flesh is

one man, so God and Man is one Christ.

* Who suffered for our salvation, descended into hell, rose again from the

dead, ascended into heaven, sits at the right hand of the Father, from

whence He shall come to judge the living and the dead. At whose

coming all men shall rise again with their bodies and shall give account

for their own works. And they that have done good shall go into life

eternal, and they who indeed have done evil into eternal fire.

* This is the Catholic faith, which except a man shall have believed

faithfully and firmly he cannot be in a state of salvation.

The Trentine Creed or The Creed of Pius IV. ,

A.D. 1564
This creed was in response to the Protestant revolt and can be said to be the
precursor to Pope St. Pius X's Oath Against Modernism.

1. I most steadfastly admit and embrace Apostolical and ecclesiastical

traditions, and all other observances and constitutions of the Church.

2. I also admit the Holy Scripture according to that sense which our
holy mother the Church has held, and does hold, to which it belongs to

judge of the true sense and interpretations of the Scriptures. Neither will I

ever take and interpret them otherwise than according to the unanimous

consent of the Fathers.

3. I also profess that there are truly and properly seven Sacraments of

the New Law, instituted by Jesus Christ our Lord, and necessary for the

salvation of mankind, though not all for every one; to wit, Baptism,

Confirmation, Eucharist, Penance, Extreme Unction, Order, and

Matrimony; and that they confer grace; and that of these, Baptism,

Confirmation, and Order cannot be reiterated without sacrilege. I also

receive and admit the received and approved

ceremonies of the Catholic Church in the solemn administration of the

aforesaid Sacraments.

4. I embrace and receive all and every one of the things which have

been defined and declared in the holy Council of Trent concerning

Original Sin and justification.

5. I profess, likewise, that in the Mass there is offered to God a true,

proper, and propitiatory sacrifice for the living and the dead; and that in

the most holy sacrament of the Eucharist there is truly, really, and

substantially, the Body and Blood, together with the Soul and Divinity, of

our Lord Jesus Christ; and that there is made a conversion of the whole

substance of the bread into the body, and of the whole substance of the

wine into the blood, which conversion the Catholic Church calls
Transubstantiation. I also confess that under either kind alone Christ is

received whole and entire, and a true Sacrament.

6. I constantly hold that there is a Purgatory, and that the souls therein

detained are helped by the suffrages of the faithful.

7. Likewise, that the saints, reigning together with Christ, are to be

honored and invocated, and that they offer prayers to God for us, and

that their relics are to be respected.

8. I most firmly assert that the images of Christ, of the mother of God,

ever Virgin, and also of the Saints, ought to be had and retained, and

that due honor and veneration is to be given them.

9. I also affirm that the power of indulgences was left by Christ in the

Church, and that the use of them is most wholesome to Christian people.

10. I acknowledge the Holy Catholic Apostolic Roman Church for the

mother and mistress of all churches; and I promise true obedience to the

Bishop of Rome, successor to St. Peter, Prince of the Apostles, and

Vicar of Jesus Christ.

11. I likewise undoubtedly receive and profess all other things delivered,

defined, and declared by the sacred Canons, and general Councils, and

particularly by the holy Council of Trent.

12. And I condemn, reject, and anathematize all things contrary thereto,

and all heresies whatsoever, condemned, rejected, and anathematized

saved,

I. N.N. do at this present freely confess and sincerely hold; and I promise

most constantly to retain, and confess the same entire and unviolated,

with God's assistance, to the end of my life.

The Apostle's Creed

I believe in God the Father Almighty, Creator of

Heaven and earth, and in Jesus Christ,

His only Son, our Lord Who was conceived by

the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered

under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died, and was buried.

He descended into Hell; the third day He

arose again from the dead; He ascended into

Heaven and is seated at the right hand of God

the Father Almighty, from thence He shall come

to judge the living and the dead. I believe in the Holy Spirit,

the Holy Catholic Church, the Communion

of the body, and life everlasting. Amen.

The Nicene Creed

I believe in one God, the Father Almighty,

maker of Heaven and earth and of all things

visible and invisible. And in one Lord Jesus

Christ, the only begotten Son of God, begotten

of his Father before all ages, God of God,

Light of Light, true God of true God, begotten,

not made, consubstantial with the

Father, by Whom all things were made; Who

for us men and for our salvation, came down

from Heaven, and was Incarnate by the Holy

Spirit of the Virgin Mary and was made Man;

He was crucified also for us under Pontius

Pilate, and was buried. And the

Scriptures, and ascended into Heaven. He

sitteth at the right hand of the Father: and He shall

come again with glory to judge the living

and the dead: and His kingdom shall have no end.

And in the Holy Ghost, the Lord and

Giver of life, Who proceedeth from the Father and

the Son, Who, together with the Father and the Son,

is adored and glorified: Who spoke by the

prophets. And I believe in one holy Catholic and

apostolic Church. I confess one Baptism

for the remission of sins. And I expect the resurrection

of the dead, and the life of the world to come.

Amen.