Nicene Creed
We believe in one God the Father Almighty, maker of heaven and earth, of all things visible and invisible.
And in one Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, begotten of God the Father, only-begotten, that is of the substance of the Father.
God of God, light of light, very God of very God, begotten and not made; himself of the nature of the Father, by whom all things came into being in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible.
Who for us mankind and for our salvation came down from heaven and was incarnate, became man, was born perfectly of the holy virgin Mary by the Holy Spirit. By whom he took body, soul and mind and everything that is in man, truly and not in semblance.
He suffered and was crucified and was buried, and rose again on the third day, and ascended into heaven with the same body and sat at the right hand of the Father.
He is to come with the same body and with the glory of the Father to judge the living and the dead; of whose kingdom there is no end.
We believe also in the Holy Spirit, the uncreated and the perfect, who spoke in the law in and in the prophets and in the gospels. Who came down upon the Jordan, preached to the apostles and dwelt in the saints.
We believe also in the only One Catholic and Apostolic Holy Church. In one baptism of repentance for the remission and forgiveness of sins. In the resurrection of the dead, in the everlasting judgment of souls and bodies, in the kingdom of heaven and in the life eternal.
We believe in the all-holy Trinity, in the Father, in the Son, in the Holy Spirit, in the annunciation of Gabriel, in the nativity of Christ, in his baptism, in his passion, in his crucifixion, in his three-day (trihemeral) burial, his resurrection, his ascension as God, his sitting at the right hand of the Father and his awful and glorious second coming, we confess and believe.