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    Nicene Creed

    • In the Nicene Creed, we profess, “I believe


    in one, holy, catholic, and apostolic Church.”
    These are the four marks of the Church.
    • They are inseparable and intrinsically linked
    to one another.
    Christ Marked the Church
    • These characteristics reflect the Church’s essential features and
    mission.
    • Through the continued guidance of the Holy Spirit, the Church fulfills
    these marks.

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    One
    How is the Church One?
    • united in charity
    • one in the profession of
    faith
    • one in the common
    celebration of worship and
    Sacraments
    • one in the Apostolic
    Succession
    One
    The Church is One because of . .
    .
    • its source, the Holy Trinity, a
    perfect unity of three Divine
    Persons
    • its founder, Jesus Christ, who
    came to reconcile all mankind
    • its “soul,” the Holy Spirit, who
    dwells in the souls of the
    faithful, unites all the faithful
    into one communion of
    believers, and guides the Church
    One • There is “one body and one
    Spirit, as you were also called
    to the one hope of your call;
    one Lord, one faith, one
    baptism; one God and Father
    of all” (Ephesians 4:4–6).
    • “Because the loaf of bread is
    one, we, though many, are
    one body, for we all partake of
    the one loaf” (1 Corinthians
    10:17).
    • Jesus had promised at the
    outset that “there will be one
    flock, one shepherd” (John
    10:16).
    Holy
    The Church is Holy because, although Church members sin, the Church
    as the Body of Christ is sinless.

    Image in public domain


    Holy
    We profess that the Church is holy because the Holy Spirit lives in her.
    She is the ‘’ holy people of God’ ’and its members are ‘’ saints’’ (
    meaning, ‘’ holy ones’’)
    Though the Church is holy, we the members of the Church, are both
    holy and sinful.

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    We are always in need of conversion.
    Holiness is something we must achieve, with God’s help and grace.
    the Church has always had a models of holiness.
    Holy
    • What the saints teach us is just what Jesus taught: that the way to
    holiness is to love God above all and to love our neighbor as ourselves
    for the love of God.

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    Holy
    “Christ loved the Church
    and handed himself over
    for her to sanctify her,
    cleansing her by the bath
    of water with the word,
    that he might present to
    himself the church in
    splendor, without spot or
    wrinkle or any such thing,
    that she might be holy
    and without blemish”
    (Ephesians 5:25–27). Image in public domain
    Holy
    • From the beginning,
    the Church has been
    endowed with the
    sacramental means
    to help make holy the
    sinners who are found
    in the Church.
    • The Church has been
    given the Sacraments © Gene Plaisted

    along with the Word precisely in order to


    be able to make sinners holy.
    Holy
    • Each of us as a member of the Church has been called to holiness.
    • By God’s grace we strive for holiness, through the power of the Holy
    Spirit.

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    HOLY
    • Each of us as a member of the Church
    has been called to holiness.
    • By God’s grace we strive for holiness
    through the power of the Holy Spirit.
    CATHOLIC
    • When we say Church is Catholic, we are
    saying two things:
    • The Church possesses the fullness of Christ
    and has received from him the fullness of the
    means of salvation.
    • The Church has been sent a mission by Christ
    to all people in the world to gather all into
    the People of God
    Catholic
    • The Holy Spirit came down upon the Church at Pentecost at a time
    when ‘’there were devout Jews from every nation under heaven
    staying in Jerusalem (Acts 2:5)
    • It was them the Holy Spirit temporarily enabled the Apostles to
    speak in the languages of all these various nations – a powerful
    sign that the Church was destined for all people everywhere
    Catholic
    • The Church is Catholic because it exists for all people and is
    the means of salvation for all people

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