Symbolum Nicaenum
The Nicene Creed
The creed of the Councils of Nicaea and Constantinople, sung at the traditional Mass on Sundays and great feasts.
Credo in unum Deum,
Patrem omnipotentem,
factorem caeli et terrae,
visibilium omnium et invisibilium.
Et in unum Dominum Iesum Christum,
Filium Dei unigenitum,
et ex Patre natum ante omnia saecula.
Deum de Deo, lumen de lumine,
Deum verum de Deo vero,
genitum, non factum,
consubstantialem Patri:
per quem omnia facta sunt.
Qui propter nos homines et propter nostram salutem
descendit de caelis.
Et incarnatus est de Spiritu Sancto
ex Maria Virgine, et homo factus est.
Crucifixus etiam pro nobis sub Pontio Pilato;
passus, et sepultus est.
Et resurrexit tertia die, secundum Scripturas.
Et ascendit in caelum, sedet ad dexteram Patris.
Et iterum venturus est cum gloria,
iudicare vivos et mortuos,
cuius regni non erit finis.
Et in Spiritum Sanctum, Dominum et vivificantem,
qui ex Patre Filioque procedit.
Qui cum Patre et Filio simul adoratur et conglorificatur,
qui locutus est per prophetas.
Et unam, sanctam, catholicam et apostolicam Ecclesiam.
Confiteor unum baptisma in remissionem peccatorum.
Et exspecto resurrectionem mortuorum,
et vitam venturi saeculi. Amen.
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,
born of the 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 Ghost
of the Virgin Mary: and was made man.
He was crucified also for us under Pontius Pilate;
He suffered, and was buried.
And the third day He rose again, according to the Scriptures.
And He ascended into heaven, sitteth at the right hand of the Father.
And He shall come again with glory,
to judge the living and the dead;
of whose kingdom there shall be 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 in one, holy, catholic and apostolic Church.
I confess one Baptism for the remission of sins.
And I look for the resurrection of the dead,
and the life of the world to come. Amen.
Translation source: fisheaters.com/prayers.html
About this prayer
The Nicene Creed, more exactly the Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed, is the great confession of faith forged by the Church in council against heresy. Its central articles were defined at the First Council of Nicaea in the year 325, summoned to answer the Arians, who denied that the Son is truly God. Against them the Fathers confessed the Son to be consubstantial with the Father, God of God, Light of Light, true God of true God, begotten, not made. The First Council of Constantinople in 381 completed the creed, professing at greater length the divinity of the Holy Ghost, the Lord and Giver of life.
Unlike the Apostles' Creed, which the Christian prays chiefly in private devotion, the Nicene Creed belongs to the public worship of the Church. In the traditional Roman Mass it is sung or said after the Gospel and homily on Sundays and the greater feasts, the whole congregation professing together the Faith for which the martyrs shed their blood. At the words that confess the Incarnation, et homo factus est, "and was made man," all genuflect, adoring the mystery by which God was made flesh for our salvation.