This is supremely refreshing to read; they don't do things like this anymore these days.
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| Pope Pius IV |
I,
N, with a firm faith believe and profess each and everything which is contained
in the Creed which the Holy Roman Church maketh use of. To wit:
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, of one substance with the Father. By
whom all things were made. Who for us men and for our salvation came down from
heaven. And became incarnate by the Holy Spirit of the Virgin Mary: and was
made man. He was also crucified for us, suffered under Pontius Pilate, and was
buried. And on the third day He rose again according to the Scriptures. He
ascended into heaven and sits at the right hand of the Father. He will come
again in glory to judge the living and the dead and His kingdom will have no
end. And in the Holy Spirit, the Lord and Giver of life, Who proceeds from the
Father and the Son. Who together with the Father and the Son is adored and
glorified, and who spoke through the prophets. And one holy, Catholic and
Apostolic Church. I confess one baptism for the forgiveness of sins and I await
the resurrection of the dead and the life of the world to come. Amen.
The
Apostolic and Ecclesiastical traditions and all other observances and
constitutions of that same Church I firmly admit to and embrace.
I
also accept the Holy Scripture according to that sense which holy mother the
Church hath held, and doth hold, and to whom it belongeth to judge 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.
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 are necessary for everyone; to wit, Baptism,
Confirmation, Eucharist, Penance, Extreme Unction, Holy Orders, and Matrimony;
and that they confer grace; and that of these, Baptism, Confirmation, and Holy
Orders cannot be repeated without sacrilege. I also receive and admit the
accepted and approved ceremonies of the Catholic Church in the solemn
administration of the aforesaid sacraments.
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 a conversion takes place 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
species alone Christ is received whole and entire, and a true sacrament.
I
steadfastly hold that there is a Purgatory, and that the souls therein detained
are helped by the suffrages of the faithful. Likewise, that the saints,
reigning together with Christ, are to be honored and invoked, and that they
offer prayers to God for us, and that their relics are to be venerated. I most
firmly assert that the images of Christ, of the Mother of God, ever virgin, and
also of other Saints, ought to be kept and retained, and that due honor and
veneration is to be given them.
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.
I
acknowledge the Holy Catholic Apostolic Roman Church as the mother and teacher
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.
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, and by the ecumenical Council of the Vatican,
particularly concerning the primacy of the Roman Pontiff and his infallible
teaching. I condemn, reject, and anathematize all things contrary thereto, and
all heresies which the Church hath condemned, rejected, and anathematized.
This
true Catholic faith, outside of which no one can be saved, which I now freely
profess and to which I truly adhere, I do so profess and swear to maintain
inviolate and with firm constancy with the help of God until the last breath of
life. And I shall strive, as far as possible, that this same faith shall be
held, taught, and professed by all those over whom I have charge. I N. do so
pledge, promise, and swear, so help me God and these Holy Gospels of God.
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