Lent Course 2025: Lent discussions on the Nicene Creed

  We started by praying a prayer of St Anselm and noticed his exploration of joy in the third paragraph this time. This session was different in that we reflected on what we'd been doing throughout the course with some overarching themes. As we were discussing experiences of the Holy Spirit, it was also agreed  that some of our shares on this topic would be private. In exploring the Creed we had been able to deepen our relationship with God and examine our faith. It hadn't just been analysing the wording of the Creed in an intellectual way. What do the words 'Holy Spirit' make you think of and is it important that it is mentioned in the Creed? We believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the Giver of life, who proceeds from the Father and the Son. With the Father and the Son He is worshipped and glorified. He has spoken through the prophets. The feeling was that it is important that it is mentioned in the Creed as the 3rd party of the Trinity and we need to understand that ...

We started by praying a prayer of St Anselm and noted that St Anselm wrote approximately 500 years after the Nicene Creed was put together. Although he wrote in Latin, it was perhaps one of the first times someone had put theology into normal language. He had faith and was seeking understanding. (The picture is of Johnathan Roumie, an actor, who plays the role of Jesus in a recent film called 'The Chosen'.) Last week we studied the first part of the Creed which is about Jesus' divinity : We believe in one God,     the Father, the Almighty,     maker of heaven and earth,     of all that is, seen and unseen. We believe in one Lord, Jesus Christ,     the only Son of God,     eternally begotten of the Father,     God from God, Light from Light,     true God from true God,     begotten, not made,     of one Being ...