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are united in the Spirit of love. The believer thus
states that the core of all being, the inmost secret
of all reality, is the divine communion. The creed
also contains a christological confession: it takes
us through all the mysteries of ChristâÂÂs life up to
his death, resurrection and ascension into heaven
before his final return in glory. It tells us that this
God of communion, reciprocal love between the
Father and the Son in the Spirit, is capable of
embracing all of human history and drawing it
into the dynamic unity of the Godhead, which
has its source and fulfillment in the Father. The
believer who professes his or her faith is taken
up, as it were, into the truth being professed. He
or she cannot truthfully recite the words of the
creed without being changed, without becoming
part of that history of love which embraces us
and expands our being, making it part of a great
fellowship, the ultimate subject which recites
the creed, namely, the Church. All the truths in
which we believe point to the mystery of the new
life of faith as a journey of communion with the
living God.
Faith, prayer and the Decalogue
46.âÂÂTwo other elements are essential in the
faithful transmission of the ChurchâÂÂs memory.
First, the LordâÂÂs Prayer, the âÂÂOur FatherâÂÂ. Here
Christians learn to share in ChristâÂÂs own spiritual
experience and to see all things through his eyes.
From him who is light from light, the only-
begotten Son of the Father, we come to know
