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Beliefs
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We firmly believe and confess without reservation that there is only one true God, eternal infinite and unchangeable, incomprehensible, almighty and ineffable, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit; three persons indeed, but one essence, substance or nature entirely simple.
We firmly believe the mystery of the Most Holy Trinity is the central mystery of Christian faith and life. It is the mystery of God in himself. It is therefore the source of all the other mysteries of faith, the light that enlightens them. It is the most fundamental and essential teaching in the "hierarchy of the truths of faith". Therefore, the whole history of salvation is identical with the history of the way and the means by which the one true God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, reveals himself to men "and reconciles and unites with himself those who turn away from sin".
We believe in the Revelation of God and His Son, Jesus Christ found in the Holy Bible, and that the Holy Bible is inerrant in matters of faith.
We believe in the Holy Eucharist as the True and Real Presence of the Body and Blood, Soul and Divinity, of Our Risen Glorified Savior, Our Lord Jesus Christ. We solemnly affirm that the Most Holy Eucharist is central to our faith and is the “source and summit” of our Catholic identity.
We believe in the Sacred Traditions of the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church.
We believe that Holy and Sacred Traditions with the Holy Scriptures, the Word of God, form the one deposit of Faith. We believe that the bishops of the Church are the successors to the Holy Apostles. We note that our bishops uphold the teaching authority as granted to the Apostles by Jesus Christ. We affirm that the authority of our bishops are equally and jointly held by all bishops.
We believe in the Seven Sacraments: Baptism, Confirmation, Reconciliation, Holy Eucharist, Matrimony, Holy Orders, and Anointing of the Sick. These Seven Sacraments are signs of God’s abiding presence among us as He continues to pour out His Grace upon His Holy People, The Church.
We believe that we are called by Jesus Christ to preach the Gospel to all by sharing the Good News that we are truly saved by His life, death, resurrection.
We believe that matter of the Faith may be defined for the Church only in the presence of a moral consensus of all bishops and that to be considered normative for the Church, a teaching proposed by the bishops in a matter of the Faith must also be received by a moral consensus of His Church people.
We believe that Apostolic Succession, privileged in the bishops and passed on by them in the Sacrament of Holy Orders, is necessary for the licit and efficacious celebration of the Sacraments.
We accept and believe in the normative decrees of the first Seven Ecumenical Councils
of the undivided Church, through: The Council of Nicea in 325 AD; Constantinople
in 381 AD; Ephesus in 431 AD; Chalcedon in 451 AD; Constantinople II in 553 AD; Constantinople
III in 680-
We accept the commonly called Nicene Creed as our statement of faith. We also accept the Apostles’ and Athanasian Creeds as equally valid statements of faith.