SESSION 2 : 6 January 1870
- Profession of faith
I, Pius, bishop of the catholic
church, with firm faith believe and profess each and every article
contained in the profession of faith which the holy Roman church uses,
namely:
I believe in one God
the
Father almighty,
one
Lord Jesus Christ
the
only-begotten Son of God.
Born
of the Father before all ages.
God
from God,
light
from light,
true
God from true God.
Begotten
not made,
of
one substance with the Father:
through
whom all things were made.
Who
for us humans and for our salvation
came
down from heaven.
He
was incarnate by the holy Spirit of the virgin Mary: and became man.
He
was
crucified also for us, he suffered under Pontius Pilate and was
buried. The third day he
rose
again according to the scriptures. He
ascended
into heaven and sits at the right hand of the Father.
He
shall come again with glory to judge the living and the dead, and of
his kingdom there shall be no end. And in
the
holy Spirit,
the
lord and the giver of life, who
proceeds
from the Father and the Son.
Who
together with the Father and the Son is adored and glorified: who
spoke
through the prophets. And
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.
Apostolic
and ecclesiastical traditions and all other observances and constitutions
of that same church I most firmly accept and embrace.
Likewise
I accept sacred scripture
according
to that sense which holy mother church held and holds,
since
it is her right to judge of the true sense and interpretation of the
holy scriptures;
nor
will I ever receive and interpret them except according to the unanimous
consent of the fathers.
I profess
also that
there
are seven sacraments of the new law,
truly
and properly so called,
instituted
by our lord Jesus Christ and
necessary
for salvation,
though
each person need not receive them all.
They
are:
1. baptism,
2. confirmation,
3. the Eucharist,
4. penance,
5. last anointing,
6. order and
7. matrimony; and
they
confer grace.
Of
these
baptism,
confirmation
and
order
may not be repeated without
sacrilege.
I
likewise receive and accept the rites of the catholic church
which have been received and approved in the solemn administration of all
the aforesaid sacraments.
I embrace
and accept the whole and every part of what was defined and declared
by the holy council of Trent concerning original sin and justification.
Likewise
I profess
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 there takes place the conversion of the
whole substance of the bread into his body, and of the whole substance of
the wine into his blood, and this conversion the catholic church calls transubstantiation.
I confess
that under either species alone the whole and complete Christ and
the true sacrament are received.
I
firmly hold that
purgatory
exists, and that
the
souls detained there are helped by the suffrages of the faithful.
Likewise, that
the
saints reigning with Christ are to be honoured and prayed to, and
that
they
offer prayers to God on our behalf, and that
their
relics should be venerated.
I
resolutely assert that images of
1. Christ and
2. the ever virgin mother
of God, and likewise those of
3. the other saints,
are to be kept and retained, and
that due honour and reverence is to be shown them.
I affirm
that the power of indulgences was left by Christ in the church, and
that their use is eminently beneficial to the christian people.
I acknowledge
the
0. holy,
1. catholic,
2. apostolic and
3. Roman
church, the mother and
mistress of all the churches 1.
Likewise
0. all other things
which have been transmitted, defined and declared by the sacred canons
and the ecumenical councils, especially the sacred Trent, I accept
unhesitatingly and profess; in the same way
1. whatever is to the
contrary, and whatever heresies have been condemned, rejected and
anathematised by the church, I too condemn, reject and anathematise.
This true catholic faith, < be can none which of>, which I now freely profess
and truly hold, is what I shall steadfastly maintain and confess, by the
help of God, in all its completeness and purity until my dying breath, and I
shall do my best to ensure 2 that all others do the same. This is what
I, the same Pius, promise, vow and swear. So help me God and these holy gospels
of God.
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