At the Easter Sunday Mass this past weekend, when we said the Nicene Creed, I wondered why we had the Nicene Creed as well as the Apostle's Creed, and what the differences were. At a regular Mass we always say the Nicene Creed, but in the case of a children's Mass or in the Rosary, we pray the Apostle's Creed. Why is that?
When I finally looked it up, I found out that the Apostle's Creed is
called that because it was used on the day of Pentecost and was the
basic sum-up of the Church's beliefs to the people that crowded around
the apostles that day. The council of Nicaea was an Ecumenical Council
in 325 A.D. that had the sole purpose of proving that the Arianism, or
the belief that Jesus was not divine, was wrong. So, a more precise
Creed was made in the Nicene Creed. Later, in 381, the Council of
Constantinople modified the Nicene Creed and adopted a creed written by
St.Epiphanius of Salamis, called the Nicene-Constantinopolitan Symbol,
which is the Creed that we say in Mass starting in around 500 A.D.
When I finally looked it up, I found out that the Apostle's Creed is
called that because it was used on the day of Pentecost and was the
basic sum-up of the Church's beliefs to the people that crowded around
the apostles that day. The council of Nicaea was an Ecumenical Council
in 325 A.D. that had the sole purpose of proving that the Arianism, or
the belief that Jesus was not divine, was wrong. So, a more precise
Creed was made in the Nicene Creed. Later, in 381, the Council of
Constantinople modified the Nicene Creed and adopted a creed written by
St.Epiphanius of Salamis, called the Nicene-Constantinopolitan Symbol,
which is the Creed that we say in Mass starting in around 500 A.D.
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