I believe in God, the Father Almighty,
the Cre­ator of heav­en and earth,
and in Jesus Christ, His only Son, our Lord:
Who was con­ceived of the Holy Spir­it,
born of the Vir­gin Mary,
suf­fered under Pon­tius Pilate,
was cru­ci­fied, died, and was buried.
He descend­ed to the dead.
The third day He arose again from the dead.
He ascend­ed into heav­en
and sits at the right hand of God the Father Almighty,
whence He shall come to judge the liv­ing and the dead.
I believe in the Holy Spir­it,
the holy catholic¹ church,
the com­mu­nion of saints,
the for­give­ness of sins,
the res­ur­rec­tion of the body,
and life ever­last­ing.
Amen.

1. We use the term “Catholic” not in ref­er­ence to a denom­i­na­tion, but in its orig­i­nal mean­ing: gen­er­al, uni­ver­sal. There is only one church of Jesus Christ, the fel­low­ship of those who hold to “the faith which was once for all hand­ed down to the saints” (Jude 3). ↩