Sunday of the Holy Trinity, Part VII

This is the catholic faith,
which except a man believe faithfully
he cannot be saved.

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The Athanasian Creed is perhaps the most challenging creed. It not only states that which the Church confesses, it says you must believe it!

Here is a wonderful hymn tune based on "Gott Der Vater, Wohn Uns Bei."

The original text devotes one verse to each person of the Trinity. The first line changes in each verse, but the body of the hymn stays the same. The option is to sing one verse, where the first line is, "Triune God, O Be Our Stay..."

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God the Father, be our Stay,
Oh, let us perish never.
Cleanse us from our sins, we pray,
And grant us life forever.
Keep us from the Evil One;
Uphold our faith most holy,
Grant us to trust Thee solely
With humble hearts and lowly.
Let us put God's armor on:
With all true Christians running
Our heavenly race and shunning
The devil's wiles and cunning.
Amen, Amen, this be done,
So sing we, Hallelujah!



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Jesus Christ, be Thou our Stay,
Oh, let us perish never.
Cleanse us from our sins, we pray,
And grant us life forever.
Keep us from the Evil One;
Uphold our faith most holy,
Grant us to trust Thee solely
With humble hearts and lowly.
Let us put God's armor on:
With all true Christians running
Our heavenly race and shunning
The devil's wiles and cunning.
Amen, Amen, this be done,
So sing we, Hallelujah!



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Holy Ghost, be Thou our Stay,
Oh, let us perish never.
Cleanse us from our sins, we pray,
And grant us life forever.
Keep us from the Evil One;
Uphold our faith most holy,
Grant us to trust Thee solely
With humble hearts and lowly.
Let us put God's armor on:
With all true Christians running
Our heavenly race and shunning
The devil's wiles and cunning.
Amen, Amen, this be done,
So sing we, Hallelujah!



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Triune God, O Be Our Stay
Oh, let us perish never.
Cleanse us from our sins, we pray,
And grant us life forever.
Keep us from the Evil One;
Uphold our faith most holy,
Grant us to trust Thee solely
With humble hearts and lowly.
Let us put God's armor on:
With all true Christians running
Our heavenly race and shunning
The devil's wiles and cunning.
Amen, Amen, this be done,
So sing we, Hallelujah!

Sunday of the Holy Trinity, Part VI

Athanasian Creed, Part VI

For as the reasonable soul
and flesh is one man,
so God and man is one Christ;

Who suffered for our salvation,
descended into hell,
rose again the third day from the dead;

He ascended into heaven,
He sits on the right hand
of the Father, God, Almighty;

From thence He shall come
to judge the quick and the dead.

At whose coming all men
shall rise again with their bodies;

and shall give account of their own works.

And they that have done good
shall go into life everlasting
and they that have done evil
into everlasting fire.


O Sacred Head Now Wounded

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Jesus Christ is Risen Today
with Jesus Lives, The Victory's Won

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The Day Is Surely Drawing Near I

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The Day Is Surely Drawing Near II

Sunday of the Holy Trinity, Part V

Athanasian Creed, Part V

Furthermore it is necessary
to everlasting salvation
that he also believe rightly
the incarnation of our Lord Jesus Christ.

For the right faith is
that we believe and confess
that our Lord Jesus Christ,
the Son of God,
is God and man.

God of the substance of the Father,
begotten before the worlds;
and man of substance of His mother,
born in the world.

Perfect God and perfect man,
of a reasonable soul
and human flesh subsisting.

Equal to the Father
as touching His Godhead,
and inferior to the Father
as touching His manhood.

Who, although He is God and man,
yet He is not two, but one Christ.

One, not by conversion
of the Godhead into flesh,
but by taking of that manhood into God.

One altogether,
not by confusion of substance,
but by unity of person.


Of The Father's Love Begotten

Sunday of the Holy Trinity, Part IV

Athanasian Creed, Part IV

The Father is made of none,
neither created nor begotten.

The Son is of the Father alone;
not made nor created, but begotten.

The Holy Spirit is of the Father
and of the Son;
neither made,
nor created,
nor begotten,
but proceeding.

So there is one Father,
not three Fathers;
one Son,
not three Sons;
one Holy Spirit,
not three Holy Spirits.

And in this Trinity none is
before or after another;
none is greater or less than another.

But the whole three persons
are coeternal, and coequal.

So that in all things, as aforesaid,
the Unity in Trinity
and the Trinity in Unity
is to be worshipped.

He therefore that will be saved
must thus think of the Trinity.


This is in Hong Kong, sung in the local dialect.

Sunday of the Holy Trinity, Part III

Athanasian Creed, Part III

So likewise the Father is almighty,
the Son almighty,
and the Holy Spirit almighty.

And yet they are not three almighties,
but one almighty.

So the Father is God,
the Son is God,
and the Holy Spirit is God;

And yet they are not three Gods,
but one God.

So likewise the Father is Lord,
the Son Lord,
and the Holy Spirit Lord;

And yet they are not three Lords
but one Lord.

For like as we are compelled
by the Christian verity
to acknowledge every Person by himself
to be God and Lord;

So are we forbidden
by the catholic religion to say;
There are three Gods
or three Lords.

Sunday of the Holy Trinity, Part II

Athanasian Creed, Part II

For there is one person of the Father,
another of the Son,
and another of the Holy Spirit.

But the Godhead of the Father,
of the Son,
and of the Holy Spirit
is all one,
the glory equal,
the majesty coeternal.

Such as the Father is,
such is the Son,
and such is the Holy Spirit.

The Father uncreated,
the Son uncreated,
and the Holy Spirit uncreated.

The Father incomprehensible,
the Son incomprehensible,
and the Holy Spirit incomprehensible.

The Father eternal,
the Son eternal,
and the Holy Spirit eternal.

And yet they are not three eternals
but one eternal.

As also there are not three uncreated
nor three incomprehensible,
but one uncreated
and one incomprehensible.


"Holy, Holy, Holy" in Greek

Sunday of the Holy Trinity, Part I

Today is the celebration of the Holy Trinity.

I commend to you the Athenasian Creed for an accurate summary of this doctrine.

English speaking churches often replace the word "catholic," which means "universal" with the word "Christian" in the Nicene Creed. In this creed, however, the word has been retained for 500 years.

Athanasian Creed, Part I

Whosoever will be saved,
before all things it is necessary
that he hold the catholic faith;


Which faith except every one do keep
whole and undefiled,
without doubt he shall perish everlastingly.

And the catholic faith is this:
That we worship one God in Trinity,
and Trinity in Unity;

Neither confounding the persons
nor dividing the substance.