The life, mission, death and resurrection of Christ.
The second article of the Creed is, "and in Jesus Christ, his only Son, our Lord".
Jesus Christ is God the Son, made man for us.
Jesus Christ is truly God.
Jesus Christ is truly God because he has one and the same nature with God the Father.
Jesus Christ was always God, born of the Father from all eternity.
Jesus Christ is the Second Person of the Blessed Trinity.
Jesus Christ is truly man.
Jesus Christ is truly man because he has the nature of man, having a body and soul like ours.
Jesus Christ was not always man. He has been man only from the time of his Incarnation.
I mean by the Incarnation that God the Son took to himself the nature of man: "the Word was made flesh".
There are two natures in Jesus Christ, the nature of God and the nature of man.
There is only one Person in Jesus Christ, which is the Person of God the Son.
God the Son was made man to redeem us from sin and hell, and to teach us the way to heaven.
The holy name Jesus means Saviour.
The name Christ means Anointed.
As God, Jesus Christ is everywhere. As God made man, he is in heaven, and in the Blessed Sacrament of the Altar.
The third article of the Creed is, "who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary".
The third article means that God the Son took a body and soul like ours, in the womb of the Blessed Virgin Mary, by the power of the Holy Spirit.
Jesus Christ had no father on earth: St Joseph was only his guardian or foster father.
Our Saviour was born in a stable at Bethlehem.
Our Saviour was born on Christmas Day.
The fourth article of the Creed is, "suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died and was buried."
The chief sufferings of Christ were: first, his agony, and his sweat of blood in the Garden; secondly, his being scourged at the pillar, and crowned with thorns; and thirdly his carrying his cross, his crucifixion, and his death between two thieves.
The chief sufferings of our Lord are called the Passion of Jesus Christ.
Our Saviour suffered to atone for our sins, and to purchase for us eternal life.
Jesus Christ is called our Redeemer because his precious blood is the price by which we were ransomed.
Our Saviour died on Good Friday.
Our Saviour died on Mount Calvary.
The fifth article of the Creed is, "he descended into hell; on the third day he rose again from the dead".
By the words "he descended into hell" I mean that, as soon as Christ was dead, his blessed Soul went down into that part of Hell called Limbo.
By Limbo I mean a place of rest, where the souls of the just who died before Christ were detained.
The souls of the just were detained in Limbo because they could not go up to the kingdom of heaven till Christ had opened it for them.
By the words "on the third day he rose again from the dead", I mean that, after Christ had been dead and buried part of three days, he raised his blessed Body to life again on the third day.
Christ rose again from the dead on Easter Sunday.
The sixth article of the Creed is, "he ascended into heaven, and is seated at the right hand of God the Father almighty".
By the words "he ascended into heaven", I mean that our Saviour went up Body and Soul into heaven on Ascension Day forty days after his Resurrection.
By the words, "is seated at the right hand of God the Father Almighty", I do not mean that God the Father has hands, for he is a spirit; but I mean that Christ, as God, is equal to the Father and, as man, is in the highest place in Heaven.
The seventh article of the Creed is, "from there he will come to judge the living and the dead".
Christ will come again from heaven at the last day, to judge all mankind.
Christ will judge our thoughts, words, works, and omissions.