Saint Patrick’s Creed

Saint PatrickThere is no other God,
and there never was another,
nor will there be any after him
besides God the Father, without beginning.
From him is all beginning.
He upholds all things.

And his Son Jesus Christ
whom together with the Father
we testify to have always existed.
Before the beginning of the world
he was spiritually present with the Father.
Begotten in an indescribable manner before all beginning.
By him all things visible and invisible were made.

He was made man,
and having overcome death
was received into heaven to the Father:
And the Father has bestowed on him
the name that is above every name,
so that at the name of Jesus
every knee should bow,
in heaven and on earth and under the earth,
and every tongue confess
that Jesus Christ is Lord and God.

In him we believe,
and we await his coming
who before long shall judge the quick and dead.
He will render to everyone according to his deeds.

And he has poured out abundantly on us
the gift of the Holy Spirit,
even the pledge of immortality,
who makes those that believe and obey
to be the sons of God the Father
and joint-heirs with Christ.

Him we confess and adore:
one God in the Trinity of the sacred name.

— From The Confession of St. Patrick