"Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed" – Blaise Pascal
I can’t recite the Nicene Creed from memory. At our Lutheran church in Philly we usually recited the Apostle’s Creed and I pretty much have that down (praying the Rosary helps with this too). But the liturgy at the church we’ve been attending in Boston uses the Nicene Creed and I always have to refer to the Prayer Book to get it right.
This week’s project: memorize the Nicene Creed!
I used to be able to do it from memory when I was a kid (the translation used by the LC-MS, with “very God of very God,” which I like, and “holy Christian and apostolic church,” which I don’t so much like), but in the move from the Synod to the ELCA and then to the UCC and Independent Catholicism (with visits to lots of other churches), I’m lost in all the translations. I stumble every few lines because I don’t remember who says what.
I miss “very God of very God” in particular. 🙂
Egad! For some reason, I keep visualizing Ned Flanders’ fainting spell when Bart and Lisa told him they’d never been baptized.
Church of the Advent, Lee?
I like ‘very God of very God’ as well. Like Chris T. it was in the first version I ever heard.
And for your edification here is the Nicene Creed in four languages, including the traditional Book of Common Prayer version I just mentioned.
Yeah, we’re still going to the Advent. But so far just the 9 am sung mass. I haven’t been brave enough for the 11 o’clock high mass with the full panoply (I presume) of Anglo-Catholic bells and whistles. 😉
A Thinking Reed 
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