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Why We Need the Creed: An Anniversary That Matters, by Dr. R. Jared Staudt – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

Why We Need the Creed: An Anniversary That Matters, by Dr. R. Jared Staudt

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July 11, 2025
Founder’s Quote
July 11, 2025

Detail from an icon depicting the Emperor Constantine and the bishops of the First Council of Nicaea (325) holding the Niceno–Constantinopolitan Creed of 381. (Image: Wikipedia)

By Dr. R. Jared Staudt, Catholic World Report, July 10, 2025

R. Jared Staudt PhD, serves as Director of Content for Exodus 90 and as an instructor for the lay division of St. John Vianney Seminary. …

 

When we recite the Council of Nicaea’s Creed each Sunday (with additions from the First Council of Constantinople), we profess the truth that we have received from Jesus himself, handed down through each generation of the Church.

Anniversaries help us to remember and celebrate the gifts we have received: our life, milestones in our vocation and the most important events of history.

This Jubilee Year, we celebrate 1700 years from the First Council of Nicaea, which met from May 20th through August 25th in the year 325.

The Emperor Constantine, fresh from his victory over Licinius, making him the sole Roman Emperor, was keen to bring peace also to the Church, embroiled as it was in controversy. ….

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