ACTS OF FAITH, HOPE, AND CHARITY. 13

ACTS OF FAITH, HOPE, AND CHARITY.

RECOMMENDED TO THE FREQUENT USE OF THE FAITHFUL.

A Prayer to be said before these Acts.

us the increase of Faith, Hope, and Charity, and that we may deserve to obtain what Thou promisest, make us to love what Thou commandest. Through Christ our Lord. Amen.

An Act of Faith.

I

that in this one God there are three per­sons, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost; that the Son took to himself the nature of man from the Virgin Mary's womb, by the operation of the power of the Holy Ghost, and that in this our human nature, He was crucified and died for us; that afterwards He rose again, and ascended up into Heaven, from whence he shall come to repay the just everlasting glory, and the wicked everlasting punishment: Moreover, I believe whatever else the Catholic Church proposes to be be­lieved, and this because God, who is the sovereign truth, which can neither deceive nor be deceived, has revealed all these things to this His Church.