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| The Creed and the Lord’s Prayer Demand the Exercise of Faith, Hope, and Love.
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Chapter 7.—The
Creed and the Lord’s Prayer Demand the Exercise of Faith, Hope,
and Love.
For you have the Creed and the
Lord’s Prayer. What can be briefer to hear or to read? What
easier to commit to memory? When, as the result of sin, the
human race was groaning under a heavy load of misery, and was in
urgent need of the divine compassion, one of the prophets,
anticipating the time of God’s grace, declared: “And it shall
come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord
shall be delivered.”1096
Hence the Lord’s Prayer. But the
apostle, when, for the purpose of commending this very grace, he
had quoted this prophetic testimony, immediately added: “How then
shall they call on Him in whom they have not believed?”1097
Hence the
Creed. In these two you have those three graces exemplified: faith
believes, hope and love pray. But without faith the two last cannot
exist, and therefore we may say that faith also prays. Whence it is
written: “How shall they call on Him in whom they have not
believed?”E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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