Does your community still say the Nicean Creed? (Main Forum)

by Margaret T , Adelaide SA, Sunday, April 29, 2012, 17:10 (387 days ago) @ Brian Coyne

We say the Apostles Creed in our Parish. This one annoys me because of its reference to Christ "descending into Hell". It always confused me when I was a child because I didn't see how it was that Christ could go to Hell. Of course I subsequently learned that the term should be Hades, the Abode of the Dead, not Hell, the place of eternal punishment. I wonder how many modern youngsters will get confused too?

I have been somewhere in recent times where the altered version of the Nicean Creed was said and I can only think it was while I was in Ireland back in February. I went twice to Sunday Mass there in a small country town (the church was the size and in the style of a young cathedral!). Very few people made any responses at all of either new or old version. There was no music, no procession in or out, no Offertory procession and on the first Sunday the only lay involvement was in the shape of two lay Ministers assisting in the distribution of Communion, hosts only, no wine. The following Sunday they did have a lay reader as well as the Special Ministers. All the lay people involved were women!
The Parish notices were read by the priest immediately after the Prayer of the Faithful which is a grave liturgical no-no.

I also attended Mass twice in a nursing home run by Camillian priests and brothers. They have a magnificent chapel there. Again there was a lay reader but the distribution of Communion was like the pre Vatican 11 days where the priest rushed up and back across a line of people, although we were standing not kneeling. There were no lay Special Ministers because there was a Camillian Brother assisting the priest. Again Communion was only under one species. I didn't get around to finding out if the laity have ever had both Bread and Wine at Communion as the normal thing at Mass.

Margaret T