As we draw our Nicene Creed anniversary celebrations to a close, we share this inspiring and thought-provoking poem which has been composed especially for our diocese by one of our LGBTQ+ chaplains.  We encourage you to share it with your chaplaincies and communities and indeed to consider creating your own poem to express what proclaiming the words of the Creed means to you.  

I Love Saying the Creed

I love saying the Creed
Together and preferably in song
Singing the song of the Church
And filling my heart, my lungs my being with the beauty of salvation
The Creator ever creating
With such energy the boundless reaches of cold space
With such mathematical precision chemical constructs across numberless galaxies

I love saying the Creed

With my body I bow and bless
And thrill to the knowledge that God has a body too
Nothing is beyond God 
With so much beyond our human imagining, our human heart, our human loving

That’s why I love the very flesh of God
Because God understands and forgives and will never let us go
Even when life is darkest

I love saying the Creed
It takes me - body, mind and spirit to different places
Old places, honoured places, new ones too
Where with the whole Church, through time and space
Transfigured by the love of God, by the Spirit,
The whole Church becomes Christ through time and space

More than anything we can imagine

I love saying the Creed
Empowered by belonging to the Body
I know that

the misunderstanding, the cowardice, the bigotry and disdain, the laziness and

judgement, the cruelty and stupidity, the bullying and fear of something so ancient and

so new…

Will not be forever
But will be healed in the Body of Christ

Because it’s a wound 
And Jesus heals all who ask 

I love saying the Creed
Because it’s not just about me
It’s about all of us
So I’ll carry on singing 
Till we’re all in tune with heaven

Amen.

You can download a copy of the poem here:  I Love Saying the Creed

We would love to hear your own poem if you wish to share: communications@europe.anglican.org