We Believe...

  1. We believe in One God who eternally exists in three persons, the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost.

  2. We believe that Christ, the eternal Word who assumed human nature in the man Jesus, made one atoning sacrifice for the sins of
 the whole world and that on the third day he bodily rose again. 

  3. We believe the Bible to be God’s Word written, containing all things necessary for salvation.

  4. We hold the Apostles, Nicene, and Athanasian Creeds to be the normative standard for Christian belief.

  5. We believe in two Gospel Sacraments—Holy Baptism and Holy Communion—as necessary for salvation.

 6. We hold the Catholic Church to be that Body of faithful Christians where the Word—Jesus Christ our Lord—is faithfully
 proclaimed both in Preaching and the Celebration of the Gospel Sacraments.

  7. We believe that the Anglican tradition represents the most balanced union of the Catholic and Reformed traditions. 

  8. We hold the historic prayer book tradition to be normative for our worship and belief. The 1928 Book of Common Prayer is
 especially important to us as Episcopalians because it is the last American revision in the Anglican tradition of common prayer.

  9. We hold the Thirty-Nine Articles to be an abiding source of authority for doctrine and belief.

10. The Catechism in the Book of Common Prayer summarizes our faith, and is especially useful for basic instruction in the
 fundamentals of Christianity for children and converts