WE BELIEVE
There have been Christians in Wales since the Romans occupied these lands, and village names and church dedications often remember the Celtic saints of early centuries, long before St Augustine arrived in England as a missionary sent by Pope Gregory. Churches in Wales then joined with the Roman Catholic Church, and were part of this until in the 16th Century the Tudor King Henry VIII separated the Church in England and Wales from the authority of the Pope. A process of reformation had already begun and continued apace. A key part of this was the provision of the Bible in English and in Welsh, available for all people to read and study, not just priests, nuns and monks. The Church in Wales can therefore claim Celtic roots, and be described as catholic (universal) and evangelical (proclaiming the Gospel of Jesus Christ).
The Bro Eifionydd Ministry Area is part of the Church in Wales, an autonomous province within the worldwide Anglican Communion. This means that our faith is based on the Catholic Creeds in which we profess our belief in God, revealed as Father, Son and Holy Spirit, and in the Church as the community of those united by our common Baptism into the Body of Christ.
This faith finds its focus in the person of the Incarnate Christ, who is both truly human and fully divine. In Christ, God empties himself to share our human life with all its joys and sorrows and through his Resurrection and Ascension he holds before us the hope of eternal life, and that our lives here and now can be transformed into the image and likeness of God.
Our faith is uniquely revealed to us through the Bible and especially the Gospels. It is also formed and grows through study of the scriptures, through the teaching and tradition of the Church, but especially through a life of prayer.
In the modern age, we are increasingly faced by ethical dilemmas that fall outside the experience of the ancient world, such as changed views of gender roles and sexual identity and scientific developments in medicine, like stem cell research. Here we must be bold and take our courage into our own hands and be prepared to make ethical judgments using the mind that God has given us, informed by the principles of the teaching of Jesus and the traditions of the Church.
We express our faith in worship, and the sacraments are an essential part of the Church's life - the Sacraments of Baptism, Confirmation, Marriage, Reconciliation, Healing and Ordination and in particular the Holy Eucharist, in which we partake of the Body and Blood of Christ.
But we also express our faith through a life of sacrificial service to our neighbours, at work, as individuals, in family life and through involvement in the community and, for instance, in the work of the Mothers Union.
The Bro Eifionydd Ministry Area is part of the Church in Wales, an autonomous province within the worldwide Anglican Communion. This means that our faith is based on the Catholic Creeds in which we profess our belief in God, revealed as Father, Son and Holy Spirit, and in the Church as the community of those united by our common Baptism into the Body of Christ.
This faith finds its focus in the person of the Incarnate Christ, who is both truly human and fully divine. In Christ, God empties himself to share our human life with all its joys and sorrows and through his Resurrection and Ascension he holds before us the hope of eternal life, and that our lives here and now can be transformed into the image and likeness of God.
Our faith is uniquely revealed to us through the Bible and especially the Gospels. It is also formed and grows through study of the scriptures, through the teaching and tradition of the Church, but especially through a life of prayer.
In the modern age, we are increasingly faced by ethical dilemmas that fall outside the experience of the ancient world, such as changed views of gender roles and sexual identity and scientific developments in medicine, like stem cell research. Here we must be bold and take our courage into our own hands and be prepared to make ethical judgments using the mind that God has given us, informed by the principles of the teaching of Jesus and the traditions of the Church.
We express our faith in worship, and the sacraments are an essential part of the Church's life - the Sacraments of Baptism, Confirmation, Marriage, Reconciliation, Healing and Ordination and in particular the Holy Eucharist, in which we partake of the Body and Blood of Christ.
But we also express our faith through a life of sacrificial service to our neighbours, at work, as individuals, in family life and through involvement in the community and, for instance, in the work of the Mothers Union.
