Tridentine PROFESSION of faith

        I, N.______, with firm faith believe and profess all and everything which is 

         contained in the creed of faith, which the Holy Roman Church uses,

         namely: I believe in one God the Father Almighty, creator of heaven

         and earth, of all things visible and invisible; and in one Lord Jesus Christ,

         the only-begotten Son of God, and born of the Father before all ages, God 

         of God, light of light, true God of true God, begotten not made, consub-

         stantial with the Father, by whom all things were made; who for us men 

         and for our salvation descended from heaven, and became incarnate by 

         the Holy Spirit of the Virgin Mary, and was made man; he was also

         crucified for us under Pontius Pilate, suffered, and was buried; and he 

         rose on the third day according to the Scriptures, and ascended into 

         heaven; he sitteth at the right hand of the Father, and will come again 

         with glory to judge the living and dead, of whose kingdom there shall

         be no end; and in the Holy Spirit, the Lord and giver of life, who proceeds 

         from the Father and the Son; who together with the Father and the Son is 

         adored and glorified, who spoke through the prophets; and in one holy 

         Catholic and apostolic Church. I confess one baptism for the remission 

          of sins, and I await the resurrection of the dead, and the life of the world 

          to come. Amen.

          The apostolic and ecclesiastical traditions and all other observances   

and constitutions of that same Church I most firmly admit and embrace. 

I likewise accept Holy Scripture according to the sense which our holy 

Mother Church has held and does hold, whose [office] it is to judge of 

the true meaning and interpretation of the Sacred Scriptures; I shall never 

accept nor interpret it otherwise than in accordance with the unanimous 

consent of the Fathers.

          I also profess that there are truly and properly seven sacraments of the

New Law instituted by Jesus Christ our Lord, and necessary for the salvation 

of mankind, although not all are necessary for each individual; these sacraments 

are baptism, confirmation, the Eucharist, penance, extreme unction, order, and matrimony; and I [profess] that they confer grace, and that of these baptism, 

confirmation, and order cannot be repeated without sacrilege. I also receive 

and admit the accepted and approved rites of the Catholic Church in the solemn administration of all the aforesaid sacraments. I embrace and accept each and 

everything that has been defined and declared by the holy Synod of Trent 

concerning original sin and justification.

        I also profess that in the Mass there is offered to God a true, sacrifice

of propitiation for the living and the dead, and that in the most holy sacrament 

of the Eucharist there is truly, really, and substantially present the body and 

blood together with the soul and the divinity of our Lord Jesus Christ, and 

that there takes place conversion of the whole substance of bread into body, 

and of the whole substance of the wine into the blood; and this conversion 

the Catholic Church calls transubstantiation. I also acknowledge that under 

one species alone the whole and entire Christ and the true sacrament are taken.

         I steadfastly hold that a purgatory exists, and that the souls there 

detained are aided by the prayers of the faithful; likewise that the saints 

reigning together with Christ should be venerated and invoked, and that 

they offer prayers to God for us, and that their relics should be venerated.

I firmly assert that the images of Christ and of the Mother of God ever Virgin, 

and also of the other saints should be kept and retained, and that due honor 

and veneration should be paid to them; I also affirm that the power of indulgences has been left in the Church by Christ, and that the use of them is especially 

salutary for the Christian people.

         I acknowledge the holy Catholic and apostolic Roman Church as the

mother and teacher of all churches; and to the Roman Pontiff, the successor 

of the blessed Peter, chief of the Apostles and vicar of Jesus Christ,

I promise and swear true obedience. Also all other things taught, defined, 

and declared by the sacred canons and ecumenical Councils, and especially 

by the sacred and holy Synod of Trent, (and by ecumenical Council of the 

Vatican, particularly concerning the primacy of the Roman Pontiff and his 

infallible teaching)*, I without hesitation accept and profess; and at the same 

time all things contrary thereto, and whatever heresies have been condemned, and  rejected, and anathematized by the Church, I likewise condemn, reject, and  anathematize. This true Catholic faith, outside of which no one can be saved, 

(and) which of my own accord I now profess and truly hold, I, N., do promise, vow, 

and swear that I will, with the help of God, most faithfully retain and profess the 

same to the last breath of life as pure and inviolable, and that I will take care as far 

as lies in my power that it be held, taught, and preached by my subjects of by 

those over whom by virtue of my office I have charge, so help me God, and these 

holy Gospels of God. 

* What is included in the parenthesis is now to be added from Descr. S.C. Conc. 

(Jan.20, 1877), [ASS I0 (1877)].

Reference:

This translation was made from the thirtieth edition of Enchiridion Symbolorum, by Henry Denzinger, revised by Karl Rahner, S.J., published in 1954, by Herder & Co., Freiburg