“The Paschal Mystery”

John 10:25

The works of Christ (his suffering, death, resurrection, and ascension) are at the center of the creed we confess each week. For our salvation “he suffered, he was was buried, he rose again, and he he ascended.” In the creed we are not professing an idea that we simply agree to. These are not things we merely believe. We are proclaiming a truth, a mystery that we participate in. As Paul writes in Romans 6:4, “We were buried … with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.”