Statement of Belief of the Celtic Catholic Church, Diocese of St. Brendan

We confess the revelation of God in and through His Son, Jesus Christ, and are a Church consecrated to the task of spreading the importance of that revelation to all the world.

We believe in the Trinity -- one God in Three Persons -- God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. We further hold that Jesus Christ, the second Person in the Trinity, is God and yet Man: that He was incarnated in the womb of the Virgin Mary: that he was crucified, and that He "ascended into Heaven."

He left as his ever-present witness in the world the Holy Spirit, whom we hold is the voice of God speaking in scripture, history, and in our individual souls. Where two or three are gathered together in Christ's Name, there is He in the midst.

We further believe in His eternal witness, and that the Church is an essential part of the Spirit's revelation. It is to this end that we are further dedicated to the unification of that Holy, Catholic (universal), and Apostolic Church, and to pledge ourselves to the struggle to follow and understand the historical traditions throughout all branches of Christ's Church. We trust, as did the ancient Celtic Catholic Church, that the Holy Spirit will lead us in this.

We offer ourselves as a Church home to all who confess and believe in Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior, regardless of their state of grace; and we would not exclude anyone from our fellowship, for we are committed to the principle that all are the children of God and that "while we were yet sinners Christ died for us." Saint or sinner, we would exclude none from the joyful response in which we embrace the gifts of the Holy Spirit and the life to which we are called. We witness to Christ who lives and loves; therefore, we are free to commit ourselves to each other, and to live and love.

The Celtic Catholic Church historically embraces the traditional seven Sacraments (Baptism, Confirmation, Communion, Reconciliation, Matrimony, Holy Orders, Anointing of the Sick). All are prescribed by the Holy Scriptures and confirmed by God's continual revelation. All are obligatory on professing Christians and communicants in this Church, as far as is appropriate to their state in life and calling from God, but none are to be considered conditions for Salvation. Faith in Christ is all that man needs for his soul's salvation.

In the spirit of historic Catholic and ecumenical concord we hold that all worship done in the Name of Christ and in the presence of the Holy Spirit is acceptable to Him.