The Faith of Our Fathers

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n knowledge, in power, in goodness, and in every other perfection; who c

rsons,-the Father, the Son, and the Holy Gh

the Father, begotten before time; and He is Man of the substance of His Mother, born in time."5 Out of love for us, and in order to rescue us from the miseries entailed upon us by the disobedience

ommenced [pg 002] His public career. He associated with Him a number of men who are na

, hearing to the deaf, healing all kinds of diseases, raising the d

sively bears the titles of Savior and Redeemer, because "there is no other name under heaven given to men whereby we m

fixion of our flesh, and by acts of daily mortification. "If anyone," He says, "wi

prompted by filial tenderness to commemorate the anniversary of their father's death rather by prayer and fasting than by feasting. Even so we abstain on Fridays from flesh meat that we may in a small measure testify our prac

r sanctuaries. We venerate it as the emblem of our salvation. "Far be it from me," says the Apostle, "to glory save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ."

ntury of the Christian era, says: "In all our actions, when we come in or go out, when we dress, when we wash, at our meals, before retiring to sleep, ... we form on our foreheads the sign of the cross. These practices are not commanded by

ing Himself to life, and that having spent forty days on earth, after His resurre

together in prayer. [pg 004] The Holy Ghost purified their hearts from sin, and imparted to them a full knowledge of those doctrines of salvation which they were instr

pel to every creature,"13 and directing all, under the most severe penalties, to hear and obey them: "He that heare

s Church certain shining marks, by which every sincere inquirer could easily recognize her as His only Spouse. The principal marks or characteristics of the tr

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