For older Catholics: In what era did we start praying aloud the Nicine Creed?

Question

I grew up in the thirties and I just don't remember this prayer till about in the sixties?

Answer 1

I am 'older', and a Filipino, and the Creed is recited in EVERY mass in the Philippines ... in fact, it is one of the UNCHANGEABLE parts of the mass!

The musical form called 'misa brevi' has the

1) Kyrie Eleison (Lord have mercy)
2) Sanctus Domino (Holy, holy, holy Lord)
3) Credo (I believe ...)
4) Gloria (Glory to God in the highest)
5) Agnus Dei (Lamb of God).

The Council of Nicea was in 325, which simply formalized what was believed by everyone at that time.

NOW, I have always been bothered by some 'modern' Catholic parishes in the US (I am assuming you are American), which skip the Credo most of the time; their reason being, that the credo are incorporated into the whole mass. As a result, the credo is rarely recited in its entirety.

I have heard some christian (you might call them born-again or fundamentalist) friends give the same reason as above.

As far as I am concerned, if you take away the Credo, then your mass is missing 1/5 of something. I never realized what was missing in the university parish I attended about a decade ago, until the THIRD week! It was then I realized that they were skipping the credo, something which SHOCKED a Presbyterian professor I spoke with! He found it unforgivable!

I say go to a more 'conservative' church.

Answer 2

If one looks at a history of Liturgetics, the Creed was said aloud as long as it has existed, at last among Orthodox Catholics.

Answer 3

about the 4th century.