The words of the Creed are, without a doubt, those that have resonated most deeply and with the greatest hope in the hearts of the saints of the Church, both in the time of its beginnings and during the 20th and 21st centuries. Love for the Church and the people has always inspired the saints and confessors in the struggle to defend civilization and the Christian faith. It is perhaps difficult to understand the exact deep meaning of these words in an era characterized by a general coldness and indifference towards ecclesiastical institutions. Written at a time when the crisis of the Church seemed to be reaching its climax, they proved to be guiding and instructive, both for the Christians of the first centuries, but also later, for those in the tumultuous period of the 20th century and the completely unsettled and ambiguous period of the 21st century. Considered a great spiritual power against both the expansion of the pagan world, but also of the totalitarian communist or other oppressive one, the Church opposed with all its strength the currents denigrating human dignity and those directed against the faith, the decisive center of its struggle moving from the temporal society within the timeless spiritual society. The Holy Church, thus, became the center of the spiritual struggle against any oppressive or ideologically deficient totalitarian system. In the face of these tensions generated by the attempts to annihilate the truth and to accommodate with the cultural and ideological tendencies of a supposedly liberating modernity, the only divine landmarks remain the saints, of whom the Church has never lacked, whether we refer to the martyrs of the pagan period or of dictatorships of any kind, or to the confessors of the labor camps, to the missionaries, to the penniless doctors, to the theologians, to the very patient priests and to the very praying monks for the peace of the world. The saints are those who permanently illuminate the path, and those in other Christian denominations have testified through their lives to God’s love for people, all united in the path of His commandments, awaiting with hope His Second Coming.
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