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Christ is in our midst!!

I believe this is NO theological justification for adding to the Creed after its final version was made those many centuries ago. Let everyone modify it as he wills and we no longer have a common statement of what we believe today or how we are related to those who have gone before.

My father, no theologian, once told me that "a man is a success if he can face the Lord and confess that he received the Faith, lived it, and passed it along WITHOUT adding to it or subtracting from it."

BTW, the filioque is not the only addition of Charlemagne's theologians. "God from God" in the early sentences about Christ are also their work.

The Filioque was added to the Latin creed by the Third Council of Toledo led by Saint Leander in 589 in Spain, and was later adopted in Gaul during the reign of Saint Clovis and in Britain at the Council of Hatfield in 680 led by Saint Theodore. Personally, I believe that the best thing to do is for us Latins to pray as our Greek and Eastern brothers do, as we have received from our Doctors, without arguing over the other's usage.

Apparently the local Western Councils did not get the memo about the anathemas attached to the Creed so that anyone adding to it was excommunicated.