This six-part course on our baptismal Creed presents the content of the Faith in a unique way.  The Catechism of the Catholic Church tells us that ”There is an organic connection between our spiritual life and the dogmas. Dogmas are lights along the path of faith; they illuminate it and make it secure.”  (CCC 89)   Following this prompt from the Catechism, we will look at the 12 articles of the Apostles Creed (as well as those of the Nicene Creed) as the “path of faith” by which we make our return to God in heaven. And, because our Lord describes Himself in John 1:51 as the fulfillment of the vision of the Patriarch Jacob who had dreamed of “a ladder…set up on the earth with its top reaching to heaven” (Gen 28:12), in this course we will take as our “path of faith” this Ladder, which we will ascend by way of the twelve “rungs” of the Creed to our heavenly homeland.  In short, the primary lesson of this course is that the Faith we profess is best conceived of not simply as vital information (which it certainly is!) but as a divine means of transportation, and even of graced transformation by which we may follow our Lord, the “pioneer and perfector of our faith” (Heb 12:2), in His own ascent to the heavenly Father.