What is the connection between the Creed and the Lord’s Prayer?

We can see a common denominator in the worship of the Coptic Church: the recital of the Lord’s Prayer and the Creed in all our liturgies, including those of baptism, eucharist, engagement, matrimony, and funeral prayers, as well in private prayers, such as the Canonical Hours (Agpeya). So what is the connection between them?

In all our communal and private prayers, we are concerned with preparing ourselves for the second coming of our Lord Christ and accompanying Him to heaven, being His joyous bride united with her heavenly Groom. Through the Lord’s Prayer, we lift our hearts to the heavenly Father in the spirit of joy through that prayer which the Groom Himself taught us, the only-begotten Son incarnate; for it is truly where the joy of the Holy Trinity abides, when offered from the heart with a heavenly mind and unfeigned, undeviating faith. This is also the role of the Creed when we recite it in a spirit of prayer. The aim of both the Lord’s Prayer and the Creed is to help us become the bride whose heart is always lifted up in prayer, holding fast to her unfeigned, undeviating faith. This mindset which never leaves us — whether at church or at home or even at work or among friends — can be attained by the child, the youth … and all the way into old age. As the apostle says, “For you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus” (Gal. 3:26).