He is adored and glorified

The direct translation of this phrase from the Greek is, “Together with the Father, He is worshiped and glorified.”

In the Creed, “Who” refers to the Holy Spirit, the third Person of the Trinity. “With the Father and the Son” indicates that the Holy Spirit is not separate or inferior, but shares the same divine nature as the Father and the Son. The word “with” emphasizes the unity and equality of the three divine Persons.

“Is adored and glorified” shows that the Holy Spirit is the proper object of worship, just as the Father and the Son are. In Christian theology, worship belongs to God alone.

Therefore, if the Holy Spirit is to be adored and glorified together with the Father and the Son, He must truly be God.

In this profession of faith, the Creed solemnly declares the divinity of the Holy Spirit, affirming Him as the third Person of the Most Holy Trinity, consubstantial, coequal, and coeternal with the Father and the Son, who is rightly adored and glorified together with them.

The early church thought so and even preserved prayers to the Holy Spirit from the fourth century until today. The Eastern Orthodox, Roman Catholic, and most mainline Protestant denominations still use hymns and prayers to the Holy Spirit.

Macedonianism, a 4th-century heresy denied the full personhood and divinity of the Holy Spirit. According to this heresy, the Holy Spirit was created by the Son and was thus subordinate to the Father and the Son. The Creed defines the Holy Spirit as God and hence ‘With the Father and the Son he is adored and glorified.’

To the Samaritan lady Jesus said, “God is Spirit, and those who worship him must worship in Spirit and truth.” Worship is a definite act of the creature in relation to God. To deny worship to the Holy Spirit is to deny His deity. 

Hence believers ought to, will, and do adore and glorify the Holy Spirit as co-equal with the Father and Son.

Worship means “adoration” of God which can be expressed in many different ways: through prayer, sacrifice, solitude, and penance.

The main idea in adoration is that man recognizes his creaturehood and therefore his total dependence on almighty God.

Before I begin my prayers, I always invoke the Holy Spirit to come into me, to pray within me, and to enable me to pray without distraction, in union with the Holy Trinity.

During the Holy Mass, whenever I say, “Father, we ask this through our Lord Jesus Christ, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, for ever and ever,” I renew in a special way my profession of faith in the third Person of the Most Holy Trinity.