אָמֵן
Amen
ah-MEN or ay-MEN
The Hebrew word of assent that ends every prayer and creed, meaning “so be it, it is true”; Jesus used it to begin his most solemn sayings, and Scripture calls him “the Amen.”
truly; so be it; it is firm
Amen comes from the same Hebrew root as the word for faith and expresses solidity, trustworthiness, truth. To say it is to make a prayer one's own. Jesus, uniquely, put it at the start of his teaching — “Amen, amen, I say to you” — to mark the authority of what followed, and Revelation names him “the Amen, the faithful and true witness.” The Catechism closes its long commentary on the Creed with it: to say “Amen” at the end of the Creed is to say “I believe” again. At Communion the “Amen” is the communicant's act of faith in the Real Presence.
Sources checked 29 September 2026