At the end of each prayer, we say "Amen," but what does this word "amen" mean? Amen means "so be it" or "it is so," from the original Hebrew word meaning "truth" or "certainty." Jesus Christ also uses the term to begin a statement of religious teaching as in "Amen, Amen, I say to you . . ." When we say amen at the end of a prayer it is an affirmation of "I believe." By saying "I believe" at the end of the prayer, we mean two things: 1) I believe what I said was true. 2) I believe in God, who hea