Apostolic Tradition

PART ONE: THE PROFESSION OF FAITH

Section One: "I Believe"- "We Believe"

Chapter Two: God Comes to Meet Man

Article 2: THE TRANSMISSION OF DIVINE REVELATION

This is not any “tradition” we are speaking of, but the sacred Tradition
(with a capital ‘T’) given by Christ to the Apostles and thus to His Church. 
This Tradition is unlike any other in existence because it is made alive by God.

1. The Apostolic Tradition

God has a desire for us to come to the truth through Jesus Christ. God had preached the gospel through his apostles in two ways: orally and in writing. The spoken words preached by the apostles have come to life through the Holy Spirit. The apostles also committed the message of salvation to writing. 

The full and living Gospel is preserved in the Church by the apostles leaving bishops as their successors (teaching authority). Tradition is the living transmission, which is accomplished through the Holy Spirit- yet, is different from the Sacred Scripture. Proof of this living Tradition is seeing through the holy Fathers as they showed its riches pouring out practice into life to the Church. 

God's self-communication made through his Word in the Holy Spirit is present and active in the church... "And the Holy Spirit, through whom the living voice of the Gospel rings out in the Church- and through her in the world- leads believers to the full truth, and makes the Word of Christ dwell in them in all its richness."

Comment: The Apostolic tradition comes to life through the apostles, and even more so through God's son Jesus Christ. The Gospel has been written as God communicates to us, made possible through the Holy Spirit so that his voice can  reign through this Earth and reachable to all believers.