Commentary on Catechism of the Catholic Church The Relationship Between Tradition and Sacred Scripture
Sacred Tradition and Sacred Scripture communicate with each other and flow out of one common source that is God. They become one thing that is revelation, and move towards the same goal that is the salvation of mankind. Both Sacred Tradition and Scripture make present the mystery of Christ who promises us to be with us until the end of time. Sacred Scripture is the speech of God put down in writing under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit. While Tradition transmits in its entirety the Word of God entrusted to the apostles and their successors so enlightened by the Holy Spirit, they may faithfully preserve, expound, and spread it abroad by their preaching.
The Church does not
derive her certainty about all revealed truths from Sacred Scripture alone, rather
from Sacred Tradition as well. Both Scripture and Tradition must be accepted
and honored with equal sentiments of devotion and reverence. Now Sacred
Tradition and the various theological, disciplinary, liturgical, and devotional
traditions are truly distinct. While the former is of God, the latter are
expressions made by man of the Sacred Tradition, under which the Church may retain,
modify, or even abandon or reject those traditions if found to be incompatible
with the Word of God.
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