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Part1:The Profession of Faith (26 - 1065)
Section1:"I Believe" — "We Believe" (26 - 184)
Chapter2:God Comes to Meet Man (50 - 141)
Article2:The Transmission of Divine Revelation (74 -
100)
74 God "desires all men to be saved and to come to
the knowledge of the truth": that is, of Christ Jesus. Christ must be proclaimed
to all nations and individuals, so that this revelation may reach to the ends of
the earth:
God graciously arranged that the things he had
once revealed for the salvation of all peoples should remain in their entirety,
throughout the ages, and be transmitted to all generations.
I. THE APOSTOLIC TRADITION
75 "Christ the Lord, in whom the entire Revelation
of the most high God is summed up, commanded the apostles to preach the Gospel,
which had been promised beforehand by the prophets, and which he fulfilled in
his own person and promulgated with his own lips. In preaching the Gospel, they
were to communicate the gifts of God to all men. This Gospel was to be the
source of all saving truth and moral discipline."
78 This living transmission, accomplished in the
Holy Spirit, is called Tradition, since it is distinct from Sacred Scripture,
though closely connected to it. Through Tradition, "the Church, in her doctrine,
life and worship, perpetuates and transmits to every generation all that she
herself is, all that she believes." "The sayings of the holy Fathers are a
witness to the life-giving presence of this Tradition, showing how its riches
are poured out in the practice and life of the Church, in her belief and her
prayer."
79 The Father's self-communication made through
his Word in the Holy Spirit, remains present and active in the Church: "God, who
spoke in the past, continues to converse with the Spouse of his beloved Son. 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."
In the apostolic preaching...
76 In keeping with the Lord's command, the Gospel
was handed on in two ways:
- orally "by the apostles who handed on, by the spoken word of their
preaching, by the example they gave, by the institutions they established, what
they themselves had received — whether from the lips of Christ, from his way of
life and his works, or whether they had learned it at the prompting of the Holy
Spirit";
- in writing "by those apostles and other men associated with the
apostles who, under the inspiration of the same Holy Spirit, committed the
message of salvation to writing".
... continued in apostolic
succession
77 "In order
that the full and living Gospel might always be preserved in the Church the
apostles left bishops as their successors. They gave them their own position of
teaching authority." Indeed, "the apostolic preaching, which is expressed in a
special way in the inspired books, was to be preserved in a continuous line of
succession until the end of time."
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