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Believing-Deepen Your Understanding

Scripture and Tradition

We find the true faith in Sacred Scripture and in the living Tradition of the Church.  Scripture and Tradition belong together.  Handing on the faith does not occur primarily through documents.  In the early Church it was said that Sacred Scripture was "written on the heart of the Church rather than on parchment”.  (YOUCAT 12)

 

Sacred Scripture is the speech of God as it is put down in writing under the same breath of the Holy Spirit.  And Tradition transmits in its entirety the Word of God which has been entrusted to the apostles by Christ the Lord and the Holy Spirit.  It transmits it to the successors of the apostles so that, enlightened by the Spirit of truth, they may faithfully preserve, expound and spread it abroad by their preaching.  (CCC 81) 

Scripture and Tradition

The Creed

Trinity 

God does not just look on as man gradually destroys himself and the world around him through the chain reaction of sin.  He sends us Jesus Christ, the Saviour and Redeemer, who snatches us from the power of sin. (YOUCAT 70)

We believe in only one God because, according to the testimony of Sacred Scripture, there is only one God, and according to the laws of logic, there can only be one.  (YOUCAT 30)

Without the Holy Spirit we cannot know Jesus.  In his life the presence of God’s Spirit, whom we call the Holy Spirit, was manifest in a unique way. (YOUCAT 114)

Creeds are brief formulas of faith that make it possible for all believers to make a common profession.  (YOUCAT 26)

“And so the Creed is divided into three parts: ‘the first part speaks of the first divine Person and the wonderful work of creation; the next speaks of the second divine Person and the mystery of his redemption of men; the final part speaks of the third Person, the origin and source of our sanctification.”  These are “the three chapters of our (baptismal) seal.” (CCC 190)

Marks of the Church

WE BELIEVE IN ONE HOLY CATHOLIC AND APOSTOLIC CHURCH

What are the Marks of the Church?

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