The Word of God precedes the Bible and surpasses it. That is why the center of our faith isnt just a book, but above all a person, Jesus Christ, the Word of God made flesh. It is precisely because Gods Word embraces and extends beyond Scripture that, in order to properly understand it, the Holy Spirits constant presence, who guides us to all truth, is necessary. It is necessary to place ourselves within the great Tradition that has, with the Holy Spirits assistance and the Magisteriums guidance, recognized the canonical writings as the Word that God addresses to his people, who have never ceased meditating upon it and discovering inexhaustible riches from it. In fact, Sacred Scripture is the Word of God in that it is written down under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit. Sacred Tradition transmits the Word of God in its entirety, entrusted by Christ the Lord and by the Holy Spirit to the Apostles and their successors, so that these, enlightened by the Spirit of truth, might faithfully preserve it with their preaching, might expound and propound it. Pope Francis.
Posted on: Thu, 03 Jul 2014 08:04:24 +0000