Hi, my name is Father Mike Schmitz, and you're listening to the Catechism in a Year podcast,

where we encounter God's plan of sheer goodness for us, revealed in the scripture, and passed down to the tradition of the Catholic faith.

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In 365 days, we will read through the Catechism of the Catholic Church, discovering our identity in God's family as we journey together toward our heavenly home. This is Day 11. You guys, I can begin. I want to let you know some things. First is I'm using the Ascension edition of the Catechism, which includes the Foundations of Faith approach. You can follow along with that one or with any recent version of the catechism at the Catholic Church. That would be just great. To download your own catechism in your reading plan, visit ascensionpress.com slash CIY. Also, you can follow or subscribe by clicking on those words, I guess, in your podcast app for daily notifications. Okay, here's why I'm so excited. It is day 11. We're reading paragraphs 80 through 87 today. I mentioned this yesterday on day 10. I was like, you know, it seems like we're getting hard to get some traction here. Today, well, yesterday was pretty awesome. I don't know. When we started talking about how here is the apostolic tradition that handed down, you know, orally and in writing,

we gave us divine revelation. It's just so good. Sacred scripture and sacred tradition. Today,

we're going to hear even more about the relationship between tradition, sacred tradition,

and sacred scripture. And it's just, oh my gosh, you guys, one of the things that people

will oftentimes get mistaken, be mistaken about, be mistaken about is we think, oh my gosh, you guys, one of the things that people will oftentimes get mistaken,

be mistaken about, be mistaken about is we think, oh, so the Bible, that's divine revelation.

And you say, yeah, yeah, it is.

But it's not the only divine revelation that we have sacred scripture.

Definitely.

We heard about that yesterday.

The apostles wrote down, apostles or the people connected

with the apostles wrote things down but also divine revelation involves sacred tradition as well

because there was an oral tradition that also was a deposit of the faith right because not even at the end

of john's gospel it says not not everything Jesus said or did was

written down in this book. If it were, there would not be enough books in the world to be able to

capture everything at Jesus had said or done. And so what do we have? We have sacred tradition

as well as sacred scripture. In fact, the only reason we have sacred scripture is because of

sacred tradition. We'll get to that before the end of this episode, hopefully. But before that, let's just look at this reality.

There's one common source. Sacred tradition and sacred scripture flow from the one source

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