“The Word of God is not fossilized, but a living and organic reality.”
In this week’s Wednesday audience, Pope Leo XIV continues his catechesis on ‘Dei Verbum,’ reflecting on the relationship between Sacred Scripture and Tradition.
Sacred Scripture, the inspired word of God, and Sacred Tradition, the living memory of the Church, are intimately bound together, flowing from the same divine wellspring, and forming one sacred Deposit of Faith. So interwoven are they that one cannot stand without the other—together, each in its own way and under the action of the Holy Spirit, they contribute to the salvation of souls.
“The Word of God, then, is not fossilized, but rather it is a living and organic reality that develops and grows in Tradition. Thanks to the Holy Spirit, Tradition understands it in the richness of its truth and embodies it in the shifting coordinates of history.”
