Please prove that what the Catholic Church today calls tradition is the same as what the apostles referred to as tradition.
“... what the Catholic Church today calls tradition is the same as what the apostles referred to as tradition...”
The Catholic Church is apostolic and there is no distinction at all between the apostles’ tradition and the Church’s traditions. They are one and the same and have been handed down intact since before the New Testament was even written.
For example - the breaking of the bread referred to in 1 Corinthians 11, 23 that St. Paul is referring to is the mass. The Corinthians knew this because it had been handed down as Paul had orally taught them when he first converted them in 52 AD. Most of them could not read, remember!
It is the exact same TRADITION (the liturgy of the eucharist) for breaking the bread that St. Paul is referring to.
The Corinthians already knew this because St. Paul had taught them the ritual when he first came among them BEFORE he wrote it down. Our mass is the very same because it has continued exactly as the Corinthian “breaking of the bread” ritual, without ever ceasing. It is the same breaking of the bread that St. Paul gave orally to the Corinthians.
The traditions are alluded to in scripture and everyone accepted them since the very beginning. (Not the traditions of men, the sacred traditions).