[Mrs. Don-o]

You evidently missed the post, up-thread, where I explained to Elsie just what this "Sacred Tradition" consists of:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/3275781/posts?page=331#331

The most important part of "Sacred Tradition" would be

• the Bible, and most especially, the canon of the Bible.

We all depend on the canon of the Bible, and we all can thank God for providing that the Church, through Sacred Tradition, would preserve it through the centuries. It would have been lost, as the vast majority of ancient manuscripts of all sorts were lost, unless it were handed on (which is what "tradition" means: to hand on, tra - ducere.)

The other very important parts of Sacred Tradition would be

• the first links of the Apostolic Succession,

• the basic forms of the Apostolic Hierarchy,

• the basic forms of the Seven Sacraments,

• the basic form of the Sacred Liturgy, and

• the teachings of the Magisterium which the contain and communicate the truths of faith and morals God intended to make known for mankind's salvation.

You call this "...none, nein, nada, zero, not one, zip, nil, zilch" when actually it's as plain as the nose on your face, and has not been shrouded in silence at all. There are libraries of scholarly books tracing the ancient origins of all these elements of Sacred Tradition.

None of these things are hidden, secret or esoteric. They are all in writing; they are all in the lived customs, heritage and legacy of living communities of Faith which have been out there "for all to see" since the first and second centuries AD.

Have you followed any of the investigations of Christian archaeology?

[Iscool]

We all depend on the canon of the Bible, and we all can thank God for providing that the Church, through Sacred Tradition, would preserve it through the centuries.

Passing the scriptures from one generation to the next is not tradition...Besides, there are two lines of bibles that come down thru history...One Catholic and the other is not Catholic...

It would have been lost, as the vast majority of ancient manuscripts of all sorts were lost, unless it were handed on (which is what "tradition" means: to hand on, tra - ducere.)

But we also know that THAT tradition of passing along the written scriptures is not what the Catholic religion refers to when it speaks of Tradition...

The other very important parts of Sacred Tradition would be the first links of the Apostolic Succession,
the basic forms of the Apostolic Hierarchy,
the basic forms of the Seven Sacraments,
the basic form of the Sacred Liturgy, and
the teachings of the Magisterium which the contain and communicate the truths of faith and morals God intended to make known for mankind's salvation.

Naw...Lumping Catholic tradition with scripture and calling both Sacred Tradition is not at all accurate...

You call this "...none, nein, nada, zero, not one, zip, nil, zilch" when actually it's as plain as the nose on your face, and has not been shrouded in silence at all. There are libraries of scholarly books tracing the ancient origins of all these elements of Sacred Tradition.

And yet you can't provide a single one that goes back to the Apostles...(I don't believe the authors of the gospels counts as Catholic tradition)...