Sacred Tradition

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Can anyone provide several examples of Sacred Tradition which is the other half of Sacred Bible? As Catholics we are to believe in both not only the Bible by itself.
 
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Can anyone provide several examples of Sacred Tradition which is the other half of Sacred Bible? As Catholics we are to believe in both not only the Bible by itself.
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The Eccumenical Councils are a good start.
 
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Can anyone provide several examples of Sacred Tradition which is the other half of Sacred Bible? As Catholics we are to believe in both not only the Bible by itself.
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The writings of the Church Fathers.
 
In one of his epistles, St. Paul exhorts the Christians to hold fast to the Tradition they received from the Apostles. Remember, the Church didn’t spring forth from the Bible, it’s the other way around. The Gospels were written at least 20-30 years after Christ’s Resurrection. Thus, what the Apostles did was to orally hand down the teachings. Remember, too, that St. John concludes his Gospel account that not everything that Jesus did and said is written. The whole world could not contain those books.
 
The doctrine of the Holy Trinity, the definition of Chalcedon that Jesus is one ontological subject with two natures, the doctrine of Our Lady being Theotokos- the God bearer.

All these things are implicit in the faith of the Church and are defined or brought out at the Councils.
 
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