Tradition vs. tradition .. difference

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what is the difference between Tradition and tradition? can you give example of some catholic Tradition and catholic tradition.

tradition vs Tradition with capital “T”
 
Tradition can never change. “Jesus is Lord” is a statement of Catholic Tradition. All Catholic doctrine is Tradition (and “doctrine” is really the same thing as “Tradition”). So the Sacaiments, the Communion of Saints, the Trinity - that’s all Tradition.

tradition can change. For example, priests cannot marry - that is tradition (albeit a very old tradition), and could change tomorrow if the Magesterium wanted. Other traditions: Church architecture, liturgical vestments and colors, use of candles, bells, music, etc. Canon Law is largely filled with tradition (and can, and does, change).
 
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Tradition can never change. “Jesus is Lord” is a statement of Catholic Tradition. All Catholic doctrine is Tradition (and “doctrine” is really the same thing as “Tradition”). So the Sacaiments, the Communion of Saints, the Trinity - that’s all Tradition.

tradition can change. For example, priests cannot marry - that is tradition (albeit a very old tradition), and could change tomorrow if the Magesterium wanted. Other traditions: Church architecture, liturgical vestments and colors, use of candles, bells, music, etc. Canon Law is largely filled with tradition (and can, and does, change).
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(t) tradition is under the authority of the Church. i.e. not eating meat during fridays of the year used to be a regulatoin of the Church. It was a (t) tradition for a long time. Now it is for the Friday’s of lent. Saying the Mass in latin was a (t)tradition. It was changable by the legitmate authorities. Tradition is only expounded and not changed. It is something that the Church has always believed and makes what is implicit in scripture explicit.
 
The best treatment I’ve seen done of this very thing is on the following link:
catholic.com/thisrock/1991/9112chap.asp

Examples (‘T’):
  1. Jesus was true God and true man, hypostatically joined
  2. Eucharist is the body, blood, soul, and divinity of Christ
  3. God is Trinity
  4. Priests must be men
    Examples (‘t’):
  5. Latin rite priests must be celebate
  6. Receiving the Eucharist in your hand (which I hate, by the way)
  7. Genuflecting on your right knee, only
  8. At the end of the Gospel reading saying, “Praise to you Lord Jesus Christ”
'T’raditions can never be changed - 't’raditions can be changed at a moments notice (but wouldn’t be, without reason).

God bless!
RyanL
 
viktor aleksndr:
what is the difference between Tradition and tradition? can you give example of some catholic Tradition and catholic tradition.

tradition vs Tradition with capital “T”
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I wrote an article on this very topic for the Pacific Voice, the Catholic weekly newspaper here in the Archdiocese of Agana (Guam USA). Check it out at cegguam.org/pacvoice/CapitalTTime.htm
or as a tri-fold tract in PDF format at cegguam.org/tracts/SacredTradition.pdf

Hope it helps.
 
Does it mean that all the content in the Cathechism of the Catholic Church is a Tradition or the Dogma?
 
viktor aleksndr:
Does it mean that all the content in the Cathechism of the Catholic Church is a Tradition or the Dogma?
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It’s both. It contains regulations like confessing sins once a year and the requirement to attend mast on feast days of the Church, and much more which are t. Primaily though it is dogma based on the councils. It quotes the fathers and refers to scripture quite extensively to support the teachings.
 
viktor aleksndr:
Does it mean that all the content in the Cathechism of the Catholic Church is a Tradition or the Dogma?
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Tradition (T) is the same thing as dogma (though Catholics don’t often use the term “dogma”). The Catechism (“teaching”) contains both Tradition and tradition (since it is important for good Catholics to know about both).
 
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