which have been handed down ...

through the contemplation and study made by believers ...

through the intimate understanding of spiritual things ...

through the preaching of those who have received through

episcopal succession the sure gift of truth.

Words of the holy Fathers witness to the living presence

of this tradition;

Through the same tradition the Church's full canon of

the sacred books is known;

and the sacred writing themselves are more profoundly

understood and increasingly made known in her.