Wednesday Ratzinblogging

Last week's audience on his anniversary --very sweet. And this week's audience on "Tradition" is great. Official summary here, but I'm going to try to find you a full translation. Ah. Find it at Zenit.

This permanent actualization of the active presence of the Lord Jesus in his people, realized by the Holy Spirit and expressed in the Church through the apostolic ministry and fraternal communion, is what is understood by the term Tradition in the theological sense: It is not the mere material transmission of what was given at the beginning to the apostles, but the efficacious presence of the Lord Jesus, crucified and risen, which accompanies and guides in the Spirit the community gathered by him.