Another important witness is the record of the life and practice of the Church as it professed its faith through creeds like the Apostles' Creed and expressed it in prayer and particularly in the liturgy which is the prayer of official public worship. This same tradition causes the Sacred Scriptures to be more deeply understood and their power more effectively exercised in the Church today. Thus God continues to speak to His People. In this way, the Holy Spirit speaks to the Church and through the Church to the world, calling all to belief in Christ who is the way, the truth and the life of God. There is, therefore, a close relationship between sacred tradition and Sacred Scripture.
Tradition includes Scripture.
Scripture is that part of God's word which He inspired the human authors to put into writing. Both sacred tradition and Sacred Scripture flow from the same well-spring of God revealing His truth to men. Together, tradition and Scripture provide for the preservation of that revelation in all its integrity. Thus the term, God's word, means the whole of God's revelation and not simply what has been written down in the Sacred Scriptures. Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit entrusted the word of God in its full purity to the Apostles.