text from this living context. In this sense, Scripture and Tradition form an inseparable whole.”10 Tradition, then, is a sort of ongoing divine intervention in history, an act of God that gives every succeeding generation the same contact with the risen Christ experienced by the first disciples. This experience, a true and personal encounter with the saving presence of Christ, forms the “content” of the Church’s Tradition. And bringing about this encounter constitutes the mission of the Church.