When beginning his commentary on the Gospel fo St. John Aquinas first shows that it is important to first understand how the intellect comes to form a word within itself. First he shows the two operations of the intellect: one which composes and divides; the other, which understands indivisibles. He then goes on to show how the word formed by the intellect in a rational creature is different from the WORD which is God in the mind of the Eternal Father-the Only-Begotten Son.

In a sense we mirror in our understanding what we understand our word to be and extrapolate of thru proportional analogy come to some faint understanding of what the WORD which contains all reality is.

IP CRL

'NOT ONLY TAHT , WE EVEN BOAST OF OUR AFFLICTIONS...'

If we are attentive we will catch the Spirit who moment by moment recreates us; gives us existence, enfolds us in the Divine forebearance thru the Mercy poured out on the Cross, and is our ADVOCATE AND CONSOLER along the 'WAY, THE TRUTH, AND THE LIFE, ' which is Christ.

He unites us with teh WORD who is from teh Beginning [Jn. 1:1] He unites us in the Heart of Love that is His Sacred Heart; He gives us freedom of the children of God. IP CRL