Today’s readings take speech very seriously. They assume that there is a correspondence or that there ought to be a correspondence between what the mouth speaks and what’s in the heart. I noted yesterday that speech, even in some ancient versions of the Book of Sirach, is one of the things that makes us like God. God speaks, and so do we.
In God, of course, there is a perfect correspondence between heart, between His interior life as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, and His speech. God, we believe, in His infinite eternity has one perennial, perfect, constant thought that satisfies and fulfills his infinite mind: His own self-image, His own perfect Idea. That Idea is His only-begotten Son.
