TOP n.43 My Only Begotten Son the Word

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TERTIUS ORDO PENITENTIAE LETTER Nº 43

07/29/25TERTIUS ORDO PENITENTIAE LETTER Nº 43: 10

their acts are uniquely spiritual acts; they know and they love; they do nothing else: to know one another and to love one another.

07/29/25TERTIUS ORDO PENITENTIAE LETTER Nº 43: 12

Distinct does not mean different. The more a being is, the more it is distinct from all others. A distinguished man is one who is not confused with any other; he possesses the same humanity, but he possesses it in his own way. The Father and the Son possess the same divinity, the same infinite being, but they do not possess it in the same way. One gives it without receiving it; the other receives it and gives it. The Father begets; the Son is begotten. This is what distinguishes Them. And what unites Them is this : They are united in this being They mutually give each other: it is the infinite Being… and there can be only one infinite being. They are united in this infinite unity. “The Word was God,” because the Father is God and as the Father is God. “Et Deus erat Verbum.”

07/29/25TERTIUS ORDO PENITENTIAE LETTER Nº 43: 13

Our linear minds are at first disconcerted by this. We think that to advance is to go from one point to another… and that is true when the starting point is nothingness or indigence. But when the starting point is Being itself, development can only occur within It, through a communication of Its being accepted more and more.

07/29/25TERTIUS ORDO PENITENTIAE LETTER Nº 43: 14

Dom Guillerand, Chartreux, AU SEUIL DE L'ABIME DE DIEU : ELEVATIONS SUR L'EVANGILE DE SAINT JEAN.