H “Within Orthodoxy—writes John Breck—the relationship between word and sacrament is one of essential unity grounded in silence.”36 Divine speech may be termed “sacramental,” because it has a dynamic, creative quality. God speaks “out of silence.”37 The final creative act of God’s speaking to the world out of his silence is the work of the incarnate Son of God. Paul calls this act a “mysterion,” a “sacrament” hidden in God before all time, but now revealed and accomplished in the person of the divine