A lot of times you will hear Catholics talking about the written Word and the spoken Word and that usually means something different. Written Word usually means Sacred Scripture, the Bible. Spoken word usually means Sacred Tradition, the teachings of Christ handed down through the Apostles that aren’t explicitly in the Bible. The latter have all been written down somewhere, just not in the Bible explicitly. “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” (loose memory translation.
) Jesus is the Word and He has given Himself to us in three different ways. 1. The Written Word, the Bible. 2. The Spoken Word, the teaching of the Apostolic Church. 3. The Broken Word, Christ incarnation and very life among us, particularly in His sacrifice and redemptive work on the cross. None of these is better or worse than any of the others. They are all Jesus and His love for us and they are all infinitely good.
Pax et bonum