If [Jesus} had not come in the flesh, there would be no way in which men could be saved by beholding Him: for even when they look at the sun, the work of His hands and a thing destined to perish, are they able to gaze straight into its rays? For this reason, then, the Son of Man came in the flesh: to fill to the brim the measure of the sins of those who persecuted His prophets to death.

                                               Saint Barnabas

Deacon Joe 2024