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If you are alone in your journey and looking for a church home, I hope you will fill out the information to the right and reach out to us. If you do, someone will respond to you, likely the bishop who is closest to your area, and will invite you to journey with us. 

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You would put on this flesh?

You’re not a very smart god, are you?

Do you not know its battered and tattered state?

Do you not know how I long to be free from its shame?

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I fashioned this flesh to bear the glory of my great name.

Though sin has killed and chilled it, sealing its fate,

And death has from Love’s life barred it,

I have gladly put on this flesh.

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You would put on this flesh?

For a god you are rather odd, aren’t you?

It is restricting and afflicting, unfitting your fame.

You are divine, why waste your time in our lowly frame?

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I fashioned your flesh, now I abide it without reserve.

It is my handiwork, and now it is my rework

To show what still lurks beneath its scars.

This flesh shall again be glorious.

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You would put on this flesh?

Maybe all along I have figured you wrong.

Maybe I’m the clown whose judgment isn’t sound,

And you see great dignity where disgrace only have I found.

 

United to me, this flesh will be limiting for only a little while,

But with a smile then a trial I will go the extra mile,

That humanity may beam with my eternal glory.

Yes, I have gladly clothed myself in flesh.

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And because Christ, in consideration of our fallen condition, took our flesh to himself, great things have come to the race of men. St. John Chrysostom concludes one of his Nativity sermons with this invitation: “Come, then, let us observe the Feast. Truly wondrous is the whole chronicle of the Nativity. For this day we begin to see slavery ended, the devil confounded, the demons put to flight, the power of death broken, paradise unlocked, the curse taken away, sin removed from us, error driven out, truth brought back. A heavenly life is implanted on the earth, drawing us up to the glories of heaven, where men now hold speech with angels.” All of this is made possible this day as God’s handiwork is manifested for what it was truly meant to be, the bearer of divine Life. Let us rejoice in His great love! Christ is Born! Glorify Him!

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