Episode 285 - The Garment of Skin

He was a man without guile — transparent, true, already half-turned toward glory. And yet even he bore the skin of death, like Adam after the fall. In the icon, he stands holding it: his own flesh, flayed and offered, not in defeat but in exchange — the garment of mortality for the robe of divine light.

We are all clothed thus, for now. But through daily dying, we too may become what he became: a witness, a martyr, a friend of God. This skin will not last. It is not our shame but our passage. What if death, for us as for him, is not an end but a bright and terrifying door?