Jesus is the GATE
The earliest known icon of Jesus So Jesus said again, “Amen, amen, I say to you, I am the gate for the sheep. All who came before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not listen to them. I am the gate. Whoever enters through me will be saved, and will come in and go out and find pasture. A thief comes only to steal and slaughter and destroy; I came so that they might have life and have it more abundantly.” Jesus is the gate. When you receive the grace of the Sacraments a different level of faith occurs; a trans-formative faith, a new sense of faith, the realism of the Kingdom of God grows from a willingness to learn about the many different aspects to faith; knowledge, understanding, piety, counsel, fortitude, fear of the Lord, wisdom.