Saint Thomas Sunday

Believe!

St. Thomas’s refusal in his pain and sorrow to accept his fellow apostle’s words, really speaks to the great depth of love that he has for his Lord. He didn’t want a second-hand experience; he wasn’t content to just hear from others that Christ had returned, he wanted a real and living relationship with Christ.

We are told “but these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in His name.” This is the lesson, this is the point, this is the end game and the most important reason that we read the scriptures. That we may believe that Jesus Christ is who He says He is – the Son of God – and that because we believe and know that He is truly the Son of God, we have salvation and can live in peace, light, love, joy and wonder; and ourselves become the children of God, fulfilling our destiny and becoming that which we were created to be.

Like Saint Thomas, we also need to have a real connection with Christ. We can not make it very far in our walk of faith if we base it on simply trusting our parents or culture, or on anyone or anything else other than Christ and His Church. We need to base our trust, our faith on a real and living relationship with Christ Himself.

Encountering Christ, Thomas’s doubt is transformed into belief, and he proclaims that which we must all have resonating in our hearts, “My Lord and my God.” Christ then speaks to Thomas, and through him to every generation that will follow, “Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.” That is us my brothers and sisters!

– from our April 2025 newsletter