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    Mo Nguyen
     
    Sat, Apr 18 at 5:32 AM
     
     

    SECOND SUNDAY OF EASTER – YEAR A           19 APRIL 2020

                      

     

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            Blessed are those who have not seen 

                           and yet believe  

                        REFLECTIONS ON THE GOSPEL (John 20: 19 – 31)

                               STILL BEARING THE WOUND OF LOVE

    Thomas is one of the most clearly defined characters in the Gospels. Born loser, realist, pessimist, he has missed out on the Easter night appearance of Jesus. He won’t believe that Jesus has been raised simply on the other disciples’ claim: ‘We have seen Lord’. He insists on seeing, touching, hearing for himself.

    Eight days later, with divine ‘courtesy’, Jesus meets Thomas’ conditions exactly. But, at the sight of his risen Lord, Thomas abandons these conditions, He, the late-comer, the obtuse one, goes on to make the most exalted act of faith contained in the gospel: ‘My Lord and my God!’ It is Thomas, the hesitant, the doubter, who brings out the full identity of Jesus.

    Moreover, Thomas’ demand to see and touch the wounds shows that the risen Lord continues to bear these badges of vulnerable love. Presumably that is why Pope John Paul II chose this Second Sunday: Jesus is someone to whom we can go and find understanding and mercy in a divine degree.

    Jesus adds a comment that brings us into the picture too: ‘Blessed are those who have not seen and yet believe’. Succeeding generations of believers will not have the privilege of seeing the risen Lord. We have to believe simply the testimony handed down in the Church: ‘We have seen the Lord’. We are not at a disadvantage. We are in fact ‘blessed’ because from us a faith greater than that of Thomas’ will be drawn. And it is faith that lets God’s power into the world.

    Brendan Byrne, SJ

     

    #798.1- Jesus Appears To Thomas - (John 20:19-29):

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIuIjas6NGw

     

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