{"id":108762,"date":"2024-07-03T07:30:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-03T14:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/?p=108762"},"modified":"2024-07-02T13:52:15","modified_gmt":"2024-07-02T20:52:15","slug":"saint-thomas-apostle-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/saint-thomas-apostle-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"My Lord and My God"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

H<\/span>appy feast of Saint Thomas <\/a>the Apostle! Today wasn’t always his feast<\/a>. In fact in my Monastic Diurnal<\/a>, today is the Memorial of Saints Processus and Martinian<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

His main feast was celebrated for centuries on 21 December, the day when tradition has it he was run though by spears, wielded by soldiers of a Greek-descended Indo-Parthian Satrap named Mazdai in western India.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He was apparently upset with Thomas for converting his wife and children. Some things never change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’m sure the holy martyrs Processus and Martinian will forgive me if I choose to celebrate the Apostle today, since he is my name saint.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I thought today I’d share with you part of a homily on the Gospels by Saint Gregory the Great, which may be found in today’s Office of Readings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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T<\/span>homas, one of the twelve, called the Twin, was not with them when Jesus came.<\/em> He was the only disciple absent; on his return he heard what had happened but refused to believe it. The Lord came a second time; he offered his side for the disbelieving disciple to touch, held out his hands, and showing the scars of his wounds, healed the wound of his disbelief.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n

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Dearly beloved, what do you see in these events? Do you really believe that it was by chance that this chosen disciple was absent, then came and heard, heard and doubted, doubted and touched, touched and believed? It was not by chance but in God\u2019s providence. In a marvellous way God\u2019s mercy arranged that the disbelieving disciple, in touching the wounds of his master\u2019s body, should heal our wounds of disbelief. The disbelief of Thomas has done more for our faith than the faith of the other disciples. As he touches Christ and is won over to belief, every doubt is cast aside and our faith is strengthened. So the disciple who doubted, then felt Christ\u2019s wounds, becomes a witness to the reality of the resurrection.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Touching Christ, he cried out: My Lord and my God. Jesus said to him: Because you have seen me, Thomas, you have believed. Paul said: Faith is the guarantee of things hoped for, the evidence of things unseen. It is clear, then, that faith is the proof of what can not be seen. What is seen gives knowledge, not faith. When Thomas saw and touched, why was he told: You have believed because you have seen me? Because what he saw and what he believed were different things. God cannot be seen by mortal man. Thomas saw a human being, whom he acknowledged to be God, and said: My Lord and my God. Seeing, he believed; looking at one who was true man, he cried out that this was God, the God he could not see.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

What follows is reason for great joy: Blessed are those who have not seen and have believed. There is here a particular reference to ourselves; we hold in our hearts one we have not seen in the flesh. We are included in these words, but only if we follow up our faith with good works. The true believer practices what he believes. But of those who pay only lip service to faith, Paul has this to say: They profess to know God, but they deny him in their works. Therefore James says: Faith without works is dead.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n

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“The Incredulity of St Thomas” by Caravaggio<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n
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G<\/span>rant, almighty God,<\/em>
that we may glory in the Feast
of the blessed Apostle Thomas,
so that we may always be sustained by his intercession
and, believing, may have life
in the name of Jesus Christ your Son,
whom Thomas acknowledged as the Lord.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
one God, for ever and ever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Amen.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Happy feast of Saint Thomas the Apostle! Today wasn’t always his feast. In fact in my Monastic Diurnal, today is the Memorial of Saints Processus and Martinian. His main feast was celebrated for centuries on 21 December, the day when tradition has it he was run though by spears, wielded by soldiers of a Greek-descended Indo-Parthian Satrap named Mazdai in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":593,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[46,15,19,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-annual","category-meditations","category-pray","category-saint"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Caravaggio_-_The_Incredulity_of_Saint_Thomas.jpg?fit=798%2C588&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1aGBK-sie","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":87422,"url":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/thomas\/","url_meta":{"origin":108762,"position":0},"title":"Thomas","author":"Thom","date":"03 July 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Happy feast of Saint Thomas the Apostle! 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