PRAYER MOMENT
Thursday
3 July 2014, St Thomas
MY LORD AND MY GOD
Pause. Be there
when Thomas meets Jesus.
Reading: “Doubt
no longer but believe.” Thomas replied, “My Lord and my God!” Jesus said to
him, “You believe because you can see me. Blessed are those who have not seen
and yet believe.” (John 20:24-29)
Reflection. John,
in his gospel, has many themes and one of them is the journey to faith. We see
it in the woman by the well (Chap. 4) and again in the man born blind (Chap.9).
And here we have the journey of Thomas, a fairly sceptical character, (John
11:16). This is our journey too. A recently appointed bishop in Ireland (McKeown
of Derry) said people “see the church as a series of things you do but in many
cases there was no deep personal commitment to the faith.” Perhaps this is true
not just of Ireland but of Zimbabwe. We see our faith as “things you do” rather
than a deep relationship with a Person. Thomas had to discover it the hard way.
It is unlikely there is any other way. Our journey of faith is a deep personal
search for the One who, all the time, dwells within us.
Prayer. Lord
Jesus, you revealed yourself to Thomas and he was deeply moved. Help us to on
our journey to come to a deep faith in you. Amen.
David Harold-Barry SJ
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