Sunday, May 12 (April 29), 2024
Sunday of St. Thomas
Acts 5:12-20; Jn. 20:19-31                                               

“My Lord and my God!” ─ cries the holy apostle Thomas [Jn. 20:28].  Do you sense how firmly he has clasped the Lord?  how strongly he is holding on to Him? ─ just like someone drowning in the sea holding on to a piece of wood, his only hope for survival.  It should be noticed that anyone who does not see the Lord and himself this way does not yet properly believe in the Lord.

We say “Lord the Savior”, meaning that He is the Savior of all, while St. Thomas says “My Lord and Savior”.  When I say “My Savior”, I feel that my own salvation is coming directly from Him.  This sense of salvation is in fact akin to that of perdition from which I am delivered by the Savior.

We abhor perdition and cling to life by our very nature; realizing that we are completely helpless to save ourselves, we reach out for the Savior.  When we find Him and sense the power of salvation coming from Him, we take hold of Him and wouldn’t let Him go, even to the death.  It is not enough to learn or imagine how it happens: it has to be actually experienced in life.  Only then our faith and our personal connection with the Lord become strong as life and death, and only then we could cry out in earnest: “Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?”  [Ro. 8:35]

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