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We probably have experienced this before in our faith journey: we have a time of strong faith followed by a time of deep doubt in God. One moment we are filled with faith and courage in following the Lord Jesus Christ. The next moment we find ourselves filled with doubts and insecurities, easily succumbing to […]
by bcadmin | Jul 5, 2021 | Apostles, Best of Week, Doubting Thomas, Featured, News, Saints, Sophia Excerpts, St. Thomas | 0 |
Modern readers tend to see the Gospel through a filter of tradition. We see individual characters as we have been trained to see them: as the sum of the sermons preached about them. The text may present them as complex, with a variety of competing virtues and failings, but our mental shorthand reduces them to […]
by bcadmin | Apr 13, 2021 | Doubting Thomas, Faith & Spirituality, Faith Under Fire, Featured, News, Sophia Excerpts, St. Thomas | 0 |
Doubting Thomas & Our Lessons in Faith Poor St. Thomas! What he expected with trepidation on the journey to Jerusalem has come to pass. The Master has been killed, and he and the other disciples have retreated in fear for their own lives. For his part, Thomas withdraws also from the company of his fellow […]
by bcadmin | Apr 9, 2021 | Catholic Hotdish, Doubting Thomas, Easter season, Holy Week/Easter, News | 0 |
Length. The Easter Season is fifty days, not forty days, like Lent, or four weeks or slightly less, like Advent. The Easter Season extends from Easter Sunday to Pentecost. It is sometimes known as the “Festival of Weeks,” seven weeks of seven days (49 days), plus one, the fiftieth day, Pentecost.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 3, 2020 | Doubting Thomas, Featured, News, Saints, St. Thomas | 0 |
Poor St. Thomas the Apostle. For much of the history of Christianity, he has been affiliated with one word: doubt. A “doubting Thomas,” says Wikipedia, “is a skeptic who refuses to believe without direct personal experience—a reference to the Apostle Thomas.” Some Christians have even used the moniker to defend doubt as a kind of […]
by bcadmin | Jul 3, 2020 | apostle, Between the Sundays, doubt, Doubting Thomas, Faith, Featured, friendship with God, Living the Faith, Mercy, News, Prayer, profession of faith, Resurrection, Spiritual Life, St. Thomas, St. Thomas the Apostle | 0 |
“God is patient with our questions, our weakness, and our struggles, just as he was patient with Thomas.” It is tradition that St. Thomas was the only Apostle to leave the Roman Empire to preach the Gospel, traveling to Syria and Persia and then to Ind…
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