St. Thomas
Appointed Lessons
Habakkuk 2:1-4 * Hebrews 10:35-11:1 * John 20:24-29 * Psalm 126
Scripture quotations labeled NRSV are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright 1989 by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA, and used by permission.
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Classic Texts
Gregory the Great: Witness to the Resurrection
“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’s wounds, becomes a witness to the reality of the resurrection.
Frederick W. Robertson: Faith in a Person
“It was not faith which assured Thomas that what stood before him was the Christ he had known; that was sight. But it was faith, which from the visible enabled him to pierce up to the truth invisible: ‘My Lord, and my God.’ And it was faith which enabled him through all life after, to venture everything on that conviction, and live for One who had died for him.”
Articles
Mac Stewart: Christmas Zeal
“We might think that being more zealous would be the obvious remedy for any kind of domestication of the gospel. The problem, though, is that our ostensible zeal for the Lord can easily become just another covert way of talking about ourselves.”
Christopher Yoder: ‘Advent Calendar’: On a Poem by Rowan Williams
“The multivalent imagery suggests at once the whole arc of Christ’s advent: his coming ‘to visit us in great humility’ and his coming ‘in his glorious majesty,’ as the Collect for the First Sunday of Advent puts it.”
