A Week with Doubting Thomas

A Word from Our Outpost: Faithful Formation for Catholic Missionary Disciples

The famous atheistic/Nietzchean cry that God is dead, and we killed him, is lived liturgically from Good Friday to Easter Sunday. But from Easter Sunday to Divine Mercy Sunday, we can live liturgically through a strange period of agnosticism alongside Thomas the Apostle.

While we'd love to say that arguments for the divinity of Christ and the historicity of the Resurrection are airtight, and definitely convincing, the reality is that Thomas the Apostle had all of the basic arguments before him-- ten apostles witnessing, two disciples with all of the arguments from the Old Testament, an empty tomb, and no reason for anyone to have faked it-- and none of the arguments, nor the accumulated force of all of them, swayed Thomas. If that's not worth sitting with for a bit, then this episode definitely isn't worth listening to or sharing. (On the other hand, if it is worth sitting with for a bit, it may be worth listening to this episode and worth sharing it...)

Oh, and we didn't bring this up on the episode, but Joseph once wrote an entire retreat on the Holy Spirit based around the events of Good Friday through the martyrdom of Stephen. It never got a chance to be piloted, as COVID happened, and then it got covered in dust, but that's a thing we might put on sometime, if there's interest...

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