Divine
Mercy Sunday “Let us also go to die with Him!”
As I was reading the Gospel this year for the 5th
Sunday of Lent…I noticed something I had never notice before… that Gospel about
Jesus raising Lazarus from the dead had a line I would like to read today…and
it is this…
“The disciples said to him, “Rabbi, the
Jews were just trying to stone you, and you want to go BACK to Bethany??? But Thomas, called Didymus, said to his
fellow disciples, “Let us also go to die with him.”
Fast forward to today’s Gospel, we see this same Thomas called
Didymus who doubts the Resurrection until he can see Jesus for himself.
What is the main takeaway from this…The Apostle Thomas showed
tremendous courage while Jesus was alive the first time…but later St. Thomas
flees from Jesus in the Garden…St. Thomas doubts in today’s Gospel…and after
Pentecost he goes to India and evangelizes…and is eventually martyred there.
To distill this down to an even finer point…some of us say we
are ready to die for the Lord…abandon Him at some point in our life…doubt Him
at other times…but, if we stay close to Christ and His Church then God will
always welcome us home no matter how far we have strayed…and God might even
call us to actually give up our life for Christ.
The words at the bottom of the Divine Mercy image are as critical
to our life today as they ever have been…we need to be like St. Thomas who said
at some point in his life and meant it for the rest of his life - “Jesus, I
trust in you!”
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