Every Second Sunday of Easter we celebrate “Divine Mercy Sunday” since Pope
St. John Paul II instituted it in the year 2000. The readings for this
Sunday is always the account of Jesus appearing to the Apostles behind
locked doors not once by twice and where Thomas doubts the Lord. Why did
Thomas doubt? Did he really not believe that the Lord has risen and would
need to see His wounds and touch His side in order to believe or was it a
gut reaction that was not really thought out? In the Gospels we read in
several places of Thomas’s inquisitiveness. For example, he asks Jesus
since they [the Apostles] did not know where He was going, how they could
know the way, to which Jesus responded “I am the way, the truth, and the
life” (cf. Jn 14:4-6). So sometimes our doubt may not really by an
expression of a lack of faith but maybe one of confusion. Regardless, Jesus
takes the time to listen and explain to Thomas, and He does the same for
us, if only we would take time to listen.
