Reflections

“You are my Lord and my God.”This gospel passage demon- strates an ‘unparalleled expres- sion of faith’ that began with disbelief and doubt (Bredan Byrne). We have here another in- stance revealing Jesus identity. Two things are made clear in this gospel reading:  one  explicitly declares that Jesus is God and the other implicitly admits that God is love.Thomas confesses that Jesus is God. But before this personal pronouncement (the use of “my”), Thomas named the con- ditions that might lead him to believe, namely: he wanted to see the print of the nails, and put his fingers in the marks and in Jesus’ side. Is it merely the sight and touch of the marks on Jesus’ hands, or the sight of Jesus him- self, that moved him to believe? It could probably be the profound realization of the power and greatness of God’s love embo- died in Jesus; it could be the ex- perience of such love at that very moment of touching  the  mark of nails and the side of Jesus, a love that is able to send Jesus for the whole world and that is able to accept and face a gruesome death on the cross.  The  touch on the marks of nails and side of Jesus is an experience of the pure and unconditional love of God.
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