We Don’t Know The Way

St. Thomas The Apostle

St. Thomas is often mischaracterized as “Thomas the unbeliever,” but his experience of doubt regarding Jesus’ resurrection is crucial. It is through his final confession “My Lord and my God”, we too believe and confess that Jesus is God. St. Thomas’ experience can relate to our own doubts and recognize the significant presence of Jesus in our lives. St. Thomas’ experience resonates with our own struggles to believe, even after we have been repeatedly exposed to Scripture readings and reflections. Doubt does not deny faith; rather, it strengthens faith, but this can only happen if we do not stop drawing close to Jesus in the Eucharist.  There, in each breaking of the bread, we can place our fingers with humility and simplicity saying, “Jesus, we do not know the way,” because He is the only way that leads us to truth and to life.  Like St. Thomas, our unbelief is gone forever, his faith and ours have always triumphed in the joyful expression “My Lord and my God.”  As Saint Paul says in his Letter to the Ephesians, with Jesus we are no longer strangers or pilgrims, but members of the family of God (cf. Eph 2:19a).