Can you imagine being Thomas and finding out that while you were gone from the Upper Room, the resurrected Jesus appeared to the other disciples? And then, according to the evangelist John, it was a full week later when Jesus returns to that room. If I were Thomas, I would probably be consumed with thoughts about how unfair the situation was – that I was being asked to believe without seeing while the other disciples were able to see the glorified Christ. And, of course, we don’t know how Thomas reacted, except that he demanded to see and touch the wounds of Christ.

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Today we celebrate the Lord’s resurrection, the pinnacle of the Church’s entire liturgical year. As disciples, we know that Christ’s resurrection is not something that happened to him alone; his resurrection offers us the promise that all who believe in him will one day rise with him. But the new life Christ promises is not something we have to wait for the next life to experience! Everything we have been doing throughout Lent to prepare for today’s celebration also gives us a foretaste of the fullness of life we will share with him at our own resurrection.

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