Every year, on the second Sunday of Easter, Thomas takes us by the hand and accompanies us in the experience of the recognition of the Risen One, introducing us into faith in him. In the IV Gospel Thomas is called Didymus, a term that can mean “twin” and that we can also understand in the sense that it looks a lot like us. His doubts of faith, his fatigue, his claims, his unwilling acceptance of the witness of the community and even before Mary of Magdala often characterize our journey of faith. At the same time, we too, like him, experience the mercy with which the Lord comes to meet us, even complies with our claims, then corrects them. In his love he knows us and transforms us, giving us to live in the bliss of faith. As St. Peter says, we love him even without having seen him and now, without seeing him, we believe in him. There are signs that are offered to our research: the Word, the broken bread, the community to which we return to unite, the wounds that remain in the body of the Risen One and that we must now recognize and treat in the wounds of an afflicted humanity. Then, as the passage from the Acts announces, there is the sign that we ourselves must become: a community which in its communion is a credible sign of the new life given by the Risen One.

Commentary by Comunità di Dumenza

Translation by f. Mark Hargreaves, Prinknash Abbey