Beyond Customary Arrogance
"‘When you are invited by someone to a wedding banquet, do not recline at table in the place of honor.’"
Saints Sergius and Bacchus Chapel
Palm Springs, California
"‘When you are invited by someone to a wedding banquet, do not recline at table in the place of honor.’"
"‘Strive to enter through the narrow gate.’"
"‘Do you think that I have come to establish peace on the earth? No, I tell you, but rather division.’"
"‘Blessed are those servants whom the master finds vigilant on his arrival.’"
"'You fool, this night your life will be demanded of you.'"
"'Lord, teach us to pray as John taught his disciples.'"
"’Mary has chosen the better part and it will not be taken from her.’"
"’And who is my neighbor?’"
“At that time the Lord appointed seventy-two others whom he sent ahead of him in pairs to every town and place he intended to visit.”
“But he replied, ‘Lord, let me go first and bury my father.’ But he answered him, ‘Let the dead bury their dead. But you, go and proclaim the kingdom of God.’”
“For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the death of the Lord until he comes.”
“’Everything that the Father has is mine; for this reason I told you that he will take from what is mine and declare it to you..’”
“’Receive the Holy Spirit. Whose sins you forgive are forgiven them, and whose sins you retain are retained.’”
“As he blessed them he parted from them and was taken up to heaven.”
“’I made known to them your name and I will make it known, that the love with which you loved me may be in them and I in them.’”
“I give you a new commandment: love one another.”
“’My sheep hear my voice; I know them, and they follow me.’”
“So the disciple whom Jesus loved said to Peter, ‘It is the Lord.’”
So, Thomas gets criticized for his skepticism. That criticism isn’t restricted to Thomas. It extends to anyone who doubts or questions matters of faith. The critics believe that anyone who questions their beliefs is lacking in faith and therefore not a “good” Christian.
Our personhood will arise and transcend the grave. Like Jesus, we, too will leave behind our image—a testimony of our love and compassion, the relics of our resurrection.