{"id":24773,"date":"2009-07-03T05:45:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-03T09:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/07\/saint-thomas\/"},"modified":"2009-07-03T05:45:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-03T09:45:00","slug":"saint-thomas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/07\/saint-thomas\/","title":{"rendered":"Saint Thomas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Because thou has seen Me, Thomas, thou has believed. Blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed, alleluia.<\/i><\/p>\n<div><i><br \/><\/i><\/p>\n<div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><i><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/St%20Thomas%20PPRubens.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"St Thomas PPRubens.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/assets_c\/2009\/07\/St Thomas PPRubens-thumb-400x227.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"227\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0 auto 20px;\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/i><\/div>\n<div>Grant us, we beseech Thee, O Lord, to glory in the solemn festival of Thy blessed Apostle Thomas; may his patronage ever help us, and may we at all times imitate his faith with suitable devotion.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Pope Benedict&#8217;s 2006 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vatican.va\/holy_father\/benedict_xvi\/audiences\/2006\/documents\/hf_ben-xvi_aud_20060927_en.html\">catechesis on Saint Thomas<\/a> is quite illustrative of true faith through the example of the Apostle.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Are we free enough to follow Christ in the same manner as the Apostle Thomas? Do we adhere closely to Christ in all ways &#8211;holding nothing back&#8211;so has to truly say that Christ is <span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">the<\/span> way, <span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">the<\/span> truth and <span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">the<\/span> life? What makes us insecure in our following Christ? Does uncertainty paralyze us in being a true Christian? Why?<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><b>Blessed are those who do not see and yet believe.<\/b><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because thou has seen Me, Thomas, thou has believed. Blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed, alleluia. Grant us, we beseech Thee, O Lord, to glory in the solemn festival of Thy blessed Apostle Thomas; may his patronage ever help us, and may we at all times imitate his faith with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/07\/saint-thomas\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Saint Thomas<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1710,2138],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24773"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24773\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}