Saint Thomas

My Lord and My God: Saint Thomas the Apostle (John 20:19-29)

Thomas’s story does not end in the locked room with “I will never believe.” Christ comes to him, and the story ends with worship: “My Lord and my God.” That is where the Gospel is taking Thomas, and it is where the Gospel is taking us.

Saint Thomas the Apostle: An Anglican Perspective

That makes Thomas particularly fitting in Advent not because doubt is the essence of Christian waiting but because faith lives by the Word of God while awaiting sight. Thomas saw and believed; the Church receives his testimony and hears Christ’s blessing upon those who have not seen and yet believe.