Sunday Reflections

By Fr Charles Anthonyswamy

“Seeing to believe” or “believing to see”?

Second Sunday of Easter (Divine Mercy Sunday) - Cycle A - 16 April 2023

Acts 2:42-47, 1 Peter 1:3-9, John 20:19-31

Doubting Thomas, the skeptical disciple, the incredulous friend, the unbelieving apostle: these are some of the ‘not so merciful’ adjectives that we usually employ this Sunday of Divine Mercy to describe Thomas. On the other hand, Richard Dawkins, who is a staunch atheist, has a very different proposal: