{"id":5145,"date":"2020-07-03T13:21:14","date_gmt":"2020-07-03T13:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/?p=5145"},"modified":"2020-07-03T13:21:14","modified_gmt":"2020-07-03T13:21:14","slug":"feast-of-st-thomas-the-apostle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/index.php\/2020\/07\/03\/feast-of-st-thomas-the-apostle\/","title":{"rendered":"Feast of St Thomas the Apostle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5147\" src=\"http:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/106477189_3048366835260219_1709961123278716877_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>Today is the feast of St Thomas the Apostle, &#8216;doubting Thomas&#8217;, as he is sometimes called, because of the incident in John&#8217;s gospel after the resurrection of Jesus (John 20) when he says he won&#8217;t believe that the Lord has risen until he can see and touch his wounds. A week later he&#8217;s able to see the risen Christ and exclaims &#8216;My Lord and my God!&#8217; As we often experience doubts in our own lives or even in our faith, he&#8217;s often a source of strength and reassurance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">He doesn&#8217;t reappear in the New Testament but traditionally he&#8217;s thought to have taken the gospel to India: here is his tomb in Kerala, with which I am sure some of you are familiar. A good day to pray for the people of India and the Christian minority <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-5146\" src=\"http:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/106781398_3048356378594598_4548115614801550251_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"304\" \/>there at these very difficult times.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">God bless and take care<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><em>Fr Ashley<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\">From our Facebook page&#8230;<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/St-Edmunds-Church-Beckenham-773012899462302\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5062\" src=\"http:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Join-Us-On-Facebook1-300x72.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is the feast of St Thomas the Apostle, &#8216;doubting Thomas&#8217;, as he is sometimes called, because of the incident in John&#8217;s gospel after the resurrection of Jesus (John 20) when he says he won&#8217;t believe that the Lord has risen until he can see and touch his wounds. A week later he&#8217;s able to see the risen Christ and exclaims &#8216;My Lord and my God!&#8217; As we often experience doubts in our own lives or even in our faith, he&#8217;s often a source of strength and reassurance. He doesn&#8217;t reappear in the New Testament but traditionally he&#8217;s thought to have taken the gospel to India: here is his tomb in Kerala, with which I am sure some of you are familiar. A good day to pray for the people of India and the Christian minority there at these very difficult times. God bless and take care Fr Ashley From our Facebook page&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5145"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5149,"href":"https:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5145\/revisions\/5149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}