The eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain to which Jesus had ordered them. When they saw him, they worshiped, but they doubted.Our pastor zeroed in on that word 'doubted'. A paraphrase: How could they be doubting after having spent so much time with Jesus and having seen him raised from the dead? And yet notice what Jesus says. He doesn't say "immediately purge those thoughts from your mind." He says to go out and tell the good news.
Then Jesus approached and said to them, “All power in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, until the end of the age.”
Doubt is a part of faith and has two effects: one, is it causes us to seek, to search, when we otherwise wouldn't. Searching is how faith deepens.
It also tells us that we should give what we have. No matter how little or much we have, we shouldn't hoard it.
Thursday's Eucharistic Adoration was in a room in the parish center for the first time and it was mesmerizing to see so close up the miracle of God pentetrating food and feel the hope it restores that He is with us despite our unworthiness. What peace there is kneeling before that calming monstrance containing God, with tiny little clips that held the Bread in place.
Later that eve I saw a bishop’s appeal in the mail in with the words “this is my Body, which is broken for you. Do this in remembrance of me” and it struck me that the “do this in remembrance” was not just the creation of Eucharists but to say to others, starting with my own family: “this is my body, which is broken for you”. Easier said than done but we certainly have a good example.
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