Quote/s of the Day – 3 July – Feast of St Thomas Apostle – Readings: Ephesians 2: 19-22, Psalms 117: 1bc, 2, John 20: 24-29
Jesus said to him,
“Have you come to believe because you have seen me?
Blessed are those who have not seen and have believed.”
John 20:28-29
“For by your doubting,
I am taught to believe,
by your forked-tongue,
that revealed the Wound
on the Divine Body that was pierced,
I harvest the fruit for myself, without pain!”
St John Chrysostom (347-407)
Father and Doctor
“I believe
though I do not comprehend
and I hold by faith,
what I cannot grasp
with the mind.”
St Bernard (1090-1153)
Mellifluous Doctor
“To one who has faith,
no explanation is necessary.
To one without faith,
no explanation is possible.”
“Believing is
an act of the intellect
assenting to the divine truth,
by command of the will,
moved by God through grace.”