What Thomas saw (Easter 2)
In the first part of the service, we are hearing the Godly Play story "the Faces of Easter" you can watch a version here John 20: 19-31 is then the reading. The reflection follows Today’s gospel reading is from the gospel of John. John himself tells us he is not writing ‘everything Jesus did’, but telling us about the signs – helping us all to understand who Jesus is. Thomas gets labelled ‘doubting’ because of this moment, in the week after Easter Sunday. He was not there when the other disciples first see the risen Jesus. But he had seen and heard so many of the signs of who Jesus way. And in then end that helped him to make sense of the fact that the risen Jesus was now standing in front of him, on this first Sunday after Easter. We have heard the Godly Play story “Faces of Easter” reminding us of the whole of Jesus’ life: Birth – his family. Thomas would have known Mary, Jesus’ mo...