Thomas, fingers, wounds

[Magnum_V8]

Did Thomas stick his fingers into Christ’s wounds? Or was simply seeing Him enough for Thomas to confess, “My Lord and my God?”

 

[Caesar]

Most depictions of the event show St. Thomas placing his fingers in the wounds. This seems to be a long-standing tradition.

 

[NMJenny]

The Scriptures don’t say whether or not Thomas actually put his fingers in the wounds of Christ.

So I suppose we are free to think about it either way–for myself, I prefer to think his glorious acclamation of faith came without the need for physical manifestations…

 

[Magnum_V8]

The Scriptures don’t say whether or not Thomas actually put his fingers in the wounds of Christ.

So I suppose we are free to think about it either way–for myself, I prefer to think his glorious acclamation of faith came without the need for physical manifestations…

That’s what I prefer to think, too. Also, Jesus does say to Thomas, “Because thou hast seen me, Thomas, thou hast believed.” I didn’t know if we were to take that literally.

 

[John_Hiner]

The Scriptures don’t say whether or not Thomas actually put his fingers in the wounds of Christ.

So I suppose we are free to think about it either way–for myself, I prefer to think his glorious acclamation of faith came without the need for physical manifestations…

Laudatur Iesus Christus.

I assume the opposite, namely that Thomas obeyed Christ when ordered to probe the wounds. This has the effect of making Thomas a physical witness to the facts of the resurrection, making his testimony crucial in the same way that physical evidence is important in every forensic proof. This is the final bit of evidence offered by John “that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God: and that believing, you may have life in his name.” (John 20:31)

The physical nature of the Resurrection is an important part of the proof of Christ’s authority. Jesus offered this sort of proof in His eating with the Apostles as well as in directing the understandably skeptical Thomas to test the physical facts.

The truth of the Faith is an objective fact.

Spiritus Sapientiae nobiscum.

John Hiner

 

[dailymass]

It seems to me that I read somewhere that the hand of St. Thomas is venerated in Rome - the hand that touched the wounds of Jesus. Has anyone else heard that? Any pictures available?

 

[tee_eff_em]

It seems to me that I read somewhere that the hand of St. Thomas is venerated in Rome - the hand that touched the wounds of Jesus. Has anyone else heard that? Any pictures available?

Indeed. Among the relics venerated at Santa Croce in Gerusalemme in Rome are the finger bones of St Thomas. When I viewed the holy relics, I thought it an odd inclusion among the instruments of the passion, but on consideration it makes a sort of sense.


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[love4mary]

John Hiner,

Wonderful observation concerning St. Thomas. I never thought of this scene in this way, but it makes perfect sense:thumbsup: