From Fr. Clarke's sermon yesterday:

"What God has done in Jesus Christ is to destroy the logic of revenge, the symmetry of getting even.  The wounds he bears, the wounds we gave him, in his hands and in his feet - these Wounds are his Glory.  It is the Shekinah of God, the glory of Jesus, that these wounds are unavenged, that rather than send a thousand legions of angels to requite the Death of a Son (which you and I would do yesterday), God accepted our rage and hate against himself, against his Beloved, and loves us within these wounds, because of them.

The Glory of God, this merciful loving-kindness, becomes a clear and shining Truth to Thomas:  that in these wounded hands and feet and side, in these wounds received without reprisal; in this pain taken and born; in this Death freely accepted; in this Forgiveness Incarnate before him - somehow Thomas is standing in the Presence of Something Radiant, Something Holy, Something Divine.  They are the very Keys of Death and Hades:  all earthly logic is so much straw, and God's Logic is standing before him in the Flesh of his Teacher and Friend.

Small wonder, then, that the iron bands fell from his heart, that faithlessness fled, and that the eternal confession springs to his lips:  My Lord and My God!"

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