St. Thomas The Apostle

The Biblical Easter Celebration

April 12, 2026By Servants Of The Holy Family

Low Sunday 2026
This week we are given the splendid examples of the saintly lives we should imitate in St. Hermenegild, Bl. Margaret of Castello, St. Justin Martyr, St. Benedict Joseph Labre, St. Magnus of Orkney, and St. Anicetus. We should familiarize ourselves with the details of their lives.

The Apostles were so overjoyed to see Christ risen that they began to wonder if their own excitement was causing them to imagine His presence. Our Lord asked for food, that He might prove His bodily resurrection. For St. Mary Magdalen, it was enough to hear her Lord’s voice, but St. Thomas had to put His hand into Our Lord’s side in order to believe.

We reject the so-called “New Synodal Church,” along with its false Divine Mercy devotion. The Divine Mercy image has no Sacred Heart and no wounds, and it was condemned by the pre-conciliar Church. We Catholics celebrate the biblical account of what Christ did on this day.
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The Removal of All Doubt

April 27, 2025By Servants Of The Holy Family

Low Sunday 2025
We must put out of our minds all distractions while we attend the Holy Mass, so that we may focus solely on the Son of God Who is sacrificing Himself before our very eyes. When God was creating the cosmos, He had the future sacrifice of His Son in mind. Everything the Son of God did was for love of His Father. God permitted the sinful doubt of St. Thomas the Apostle to assist in the fulfillment of His plan. We thank St. Thomas for his doubt because due to it, Our Lord proved His bodily resurrection and removed any doubt from our own hearts. If any man sincerely looks for the truth and prays to God to help him find it, God will surely give it to Him. Let us imitate the great saints and martyrs of the past in their desire for salvation and remove everything from our lives which stands between us and Heaven.
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Gospel Of Faith

April 11, 2021By Servants Of The Holy Family

Low Sunday 2021
The Easter Octave is completed today and our recently baptized neophytes put aside their baptismal garments and now begin the life as one of the faithful. This is particularly done by following Our Lord in the Liturgy in our prayers. The Paschal candle is Christ with us now and lights the way in appreciating His Resurrection. The Faith is all important and essential. Today’s Gospel teaches us how we must approach this gift with humility knowing we cannot achieve this by our own power. This theological virtue which has God as source and goal will lead us to heaven one day.
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Faith Overcomes The World

April 19, 2020By Servants Of The Holy Family

Low Sunday 2020
Today is called Low Sunday in comparison to the High Sunday of Easter last week. This Lent was our opportunity to tell God we are sorry for our sins and we resolve to continue having this sorrow throughout our lives. Faith is the center of our reality and source of our victory. We are like the apostles in today’s Gospel who receive the consoling words from the Risen Savior, “Peace be to you”. Repeat the indulgenced words of St. Thomas often, especially at the elevation, “My Lord and My God”. Live the life of God in our souls now through the Indwelling of the Blessed Trinity.
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Thank God For Gift Of Faith

April 28, 2019By Servants Of The Holy Family

Low Sunday 2019
The Epistle draws the comparison between the Persons of the Blessed Trinity and the witnesses left for us in the world: The Spirit, the water and the blood. The Gospel about doubting Thomas reminds us that we owe much more to St. Thomas for our Faith than to St. John who believed in the Resurrection so quickly. As we enter the chapel we should leave all worldly concerns behind and be grateful for the Faith that God has died to give us.
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Believe With Confidence

April 23, 2017By Servants Of The Holy Family

Low Sunday 2017

Low Sunday is the culmination of the eight-day celebration of the Feast of the Resurrection of Our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. The term Low is intended to indicate the contrast between it and the great Feast one week earlier of Easter Sunday, certainly the greatest of all liturgical feasts. The Octave Day of Easter is considered part of the feast, though to a lower degree. The entire celebration of Easter is meant to give us confidence that we too can one day share in the same Resurrection of the body if we hold fast to the Truths of Faith and the power of Grace over sin that Our Lord won for us. We must have confidence that our path is right and our goal can and will be achieved.

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The Three Give Testimony

April 7, 2013By Servants Of The Holy Family

Low Sunday 2013
This Sunday does not have the liturgical splendor of Easter, and it is in comparison to that feast that it is called Low Sunday. We made promises on Easter to love Christ and to put away the things of the devil. Although we do not know the true state of our souls, we should examine our spiritual life and ask ourselves if we have made any progress. The Gospel account of today is a truly exquisite example of God’s mercy. We are quick to judge the Apostles for their doubts, but how often do we struggle with doubts of our own? The sacrament of Penance was instituted on the evening of Easter Sunday. We see Christ in the Holy Eucharist, but we must still believe. We are told that St. Mary Magdalen was one of the first to see the risen Lord because, despite her sins, she remained faithful at the foot of the Cross. May we ever retain the effect of the Paschal mysteries in our lives.
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The Eyes of Faith

April 15, 2012By Servants Of The Holy Family

Low Sunday 2012
We should all pray for a happy death because we cannot merit it without asking for God’s grace in those last moments. We should also frequently ask that all the punishment due to our sins be removed on our deathbed by the reception of Extreme Unction. The Church has always taught that the priest can not only forgive sins but remove the punishment due to them.

This Mass is about faith, but we must remember that no saint has had great faith without great humility. It is only when we realize how much we need help that we ask God for help. We possess nothing good which we have given ourselves. Even faith is a gift from God for which we cannot take credit. Humility is the foundation, faith is the walls, and charity is the roof of the great structure God has built in us.
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