{"id":221,"date":"2010-04-11T21:57:12","date_gmt":"2010-04-11T21:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/svetisimeon.org\/en\/?p=221"},"modified":"2010-04-12T01:41:56","modified_gmt":"2010-04-12T01:41:56","slug":"thomas%e2%80%99-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/svetisimeon.org\/en\/?p=221","title":{"rendered":"Thomas\u2019 Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/svetisimeon.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/tomina_nedelja.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-222\" title=\"tomina_nedelja\" src=\"http:\/\/svetisimeon.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/tomina_nedelja-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>[Acts 5:12\u201320; John   20:19\u201331]<\/p>\n<p><em>My Lord and my God!<\/em> (John 20:28)   cried the holy apostle Thomas. Do you feel the strength   with which he has grasped the Lord, and how tightly he is   holding onto Him? A drowning man grasps the plank on which   he hopes to be saved in the same way. We will add that   whoever does not have the Lord like this for himself and   does not keep himself this way in relation to the Lord,   does not yet believe in the Lord as he should. We say:   \u201cSaviour and Lord,\u201d meaning that He is the   Saviour of all; but Thomas says: \u201cmy Saviour and   Lord.\u201d He who says: \u201cmy Saviour,\u201d feels   his own salvation proceeding from Him. The feeling of   salvation lies adjacent to the feeling of perishing, out   of which the Saviour pulls whomever He saves. The feeling   of perishing, for a man who is life-loving by nature and   who knows that he cannot save himself, forces him to seek   the Saviour. When he finds Him and feels the power of   salvation proceeding from Him, he grasps Him tightly and   does not want to be torn from Him, though he be deprived   for this of life itself. Such a nature of events in the   spiritual life of a Christian are not only imagined in the   mind, but are experienced in deed. Then, both his faith   and his union with Christ become firm, like life and   death. Only such a person can sincerely cry: <em>Who shall   separate me!<\/em> (cf. Rom. 8:35).<\/p>\n<p>(source: Thoughts for Each Day of the Year by St. Theophan the Recluse)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Acts 5:12\u201320; John 20:19\u201331] My Lord and my God! (John 20:28) cried the holy apostle Thomas. Do you feel the strength with which he has grasped the Lord, and how tightly he is holding onto Him? A drowning man grasps the plank on which he hopes to be saved in the same way. We will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-holy-fathers-wisdom"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/svetisimeon.org\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/svetisimeon.org\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/svetisimeon.org\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/svetisimeon.org\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/svetisimeon.org\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=221"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/svetisimeon.org\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":225,"href":"https:\/\/svetisimeon.org\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions\/225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/svetisimeon.org\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/svetisimeon.org\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/svetisimeon.org\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}