So the first Sunday after Easter, or more specifically the first Sunday after the Resurrection is called Low Sunday by the Roman Catholics and St. Thomas Sunday by the Eastern Orthodox. It is the day where the “Doubting Thomas” passages are read about how Thomas sticks his hands in Jesus’ wounds before he would believe in the Resurrection.

It can be understood in the opening paragraphs of the Gospel of Thomas in the Nag Hammadi, that Thomas is the twin of Jesus, and is representative of the reader and that we ourselves are the twin of Jesus too. With that in mind, and with the stories of Doubting Thomas at hand, we can focus on the understanding that questioning is the beginning of wisdom. Don’t just take it on faith but go and see, feel, know and come to knowledge through experience.

It is also a time when we step into the role of Christ that Jesus has just shown us how to do, by dying to the material and resurrecting to the Spirit. It is the beginning of another cycle of life where we show those around us and ourselves, that dying to the material did not harm us, and that resurrecting in Spirit as made us more.

Jesus said: I took my stand in the midst of the world and in flesh I appeared to them; I found them all drunk, I found none among them athirst. And my soul was afflicted for the sons of men, because they are blind in their heart and do not see that empty they have come into the world and that empty they seek to go out of the world again. But now they are drunk. When they have shaken off their wine, then will they repent. Jesus said: If the flesh has come into existence because of the spirit, it is a marvel; but if the spirit has come into existence because of the body, it is a marvel of marvels. But I marvel at how this great wealth has made its home in this poverty.
- Gospel of Thomas