Clergy Notes — April 12, 2026

This Sunday – sometimes (unfortunately) called “Low Sunday” because of its typical drop in attendance from the Paschal festivities of the previous week – completes the octave of Easter, and is appropriately marked as joyful a feast in its own right. As with the next several Sundays in Eastertide, we will hear one of the Gospel accounts of Jesus’ resurrected appearance: this one featuring Thomas the Apostle.

I find Thomas rather endearing, as I suspect many of you do as well. There is something so earnest about him; he is not afraid to question the resurrected Jesus, even if it will ultimately earn him the unfortunate name, “Doubting Thomas.” Like the Sunday to which his story belongs, sometimes the most basic adjectives do not leave room for the full story, nor for the complexity of God’s glory to be revealed.

I confess, I like certainty. I think that’s probably true of most of us. But—as we learn with Thomas—following Jesus tests our reliance on certainty, and asks of us a level of trust which seems to increase more and more as our discipleship grows. Our path does not often grow clearer as we follow our resurrected Lord; it becomes more obscure, forcing us to fix our eyes more clearly on Jesus, and less on the path itself.

Are there circumstances in your life right now in which you find yourself being asked to fix your eyes on Jesus, rather than the path you are on? Perhaps you might spend some time this week in prayer, and ask for courage to let go of certainty, trusting that the One who made you and loves you will hold you, wherever that path leads.

Mother Amanda

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