St. Thomas the Apostle

It seems that our modern world has only two options in regards to science and faith. First says there is no God because we cannot proove his existence. Second says there is faith and it has nothing to do with any type of science. Both of those options are missing something very important and the only way to find this missing piece is to look at what the opposite side has to offer. St. Thomas represents the third option: unity between a science and a faith. It might be confusing to you but here is a beautiful part of this union. God from the very beginning of creation offers us everything that he created. In this gift he included a gift of knowledge and a gift of faith. Both of them are a challenge. A desire of knowing brought a sin upon Adam and Eve, but it also brought great relationship between God and Moses, when Moses went to check the burning bush. Our faith is a gift of creation too. Wherever we are our faith leads us to the truth. Knowledge desires the truth that is given to us by faith. St. Thomas has a knowledge - Christ is risen - but he also confessed his faith: “My Lord and my God”. Fides et ratio - faith and reason. We learn this today from our saint of the day. This is a call for all of us. We have to believe and we have to know. “Faith and reason are like two wings on which the human spirit rises to the contemplation of truth; and God has placed in the human heart a desire to know the truth—in a word, to know himself—so that, by knowing and loving God, men and women may also come to the fullness of truth about themselves.” St. John Paul II, Pope