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Hey there, Sprouts. Today is Wednesday, January 16th, 2019. This week on the Catholic Spouts

podcast, we have been talking about the theological virtue of faith, a virtue that we can only grow in, the closer we draw to God, and the issue that faith rests on truth.

It's not just that we believe this is true, but that it is true.

Now, today we're going to talk about another problem with the virtue of faith,

and that is that it rests on trust, often blind trust. Before we get

into this, I want to remind you of a story from the gospel. It happens at the very end of a gospel

after Jesus has risen from the dead. There was a disciple named Thomas. Sometimes we even refer to him as

Thomas the doubter. Thomas was a disciple of Jesus Christ. He knew him and followed him while Jesus was

alive. Then Jesus was crucified and like the rest of the disciples, he abandoned Jesus.

But a few days later, he started hearing through the other disciples that Jesus had risen

from the dead.

But Thomas hadn't seen him.

He thought perhaps they were crazy.

And he told them that he would not believe that Jesus had risen from the dead until he had placed his

own finger into the nail holes in Jesus' hands and put his hand into the deep cut in Jesus's

side. Well, wouldn't you know it? A couple days later, they were all together. time thomas was there and jesus came into

their presence jesus went up to thomas and said put your finger into my wounds and thomas

fell down and said my lord and my god he believed that jesus was the messiah He was the son of God and that everything he had said

well on earth was true. So Thomas had a profound moment of faith. Now the big difference, of course,

between us and Thomas is that we will likely never have an opportunity while in this life to see the risen Lord.

We will never be able to see it with our own earthly eyes. And yet, we need to make the profound

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