Second Sunday: John 20 Church/Chancel Drama

Second Sunday considers the way of human knowing that is a pathway to faith. Seeing and touching as a basis of believing, the challenge of Doubting Thomas in the Second Sunday Resurrection experiences as narrated in the Gospel of John, is challenged. It is the way of knowing our modern minds have been conditioned to accept as the primary basis for discerning what is "really real", contrasted by Jesus in the Johannine Gospel to the relationship knowing whose dynamic force is love.
Second Sunday opens in hell where Jesus, forsaken at the Crucifixion, meets his betrayer, Judas, whose sin is that he cannot forgive himself for what he as done. At the Empty Tomb, loving Mary would run away with Jesus from all that has happened, the source of their salvation to be the passionate, earthly love she has for him. Jesus must go on the realize the ultimacy of the Resurrection in the transcending Love of God. On the Second Sunday, it is Doubting Thomas whose hard headed way of knowing is transformed by the loving relationship he experiences with the Risen Jesus that makes the sublime confession of faith in the four Gospels, calling Jesus both Lord and God.