- John 20:24-29 ("My Lord and my God!")

As a boy waited for the appearance of the first star, "listen in" on your own life.  Where have you struggled with doubts, with seeming unresolvable questions in your faith life?  Do you need to express these doubts again and again?   Have you felt at times that these doubts and questions had resolved themselves imperceptibly or at least that they had lost their power to torment?  Have they been taken from you through a distinct event?  Was it the Lord, the resurrected one, who encountered you in this way in your life? (This doesn't exclude the fact that as long as you live by faith and not by sight there will always be other unresolved questions and doubts.)

- Ancient Russian icon - Christ's descent into hell  (picture meditation)

Christ comes as the resurrected one and victor into the darkness of my confusion, my unresolved questions and my doubts...