Since their Baptism on Holy Saturday these converts wore white robes. Now in their everyday dress they must go out as witnesses that “Christ is the Truth” (Epistle). God the “Father” bore “witness” to this at Christ’s Baptism by “water.” God the “Word” became our “Blood” witness on the Cross. God the “Spirit” gave witness when by Him Jesus was conceived in the womb of Mary. Yes, this is the triple “testimony of God” which we, too, must witness unto others—that “Jesus is God” (Epistle). To the “doubting Thomases” of all future ages, Jesus gave a new proof of His Divinity in today’s Gospel, “written that you may believe...and that believing you may have life.”
Today is Feast of St. Fidelis of Sigmaringen M., a Capuchin Friar Minor, who was sent to Grisons, Switzerland, was killed by Protestant soldiers who feared his Catholic influence might turn persons back to the Catholic Church. Although not commemorated in the Sunday Mass, pray to the Saint for strength to face an evil world.