This weekends Gospel Reflection (March 23, 2014) Invited into Covenant with God Today’s Gospel narrates Jesus‘ encounter with the Samaritan woman. She remains hidden due to her reputation and goes to the well at the hottest time of the day, high noon, in order to avoid other people. Jesus extends greater dignity and respect to the woman, than she gave herself and offers her living water, the kind that gives spiritual strength and sustenance. The woman at the well does not understand. He directs her to call her husband. The number of husbands she had represent the number of gods her people served until this encounter with Jesus. In offering her the living water, Jesus is becoming her seventh spouse, the perfect biblical number. She asks Him if He is the Messiah. The Samaritan Messiah was one who would reveal God’s secrets to them. This is exactly what Jesus was doing in revealing all the woman’s secrets to her. The woman learns about true worship of God; to worship the Father in Spirit and Truth, that is, to worship the Father in Jesus (the Truth) and through the Holy Spirit (the Spirit). Filled with His grace, the font of living water welling up inside of her, the woman, who once avoided the people out of shame, now fearlessly goes back to her people to sow the seed of the harvest of the Samaritan people’s faith. In sharing her discovery, she helps to bring them to salvation. They then encounter Jesus themselves and come to a more profound faith based on their own experience of Him, not just her testimony.
Posted on: Thu, 20 Mar 2014 18:36:07 +0000
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