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Rm. 5, 1-2. 5-8;
Jn. 4, 5-42
'A glass of water, please' . Something like this was what Jesus asked a Samaritan woman at the well of Jacob. 'Jesus came to a town in Samaria called Sychar ... tired of the way he sat there beside the spring. It was about noon. " are many details that suggest many things.
Jesus, tired and thirsty journey, asks for a drink, as those people who tired and thirsty her journey through the desert water also asks Moses, as we heard in the first reading. Jesus bled and hung on the cross, also tormented by thirst, also asked to drink - 'I have sed' , then scream -. But at another time will tell who was asking for water, thirsty thirsty all that ask for water, waiting for us we gave him to drink.
this is very significant and suggests that reminds us the gospel of the Samaritan woman at Jacob's well that today we have been proclaimed. What and who is thirsty Jesus? What does it mean?
Jesus is talking about so many hungry, we might as well, who travel the roads of the world, hoping to quench their thirst, not knowing how to find this living water they need. In Jesus thirsty at the well of Jacob and asking to drink we consider the poverty of so many who need water to soothe your physical thirst, but rather another calme deepest thirst that may be in the heart of man.
establishing dialogue between Jesus and Samaritan woman expresses deep thirst of man is not only the fact that Jesus asked the woman water with all those connotations of whether he is Jewish and she was a Samaritan, that whether or not that draw water from that deep well, but in the thirst of the woman is that thirst deep within us that many times in so many questions that we place in our heart, that craving that we can have happiness and good things and we do not know where to find, or the transcendence that can awaken within us that only in the fullness of God can truly satisfy.
woman will soon begin to ask Jesus to give this water to quench their thirst for not having come to those wells in search of water materials that do not give deep answers to life. 'If you knew the gift of God Jesus begins to tell, and who is asking you to drink, you ask and He will give you living water '.
Jesus is the one that comes to quench that thirst in us. Jesus is the one that will give us answers to all these questions. Jesus is the one that will give us the water that purifies us, but we are also alive. Jesus is the 'will arise in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life. "
There is this woman before Jesus who first sought only material and physical that water could get out of that pit Jacob - 'Lord, give me this water so I will not be thirsty or have to come here to draw' - but now with Jesus will discover that there are many things in your life that need the living water that Jesus offers. Your life will be irregular, will their faith and religious issues, will all vital concern in his heart.
Jesus and his word will help you make a tour of his life RIEF responding to all questions posed to him in the end the woman feel God in the depths of heart, because 'God must worship in spirit and truth ', to feel transformed by the presence of Jesus. Will soon announce their neighbors who have encountered who has said everything he has done and wonders if it will be the expected Messiah. Start sharing the water that has been found.
We also came to Jesus with our thirst, our life is not always very orderly, with our questions and our doubts. As we also want to ask this woman 'Lord, give me this water, and will never thirst ... "I'll be sick or looking for other sources such deceptive that many times we go through life drinking.
But we have to do it with sincerity. We must not be afraid to let ourselves be challenged by Jesus that we will be doing do all that is our life. In this Lenten journey towards Easter, we must learn that only Jesus is the one that satisfies the deepest faith that is within us. A thirst that can often haunt the sunshine of life with so many problems or concerns, also because we have upon us the burden of our sins. Jesus calms the thirst because it gives us the living water which purifies us and fills us with life. When we come to the Lord's resurrection on Easter morning we will renew our baptism and let the water fall back on us like a sign of this new life that shines in us.
We trust that in Jesus we will find that living water, and we will seek earnestly and without hesitation. As we heard in the reading of Exodus the people rebelled against Moses and against God because they thought they would die of thirst in the desert, and Moses hesitated in a way that God made them jump water from the rock to quench the thirst of that rebellious people. 'If today you hear his voice, harden not your hearts as in the desert when your fathers tempted me and tested me, " we prayed in Psalm. So we listen to Jesus, listen to His Word, drink from the fountain of living water that He offers us.
As the Pope says in his Lenten message ' The call of Jesus to the Samaritan woman: "Give me a drink" (Jn 4, 7), which reads the third Sunday liturgy, expressing the God's passion for every man and wants to inspire in our hearts the desire of the gift of "water welling up to eternal life" (v. 14): it is the gift of the Holy Spirit makes Christians "true worshipers" able to pray the Father "in spirit and in truth" (v. 23). Only this water can quench our thirst for goodness, truth and beauty! Only this water, which gives us the Son, supplies the deserts of the soul restless and dissatisfied, "until they rest in God, in the celebrated words of St. Augustine."
But I think we ask for something more this encounter with Jesus today. Who have found that living water can not be us just for us. In our side there is a thirsty world. Sediendo of many things and seeks satisfaction in sources of water are alive because they may not have found yet. Ask for water, looking for answers, they may desire for something in your heart and not sure what it is.
remembered the beginning of the gospel that other place where Jesus tells us that he was thirsty and you gave - or did not give him - drinking. For Jesus is thirsting for all those men and women who may walk bewildered by the ways of life and are asking us to drink but may not know well what we can offer or sometimes even reject us.
We have to go to quench that thirst. We must bring the living water that Jesus offers us and offers us all, and has placed in our hands to also lead others. We can not remain for us the water of faith, grace, eternal life, but we have to announce to share with others. Get seated next to the wells of life where they go to fetch water, to ask for water, but to offer our water better, the living water of Jesus. Help raise much faith in our side.
concern is that we always have to bring Jesus to others, to proclaim his gospel to all men to drink of that living water of grace that Jesus offers us. It is also a commitment of our Lenten journey.
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