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For Reflection...
Living Waters
The Samaritan woman, like many others we meet during Lent in John’s gospel, misunderstands so much Jesus tells her. Yet, without waiting till she understands, Jesus leads her into mysteries deeper still. At Jacob’s well he promises her a spring of water welling up within her to eternal life. Never would she thirst again. Does he know of a well somewhere, she wonders clutching her water jar, a holy well whose waters cure and restore one to health? To Nicodemus, who misunderstood him too, Jesus said: “Amen, amen, I say to you, no one can enter the kingdom of God without being born of water and the Spirit.” “How can someone be born again?” Nicodemus asked. (John 3) The man born blind (John 9) was told: “Go wash in the Pool of Siloam”. He went and washed and came back able to see. But he hardly understood how it all came about.
Is our Lenten journey like this? Jesus leading us into the deepest mysteries, while we, like the Samaritan woman and the others, are slow to understand? Is Lent a time when we, like them, pray for faith that far outruns the way we know?
Thank you, Thank you, Thank You..
To all Faith Formation Catechists and volunteers who made our First Communion Retreat an unforgettable spiritual experience! God Bless You for all you do!!!
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