THE THIRD SUNDAY OF LENT - JESUS AND THE SAMARITAN WOMAN AT THE WELL..............

Recognizing and bringing to realization our Reconciliation with other people and our relationship with Jesus the Christ is adroitly addressed on thus Third Sunday of Lent by the John's Gospel Proclamation of Jesus Meeting the Samaritan Woman at the Well.  Jews and Samaritans in what was the first century of Christianity, had no dealings with one another to the  intensity of each despising the other.  Thus this woman of Samaria, who was five times married, was astounded that Jesus, a Jewish man asked her for a drink of water, conversed with her, did not condemn her, but assured her He would become Living Water for her and all Believers in Him.  Jesus responded and interacted with the Samaritan Woman in the Gospel, with the Mercy and Love of God.  The flowing openness of the merciful and loving Jesus shows to her melts the closed heart and opens her mind to receiving and accepting the quenching of her thirst to be freed from her captivity and isolation from a wholistically fulfilling. life.  In turn, she be an evangelist for the good works Jesus did for her, which testified to Who He Truly Is and converting the hearts and minds of others towards embracing Jesus The Christ.  In Lenten Repentance and Conversion, which of our sins do we need to quench out by by drinking of the Living Waters Jesus offers us to share ?  How  positively are we proceeding in finding the cleansing of God's Mercy and Love, as we interact with Jesus at the Well of our own Human Thirst for a Right and Just Relationship with the Divine and other Humans ?   Take a lead from the Samaritan Woman today and this week and accept them Living Waters Jesus is offering us to drink by acknowledging our need to renounce our sinfulness and faithfully follow our Lord and Savior Jesus The Christ..............Fr.  Troy David