3rd Sunday of Lent, Year A

Spiritual Thirst and Fulfillment

Look at Moses in today's incident. Abandoning his own plans so he could serve God, he became the target of people's anger over the effort to become free. Refusing to accept blame for what he hadn't started, Moses let God have it: "What would you have me do with this people?" As he confronted God, Moses learned how God remained with him and could act through him. God led him to open the spring that satisfied his people's thirst. Moses shows us that prayers of passionate complaint and questioning express faith, deepen our relationship with God and lead us to unanticipated solutions.

This leads into the story of Jesus and the Samaritan woman known in Eastern traditions as Photini. Commentators often begin their interpretation of this story with the assumption that she was a notorious sinner. They assert that people shunned her as a fivefold adulteress, the proof being that she had to go alone to the well at noon rather than when other women collected their water. This view
reinforces the notion that Jesus focused on sin and repentance more than on a transformative change of heart. In the conversation, no longer Jew and Samaritan, the woman allowed Jesus to open
her mind. She now sees beyond her prejudices.




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