A time of Lexio devena for the discerning heart.

The third Sunday of Lent

As you begin, take a deep breath and exhale slowly.

For the next few moments, surrender all the cares and concerns of the stay to the Lord. Say slowly from your heart, Jesus, I trust in you. You take over. become aware that he is with you,

looking upon you with love, wanting to be heard deep within your heart.

A reading from the Holy Gospel according to Luke, chapter 9 verses 51 through 62.

Jesus came to the Samaritan town called Sychar, near the land that Jacob gave to his son Joseph.

Jacob's well is there, and Jesus, tired by the

journey, sat straight down by the well. It was about the sixth hour. When a Samaritan woman came to

draw water, Jesus said to her, give me a drink. His disciples had gone into the town to buy food. The Samaritan woman said to him,

What? You are a Jew, and you ask me a Samaritan for a drink? Jews, in fact, do not associate

with Samaritans. Jesus replied, if you only knew what God is offering and who it is that is saying to you, give me a drink,

you would have been the one to ask, and he would have given you living water.

You have no bucket, sir, she answered, and the well is deep. How could you get this living water?

Are you a greater man than our father Jacob who gave us this well

and drank from it himself with his sons and his cattle? Jesus replied,

Whoever drinks this water will get thirsty again. But anyone who drinks the water I shall give

will never be thirsty again. The water that I shall give will never be thirsty again.

The water that I shall give will turn into a spring inside him, welling up to eternal life.

Sir, said the woman, give me some of that water so that I may never get thirsty and never have to come here again to draw water.

Go and tell your husband, Jesus said to her, and come back here.

The woman answered, I have no husband.

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