3rd Sunday of Lent (Year A) - John 4: 5-42

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🗓️ 11 March 2023

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John 4: 5-42 - 'A spring of water welling up to eternal life.'

Catechism of the Catholic Church Paragraphs:

- 544 (in 'The Proclamation of the Kingdom of God') - Jesus shares the life of the poor, from the cradle to the cross; he experiences hunger, thirst and privation. Jesus identifies himself with the poor of every kind and makes active love toward them the condition for entering his kingdom (abbreviated).

- 694 (in 'Symbols of the Holy Spirit') - Water. the symbolism of water signifies the Holy Spirit's action in Baptism, since after the invocation of the Holy Spirit it becomes the efficacious sacramental sign of new birth: just as the gestation of our first birth took place in water, so the water of Baptism truly signifies that our birth into the divine life is given to us in the Holy Spirit. As "by one Spirit we were all baptized," so we are also "made to drink of one Spirit." Thus the Spirit is also personally the living water welling up from Christ crucified as its source and welling up in us to eternal life.

- 586 (in' Jesus and the Temple') - Far from having been hostile to the Temple, where he gave the essential part of his teaching, Jesus was willing to pay the Temple-tax, associating with him Peter, whom he had just made the foundation of his future Church. He even identified himself with the Temple by presenting himself as God's definitive dwelling-place among men .Therefore his being put to bodily death presaged the destruction of the Temple, which would manifest the dawning of a new age in the history of salvation: "The hour is coming when neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father."

- 439 (in 'Christ') - Many Jews and even certain Gentiles who shared their hope recognized in Jesus the fundamental attributes of the messianic "Son of David", promised by God to Israel. Jesus accepted his rightful title of Messiah, though with some reserve because it was understood by some of his contemporaries in too human a sense, as essentially political.

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0:00.0	Hi everyone. Welcome back to the Logical Bible Study podcast. Today we're going to do things a little
0:18.1	bit differently because the reading is just so long. And so what we're going to do is we're going to read out a little bit differently because the reading is just so long.
0:27.4	And so what we're going to do is we're going to read out the whole passage and then rather trying to do an exegesis of the whole thing today.
0:36.3	We'll leave that to a later time when this passage is broken down into weekday readings, which does happen a little later in the liturgical years.
0:39.8	And so, yeah, we'll read the passage today.
0:44.9	And as I'm reading, I would just encourage you to imagine that you're there watching this scene because it's quite intimate scene.
0:48.0	And we'll finish with reflection on a couple of the catechism paragraphs which are
0:53.1	which are in connection with
0:55.2	this particular chapter. So we're looking today at John chapter 4, verse 5 to 42. Jesus came to the
1:07.5	Samaritan town named Sychar near the land that Jacob gave to his son Joseph.
1:14.3	Jacob's well is there and Jesus, tired by the journey, sat straight down by the well. It was about
1:21.5	the sixth hour. When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her, Give me a drink.
1:29.8	His disciples had gone into the town to buy food.
1:33.8	The Samaritan woman said to him,
1:35.9	What? You are a Jew and you ask me a Samaritan for a drink?
1:42.0	Jews, in fact, do not associate with Samaritans. Jesus replied,
1:47.9	"'If you only knew what God is offering and who it is that is saying it to you, give me a drink,
1:54.3	you would have been the one to ask, and he would have been giving you living water.'
2:00.4	"'You have no bucket, sir,' she answered, and the well is deep.' and he would have been giving you living water.
2:03.3	"'You have no bucket, sir,' she answered,
2:04.5	"'and the well is deep.
2:06.9	"'How could you get this living water?' "'Are you a greater man than our father Jacob
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