A time of Lexio devena for the discerning heart. Monday of the fourth week in 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.

Thank you. You take over.

Become aware that he is with you, looking upon you with love, wanting to John, chapter 4, verses 43 through 54.

Jesus left Samaria for Galilee.

He himself had declared that there is no respect for a prophet in his own country,

but on his arrival the Galileans received him well,

having seen all that he had done at Jerusalem during the festival, which they too had attended.

He went again to Cana and Galilee,

where he had changed the water into wine.

Now there was a court official there

whose son was ill at Copernum,

and hearing that Jesus had arrived in Galilee from Judea,

he went and asked him to come and cure his son

as he was at the point of death.

Jesus said, so you will not believe unless you see signs and portents?

Sir, answered the official, come down before my child dies.

Go home, said Jesus, your son will live.

The man believed what Jesus had said and started on his way.

And while he was still on the journey back, his servants met him with the news that his boy was alive.

He asked them when the boy had begun to recover. The fever left him yesterday, they said, at the seventh hour.

The father realized that this was exactly the time when Jesus said, your son will live,

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