One Who Is Greater Than Our Father Jacob

Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies

Bishop Robert Barron

Spirituality, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality:christianity, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 27 March 2011

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

The story of Christ's encounter with the Samaritan woman is a kind of template by which we can understand our own encounter with the Lord.

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0:00.0	This is Cardinal Francis George. I invite you to join me for the next two minutes to reflect
0:09.0	with Father Robert Barron on the Word of God, which is the Word on Fire. Word on Fire Catholic
0:14.2	Ministries is a non-profit ministry at the forefront of Catholic evangelization, using
0:18.9	new media to spread the faith and every continent. Father Barron challenges us to open our hearts
0:23.9	to the Word on Fire, which is God's Word of Love for each of us. If our hearts are open,
0:29.5	the Lord can change and transform us so that we might speak with love about the one who
0:34.6	is love. The global benefactors of Word on Fire with the support of the Archdiocese of
0:39.4	Chicago now present Word on Fire. Peace be with you. Friends, what a privilege we have on
0:48.7	this third Sunday of Lent to read from the fourth chapter of John's Gospel, one of the
0:53.4	most magnificent passages in the Bible. The story of Jesus' conversation with the woman at the
1:00.3	well. We are all meant to identify with this woman in this archetypal encounter with Jesus. We
1:08.5	are all in her place. We're all being drawn into the power of what Jesus offers. Let me look now
1:17.6	just in a few highlights of this magnificent story. Please get out your Bible today at some
1:21.4	point and read through chapter 4 of John's Gospel to catch all the nuance and detail of this
1:27.4	beautiful account. Jesus came to a town of Samaria called Sikhar near the plot of land that Jacob
1:35.3	had given to a son Joseph and Jacob's well was there. Of course, nothing's accidental in John's
1:41.0	Gospel. All the details matter. First of all, Jesus is passing through Samaria, that in itself is
1:48.1	worthy of attention. Because Pius Jews at the time tended to go around Samaria. Samaria was
1:54.3	filled with halfbreeds. Jews who had had intermarried with the Assyrians who had invaded the land many
2:00.7	centuries before, and they were seen as unclean and unworthy. So Pius Jews went around Samaria,
2:06.7	when going from Judea and the South to Galilee in the North. It's very important to note Jesus
2:12.2	doesn't go around Samaria. He goes through it. Jesus loves the unclean. Jesus loves sinners.
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