THE LIVING WATER
The world today is moving towards an arrogant independence. Each individual wears an attitude of pride that others do not matter to them. Season of Lent is a right occasion to remedy this. As Lent approaches we start to feel that we will now lack what we have been used to: lacking in joy, lacking in love, lacking in food, lacking in beauty, etc. Often, we forget that lent is a time of grace, a time of filling, a time of refilling, a time of energizing our spiritual life. During this period, we meditate on the goodness of God, on his gracious acts in our lives.
The Book of Exodus explores God’s acts of kindness despite the murmurings of the Israelites. Further, St Paul affirms that it is merely through the mercy of Jesus that we have entered the state of grace in which we can look forward to God’s glory. In the gospel of John, an act of God’s grace is once again initiated by Jesus who encounters a rejected Samaritan woman and invites her to a life of grace and also to be the partner in reaching this grace to others.
Liturgical materials for the Third Sunday of Lent.
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