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in today’s Gospel <span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)"><b>Jesus encounters the Samaritan woman. </b></span>Throughout the
Old Testament, wells are trysting places. Abraham’s servant found a wife
for Isaac by a well; Jacob met his wife, Rachel, by a well.<br><br>
Therefore, when St. John tells us that Jesus encountered a woman at
Jacob’s well, we should expect that something like marriage is in the
offing. The Samaritan woman stands, says St. Augustine, for the Church,
which is the Bride of Jesus. <br><br> <span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)"><b>The Samaritan woman tells Jesus
that she is unmarried. Jesus responds with devastating clarity: “You are
right in saying, ‘I do not have a husband.’ For you have had five
husbands, and the one you have now is not your husband.” </b></span><span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)"><b>Think of <span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)">the
five husbands</span> as <span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)">five errant paths that </span>the woman <span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)">has taken.</span></b></span></span></b></b></b></span></b><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="margin:0px;outline:currentcolor none medium;padding:0px;font-weight:normal;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-size:18px;font-style:normal;text-align:start"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal"><span style="margin:0px;outline:currentcolor none medium;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><span style="margin:0px;outline:currentcolor none medium;padding:0px;font-size:18px;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal"><span style="margin:0px;outline:currentcolor none medium;padding:0px;font-size:18px;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal"> <span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">She has
“married” herself to wealth, pleasure, honor, power, material things,
etc.</span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span><b style="margin:0px;outline:currentcolor none medium;padding:0px;font-weight:normal;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-size:18px;font-style:normal;text-align:start"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:currentcolor none medium;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:currentcolor none medium;padding:0px;font-size:18px;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:currentcolor none medium;padding:0px;font-size:18px;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal"><span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)"><b><span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)">Or</span> think of <span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)">them</span> as f<span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)">ive ideologies or gurus that </span>she <span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)">has followed,
hoping to</span> find joy. </b></span><br><br> The point of the story is that<span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b> Jesus is
proposing marriage to <span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)">the woman, </span>to his Bride the Church. Only in him
will <span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)">the human race</span> find happiness, peace, and the “spring of water
welling up to eternal life.” </b></span><br><br><i style="margin:0px;outline:currentcolor none medium;padding:0px">Reflect: </i>What “errant paths” have you taken or “ideologies or gurus” have you followed in the past? What path are you on now? Why? </span></b></b></b><br></span></b></div><div style="margin:0px;outline:currentcolor none medium;padding:0px;font-size:18px;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-align:start"><b style="margin:0px;outline:currentcolor none medium;padding:0px;font-weight:normal;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-size:18px;font-style:normal;text-align:start"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal">
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Uram, adj türelmet,<br>
Hogy elfogadjam amin nem tudok változtatni,<br>
Adj bátorságot, hogy megváltoztassam,<br>
Amit lehet, és adj bölcsességet,<br>
Hogy a kettő között különbséget tudjak tenni.<br></b></span>
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,255)"><b><br>
Uram,
tégy engem békéd eszközévé, <br>
hogy szeressek ott, ahol gyűlölnek, <br>
hogy
megbocsássak ott, ahol megbántanak, <br>
hogy összekössek, ahol széthúzás
van, <br>
hogy reménységet keltsek, ahol kétségbeesés kínoz, <br>
hogy fényt
gyújtsak, ahol sötétség uralkodik, <br>
hogy örömet hozzak oda, ahol gond
tanyázik. <br></b></span>
</p><span style="color:rgb(0,0,255)"><b>
</b></span><p><span style="color:rgb(0,0,255)"><b>Ó Uram, segíts meg, hogy törekedjem, <br>
nem arra, hogy
megvigasztaljanak, hanem hogy én vigasztaljak, <br>
nem arra, hogy
megértsenek, hanem arra, hogy én megértsek, <br>
nem arra, hogy szeressenek,
hanem hogy én szeressek. <br></b></span>
</p><span style="color:rgb(0,0,255)"><b>
</b></span><p><span style="color:rgb(0,0,255)"><b>Mert aki így ad, az kapni fog, <br>
aki elveszíti
magát, az talál, <br>
aki megbocsát, annak megbocsátanak, <br>
aki meghal, az
fölébred az örök életre.<br>
Amen. (Assissi Szt. Ferenc)</b></span></p><p><span style="color:rgb(0,0,255)"><b><br></b></span></p>
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