THIRD SUNDAY OF LENT

READINGS AT MASS

Exodus  17:3-7

Psalm 95

Rom. 5:1-2, 5-8

Jn. 4:5-42

Theme: LOOKING FOR WATER

Dear friends in Christ, N'wokafu YESU KRISTO...

The Samaritan woman in today's Gospel was empty and broken. Just like her very life, she had been coming to the same well over and over to quench a thirst that the physical waters of Jacob's well could not satisfy.

This woman had been married to five men, and the present one was also a failed cause. This is a typical example of a woman so broken and empty that she wanted to fill the void of love and self-worth with the approval of men. She had been trying to quench her thirst for true love and self-esteem with men. 

At this low point of psychological and emotional crisis, she met Jesus, who taught her to stop quenching her thirst with the wrong water. 

Beloved, you can not quench your deep-seated thirst with the wrong source of water. Many are those who are broken and empty and are trying to quench their thirst with the wrong things (waters). Jesus alone reveals our deep-seated thirst in life. He comes to meet us seated on the well as the only true well whose live-giving water quenches every thirst of man. He provokes us to reconsider the root cause of our thirst in life.

During this Lenten season, let us come to Jesus as broken as we are. Let us allow Him to meet us at our lowest so as to expose our deep-seated thirsts. He alone can show us true love and cause us to live again.

PRAYER

Lord, as we make the effort to encounter you during this Lenten season, expose our deep-seated thirst to us and lead us to the right source of water that satisfies eternally. Amen! 

May God bless you. 

-Rev. Fr. Kenneth Debre

Sunday, March 12, 2023. 

Holy Rosary Parish, Hohoe.