Daily Reflection, Jesus and
The Samaritan woman ( 1 ), Coffee with Sr.Vassa Larina, May the 27th,
2016
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Objet :
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Tr : Daily
Reflection
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De :
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Olivia Marcov (...@yahoo.fr)
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Date
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Vendredi 27 mai 2016 16h19
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olivia
Le Vendredi 27 mai 2016 10h07, Coffee
with Sister Vassa <coffeewithsistervassa@gmail.com> a écrit :
(Friday, May 27)
“So he came to a city of Samaria Samaria Samaria
Indeed, at first the
Samaritan woman does not see “who it is” that is speaking with her. She merely
sees the externals and politics of status. She sees not Christ, but “a Jew,”
and herself, “a Samaritan” and “a woman,” drawing an immediate, accepted line
of demarcation between herself and the Stranger. But our Lord crosses this
line, speaking to her not as to “a woman” or “a Samaritan,” or some other
category, but as to a distinct person. Differently from her, He recognizes “the gift of God” and exactly “who it is”
with whom He speaks, – a concrete human being – and He calls her to do the
same.
Today let me recognize
His voice, however and whenever He might strike up a conversation with me. Let
me recognize “the gift of God”
in His messengers, be they women, men, Jews, Samarians, Greeks, Russians,
Americans, Georgians, Romanians, Serbs, or others. And
let me pray, as the Holy and Great Council nears, in a divided and divisive
world: O Lord, Founder and Spirit of our unity, may You speak and be heard
among us, regardless of our human lines of demarcation and politics of status,
that we may have living water. Glory be to You.
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