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The “Water of Life” (Varnavas, Metropolitan of Neapolis and Stavroupolis)

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In the Gospel reading for tomorrow (4, 5-42), Saint John the Evangelist transports us to a well in Samaria, one hot noontide. Christ had sent His disciples to the nearby town of Sychar to fetch supplies and a local woman came to  the well to draw water. Jesus asked her to give Him some water, and then began one of the most revealing dialogues in Scripture. In this dialogue, Christ reveals the truly divine provenance of His word. It is a discourse that can, indeed, be adapted to human measures of understanding,  but it also clearly transcends the criteria with which people judge things. It is a discourse which reinvigorates human life because it offers precisely a new vision of the ...

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Sunday of the Samaritan woman (John 4:5-42) (Archimandrite Zacharias Zacharou)

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This Gospel reading is exceptional, loaded with great and sublime truths which the Lord condescended to impart to a dissolute woman, a heretic who had led a reckless life and hailed from Samaria, an abomination for the Jews. The reconciliatory way that Christ relates with this woman gives an example for converse with our fellow men. In this passage, on the one hand, we behold the majesty of God’s love, hunting man along all the paths of his life to work his salvation, and on the other, man even in the extremity of his fall able to co-work with God and ascend to an angelic height. The Jews considered the Samaritans unclean. This is superseded by Christ’s action, so the Apostle Paul ...

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