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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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