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| "The Woman of Samaria at the Well" -- by James Tissot |
FIRST
READING: Exodus
17: 3 - 7
3
So the people were thirsty there for want of water, and murmured
against Moses, saying: Why didst thou make us go forth out of Egypt,
to kill us and our children, and our beasts with thirst?
4
And Moses cried to the Lord, saying: What shall I do to this people?
Yet a little more and they will stone me.
5
And the Lord said to Moses: Go before the people, and take with thee
of the ancients of Israel: and take in thy hand the rod wherewith
thou didst strike the river, and go.
6
Behold I will stand there before thee, upon the rock Horeb: and thou
shalt strike the rock, and water shall come out of it that the people
may drink. Moses did so before the ancients of Israel:
7
And he called the name of that place Temptation, because the chiding
of the children of Israel, and for that they tempted the Lord,
saying: Is the Lord amongst us or not?
PSALM:
Psalms 95:
1 - 2, 6 - 9
1
Come let us praise the Lord with joy: let us joyfully sing to God our
saviour.
2
Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving; and make a joyful
noise to him with psalms.
6
Come let us adore and fall down: and weep before the Lord that made
us.
7
For he is the Lord our God: and we are the people of his pasture and
the sheep of his hand.
8
Today if you shall hear his voice, harden not your hearts:
9
As in the provocation, according to the day of temptation in the
wilderness: where your fathers tempted me, they proved me, and saw my
works.
SECOND
READING: Romans
5: 1 - 2, 5 - 8
1
Being justified therefore by faith, let us have peace with God,
through our Lord Jesus Christ:
2
By whom also we have access through faith into this grace, wherein we
stand, and glory in the hope of the glory of the sons of God.
5
And hope confoundeth not: because the charity of God is poured forth
in our hearts, by the Holy Ghost, who is given to us.
6
For why did Christ, when as yet we were weak, according to the time,
die for the ungodly?
7
For scarce for a just man will one die; yet perhaps for a good man
some one would dare to die.
8
But God commendeth his charity towards us; because when as yet we
were sinners, according to the time.
GOSPEL:
John 4:
5 - 42 OR
John 4:
5 - 15, 19 - 26, 39 - 42
5
He cometh therefore to a city of Samaria, which is called Sichar,
near the land which Jacob gave to his son Joseph.
6
Now Jacob's well was there. Jesus therefore being wearied with his
journey, sat thus on the well. It was about the sixth hour.
7
There cometh a woman of Samaria, to draw water. Jesus saith to her:
Give me to drink.
8
For his disciples were gone into the city to buy meats.
9
Then that Samaritan woman saith to him: How dost thou, being a Jew,
ask of me to drink, who am a Samaritan woman? For the Jews do not
communicate with the Samaritans.
10
Jesus answered, and said to her: If thou didst know the gift of God,
and who he is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou perhaps
wouldst have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water.
11
The woman saith to him: Sir, thou hast nothing wherein to draw, and
the well is deep; from whence then hast thou living water?
12
Art thou greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and
drank thereof himself, and his children, and his cattle?
13
Jesus answered, and said to her: Whosoever drinketh of this water,
shall thirst again; but he that shall drink of the water that I will
give him, shall not thirst for ever:
14
But the water that I will give him, shall become in him a fountain of
water, springing up into life everlasting.
15
The woman saith to him: Sir, give me this water, that I may not
thirst, nor come hither to draw.
16
Jesus saith to her: Go, call thy husband, and come hither.
17
The woman answered, and said: I have no husband. Jesus said to her:
Thou hast said well, I have no husband:
18
For thou hast had five husbands: and he whom thou now hast, is not
thy husband. This thou hast said truly.
19
The woman saith to him: Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet.
20
Our fathers adored on this mountain, and you say, that at Jerusalem
is the place where men must adore.
21
Jesus saith to her: Woman, believe me, that the hour cometh, when you
shall neither on this mountain, not in Jerusalem, adore the Father.
22
You adore that which you know not: we adore that which we know; for
salvation is of the Jews.
23
But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true adorers shall adore
the Father in spirit and in truth. For the Father also seeketh such
to adore him.
24
God is a spirit; and they that adore him, must adore him in spirit
and in truth.
25
The woman saith to him: I know that the Messias cometh (who is called
Christ). Therefore, when he is come, he will tell us all things.
26
Jesus saith to her: I am he, who am speaking with thee.
27
And immediately his disciples came; and they wondered that he talked
with the woman. Yet no man said: What seekest thou? or, why talkest
thou with her?
28
The woman therefore left her waterpot, and went her way into the
city, and saith to the men there:
29
Come, and see a man who has told me all things whatsoever I have
done. Is not he the Christ?
30
They went therefore out of the city, and came unto him.
31
In the mean time the disciples prayed him, saying: Rabbi, eat.
32
But he said to them: I have meat to eat, which you know not.
33
The disciples therefore said one to another: Hath any man brought him
to eat?
34
Jesus saith to them: My meat is to do the will of him that sent me,
that I may perfect his work.
35
Do you not say, There are yet four months, and then the harvest
cometh? Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes, and see the
countries; for they are white already to harvest.
36
And he that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life
everlasting: that both he that soweth, and he that reapeth, may
rejoice together.
37
For in this is the saying true: That it is one man that soweth, and
it is another that reapeth.
38
I have sent you to reap that in which you did not labour: others have
laboured, and you have entered into their labours.
39
Now of that city many of the Samaritans believed in him, for the word
of the woman giving testimony: He told me all things whatsoever I
have done.
40
So when the Samaritans were come to him, they desired that he would
tarry there. And he abode there two days.
41
And many more believed in him because of his own word.
42
And they said to the woman: We now believe, not for thy saying: for
we ourselves have heard him, and know that this is indeed the Saviour
of the world.
OR
5
He cometh therefore to a city of Samaria, which is called Sichar,
near the land which Jacob gave to his son Joseph.
6
Now Jacob's well was there. Jesus therefore being wearied with his
journey, sat thus on the well. It was about the sixth hour.
7
There cometh a woman of Samaria, to draw water. Jesus saith to her:
Give me to drink.
8
For his disciples were gone into the city to buy meats.
9
Then that Samaritan woman saith to him: How dost thou, being a Jew,
ask of me to drink, who am a Samaritan woman? For the Jews do not
communicate with the Samaritans.
10
Jesus answered, and said to her: If thou didst know the gift of God,
and who he is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou perhaps
wouldst have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water.
11
The woman saith to him: Sir, thou hast nothing wherein to draw, and
the well is deep; from whence then hast thou living water?
12
Art thou greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and
drank thereof himself, and his children, and his cattle?
13
Jesus answered, and said to her: Whosoever drinketh of this water,
shall thirst again; but he that shall drink of the water that I will
give him, shall not thirst for ever:
14
But the water that I will give him, shall become in him a fountain of
water, springing up into life everlasting.
15
The woman saith to him: Sir, give me this water, that I may not
thirst, nor come hither to draw.
19
The woman saith to him: Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet.
20
Our fathers adored on this mountain, and you say, that at Jerusalem
is the place where men must adore.
21
Jesus saith to her: Woman, believe me, that the hour cometh, when you
shall neither on this mountain, not in Jerusalem, adore the Father.
22
You adore that which you know not: we adore that which we know; for
salvation is of the Jews.
23
But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true adorers shall adore
the Father in spirit and in truth. For the Father also seeketh such
to adore him.
24
God is a spirit; and they that adore him, must adore him in spirit
and in truth.
25
The woman saith to him: I know that the Messias cometh (who is called
Christ). Therefore, when he is come, he will tell us all things.
26
Jesus saith to her: I am he, who am speaking with thee.
39
Now of that city many of the Samaritans believed in him, for the word
of the woman giving testimony: He told me all things whatsoever I
have done.
40
So when the Samaritans were come to him, they desired that he would
tarry there. And he abode there two days.
41
And many more believed in him because of his own word.
42
And they said to the woman: We now believe, not for thy saying: for
we ourselves have heard him, and know that this is indeed the Saviour
of the world.
