The woman at the well:by Fr. Peter Burke PP Ferbane
A Jew meets a Samaritan at a well beyond the
edge of town, and a barrier is broken down.
A Jewish man was not supposed to talk to a
Samaritan woman. Jesus takes the initiative.
This is God’s way. He searches. We often
hide. The encounter occurs in a quiet space.
In the quiet space God can ‘catch’ us. If only
we would take the chance! In the end of the
story, a heart is touched, a life is mended, a
thirst is quenched, and the woman discovers
that God can make the very worst things that
ever happened in your life to work for your
very best. The fact that the woman is not given
a name means that we can step into the story.
Her thirst is the thirst that lies in every human
heart and only Christ can quench it. Great
things can happen when we come to the well.