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SUMMARY:Family Communion
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DESCRIPTION:Family Communion for the third Sunday of Lent: celebrant the R
 evd Adetola Badejo.\n\nFirst reading: Exodus 17: 1-7\nGospel: John 4: 5-42
 \n\nWater\, as a necessity for life and as a symbol\, plays a central role
  in today's readings. In  both\, there is a physical need for it:  the Isr
 aelites in Exodus are crossing a waterless desert\, and they are not neces
 sarily being unreasonable in telling Moses that their survival is at risk.
  God's revelation to Moses of a miraculous spring secures their safety and
  also acts as a metaphor for God's providence\; he will meet his people's 
 needs even when their situation appears hopeless.\n\nThe Gospel passage is
  longer and more obviously multilayered. Jesus also needs water and has no
  means of getting it\; his first step is to cross a rigid social boundary 
 and to ask a Samaritan for help. This Samaritan woman\, moreover\, seems t
 o be distanced from her own community\, because she comes to the well alon
 e rather than with the town's other women\; her life\, it seems\, has been
  marked by scandal. By the end of the passage\, many bridges have been bui
 lt and crossed: the recognition of shared human need implicit in Jesus's r
 equest for water leads on to a conversation about salvation. to the woman'
 s recognition of her own worth\, and to a confidence that enables her to t
 ell other people that she has met the Messiah.
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