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Third Sunday of Lent

Join us at our Saturday mass, at 4:30 p.m., in the Sanctuary or on Zoom. The passcode to enter is: liturgy. Please mute yourselves upon entering. This week’s worship aid is found here.

Water figures prominently in this week’s readings. From one of the Exodus stories in which the Hebrew people blame Moses and God for taking them out of slavery to a place where they have no ready access to clean water, to Jesus going to Jacob’s well in Sychar to refresh himself and encountering the Samaritan woman. In the first instance, God once again showed power and mercy for the people by showing them a source of water. In the second, the Samaritan people whose theistic beliefs had over centuries diverged from the Hebrews, would be astounded. What they did not expect is that the Hebrew Messiah would come to them and offer them mercy and salvation.

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