The reading for today: John4:5-42 = Jesus meets the woman at the well.
Here's a clip from one of my favorite Jesus movies, The Gospel of John, which starred Henry Ian Cusick (of Lost fame) as Jesus ...
When the Vatican sent out its pre-synod survey, the Bishops in Japan used this story of Jesus and the woman at the well to make a point ...
Japan's bishops have publicly responded to a Vatican survey of global Catholics' views on family issues, stating bluntly that church teachings are not known in their country and the Vatican's Europe-centric view hampers efforts at evangelization in places where Catholics represent a small minority of the population ....
In response to a question on couples who live together before marriage, the Japanese say, "The pastoral practice of the Church must begin from the premise that cohabitation and civil marriage outside the church have become the norm."
"In developing a pastoral orientation, it is perhaps important to recall that the only time in the gospels that Jesus clearly encounters someone in a situation of cohabitation outside of marriage (the Samaritan woman at the well) he does not focus on it," they state. "Instead, he respectfully deals with the woman and turns her into a missionary." ..
One of the thing I like best about Jesus is the way he interacts with women ... I feel he must be pretty disappointed in the way the church treats them.
Sunday, March 19, 2017
The woman at the well
The reading for today: John4:5-42 = Jesus meets the woman at the well.
Here's a clip from one of my favorite Jesus movies, The Gospel of John, which starred Henry Ian Cusick (of Lost fame) as Jesus ...
When the Vatican sent out its pre-synod survey, the Bishops in Japan used this story of Jesus and the woman at the well to make a point ...
Japan's bishops have publicly responded to a Vatican survey of global Catholics' views on family issues, stating bluntly that church teachings are not known in their country and the Vatican's Europe-centric view hampers efforts at evangelization in places where Catholics represent a small minority of the population ....
In response to a question on couples who live together before marriage, the Japanese say, "The pastoral practice of the Church must begin from the premise that cohabitation and civil marriage outside the church have become the norm."
"In developing a pastoral orientation, it is perhaps important to recall that the only time in the gospels that Jesus clearly encounters someone in a situation of cohabitation outside of marriage (the Samaritan woman at the well) he does not focus on it," they state. "Instead, he respectfully deals with the woman and turns her into a missionary." ..
One of the thing I like best about Jesus is the way he interacts with women ... I feel he must be pretty disappointed in the way the church treats them.
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Another great post. I am really happy that the women are taking the lead in getting this blog going. I really like posting more than commenting, and many of my comments look like small posts. So I am going to have to getting out of the commenting habit and get busy helping with the posting.
ReplyDeleteI have always loved this gospel reading (even if it's long and you're standing for quite a while). Come to think of it I like all the ones from John that come up this time of year, such as the man born blind and the raising of Lazarus. This one seems to answer the question, can you uphold the sanctity of marriage and at the same time meet people where they are?
ReplyDeleteThanks, Jack. I hope you will post more often. I hope others will post more too. The diversity should be really interesting.
ReplyDeleteKatherine, I really like the stories in the gospel of John too. It seems like the most anti-Jewish one too, though. That movie has a little blurb at the beginning to try to defuse that ...
ReplyDelete"The Gospel of John was written two generations after the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. It is set in a time when the Roman empire controlled Jerusalem. Although crucifixion was the preferred Roman method of punishment, it was not one sanctioned by Jewish law. Jesus and all His early followers were Jewish. The Gospel reflects a period of unprecedented polemic and antagonism between the emerging church and the religious establishment of the Jewish people. This film is a faithful presentation of that Gospel."
This is what I made of the story in a homily yesterday:
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Fr. K, the link seems to go to a password protected page that I couldn't access.
ReplyDeleteThe link to Father Komanchak's homily is as follows:
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Thanks, David.
Delete(This is not directly related to this post but is relevant to the Lenten season. It seems futile to paste links on this site... David N: can you devise a solution to the link-issue?)
ReplyDeleteWon't try to post a link but do recommend (as in Advent) the poems posted on the Malcolm Guite blog, from his book, The Word in the Wilderness. The poems are in written and audio format, some or most composed by himself, an Anglican poet and priest and a lovely soul. Nothing hackneyed, all quite fresh.
See my new post on links and other HTML coding in comments.
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