Thirsting for God
3/3/202615 min
Friends, on this Third Sunday of Lent, we hear the story from John’s Gospel of the woman at the well—a kind of master class in evangelization. What is evangelization all about? It’s about telling starving people where to find bread; it’s about telling people dying of thirst where to find water. Every one of us sinners seeks life in this way; thus, this story, so rich in its dynamics, is a story about all of us.
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First 90 secondsSpeaker 10:00
[uplifting music] Friends, welcome to Word on Fire Catholic Ministries. Word on Fire is an apostolate dedicated to the mission of evangelization, using media both old and new to share the faith on every continent and to facilitate an encounter with Christ and his Church. The efforts of Word on Fire engage the culture and bring the transformative power of God's Word where it is most needed. Today, we invite you to join Bishop Robert Barron as he preaches the gospel and shares the warmth and light of Christ with each one of us.
Robert Barron· Host0:39
Peace be with you. Friends, for this third Sunday of Lent, you know, we're in Cycle A, and that means we get some of the richest readings, uh, of, of the Lenten possibilities. Um, this week, the woman at the well. What is it about this story? You know, John's gospel is, um, uh, it's a gospel of high kind of philosophical assertions, but it's also a gospel of conversations, these wonderful, lengthy dialogues Jesus has with people. And this one, I think, is a kind of master class in evangelization. So this theme that preoccupies us in the Church today, look to the dynamics of this story, and it's also... it's about every one of us, every one of us sinners who are seeking life, and that's what evangelization's about. It's, it's telling starving people where