Unmarried Christian and Unmarried Church: Lessons from the Samaritan Woman.
In today’s Gospel reading Jesus encounters the Samaritan woman at the Jacob’s well. In the Old Testament, wells are meeting places, especially a secret meeting of lovers. Abraham’s servant found a wife for Isaac by a well; Jacob met his wife, Rachel, by a well. From a treatise on John, ‘A Samaritan Woman Came to Draw Water,’ by Saint Augustine, the Samaritan stands for the Church, the Bride of Jesus, ‘she is a symbol of the Church not yet made righteous. Righteousness follows from the conversation. She came in ignorance, she found Christ, and he enters into conversation with her.’...
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