FAUSTI - The woman finally recognizes her thirst for this water and asks for it as a gift The gift can neither be produced nor conquered, it can only be desired. Indeed, desire itself is the greatest gift that God has given us. It digs into us a chasm into which He can pour Himself and which only He can fill. With this question, the woman finally satisfies the thirst of Jesus, asking him what she did not know before and that even in the depths foreshadowed.Jesus wants the woman to discover who the Bridegroom is, whose love is the water that quenches her thirst. The Bridegroom of man is God, as opposed to the many husbands into whose hands the woman has fallen. He understood that his real need is God: "My soul thirsts for you, my flesh yearns for you, as a deserted, arid land without water" (Ps 63:2). The dialogue on worship begins with the question of the "place where one must worship" and ends with the answer of Jesus: that one must worship in Spirit and Truth. The new place of worship is Jesus (2:21), full communion between the Word and the flesh, between God and man. The new adoration is marked by the verb "must", which recalls the need for love: to give one's life. "I know that the Messiah is coming". Even the Samaritans, while recognizing only the first five books of the Bible - Pentateuch - await the Messiah, the new Moses who will fulfill every Word. The woman is therefore now open to welcome the Messiah. Jesus led her to desire living water, the Bridegroom. Now He can reveal Himself. "I-Am" This expression is frequent in John on the mouth of Jesus, to reveal His identity. After the Baptist's "I am not", the great revelation resounds for the first time in this woman's ears. "I am". He recalls the Name, manifested to Moses (Ex 3:14). Who is the Messiah, the Bridegroom, the Lord? "I am speaking to you." It is the culmination of the encounter between Jesus and the woman. The Samaritan woman is listening to the Word itself made flesh that speaks to her. It is the same that I also listen to: what He says to her heart, He says in mine too, arousing in me the desire that He has aroused in her. Like everyone else, I too can only discover God in this mouth to mouth with Him, who speaks to me from friend to friend. I do not understand Him by reasoning or talking about Him, but by speaking with Him and loving Him, as happens with every person. For this reason, true theology is prayer, and prayer is essentially listening to the One who speaks to me.
FAUSTI - The woman finally recognizes her thirst for this water and asks for it as a gift The gift can neither be produced nor conquered, it can only be desired.
RispondiEliminaIndeed, desire itself is the greatest gift that God has given us. It digs into us a chasm into which He can pour Himself and which only He can fill. With this question, the woman finally satisfies the thirst of Jesus, asking him what she did not know before and that even in the depths foreshadowed.Jesus wants the woman to discover who the Bridegroom is, whose love is the water that quenches her thirst. The Bridegroom of man is God, as opposed to the many husbands into whose hands the woman has fallen.
He understood that his real need is God: "My soul thirsts for you, my flesh yearns for you, as a deserted, arid land without water" (Ps 63:2).
The dialogue on worship begins with the question of the "place where one must worship" and ends with the answer of Jesus: that one must worship in Spirit and Truth.
The new place of worship is Jesus (2:21), full communion between the Word and the flesh, between God and man.
The new adoration is marked by the verb "must", which recalls the need for love: to give one's life.
"I know that the Messiah is coming".
Even the Samaritans, while recognizing only the first five books of the Bible - Pentateuch - await the Messiah, the new Moses who will fulfill every Word. The woman is therefore now open to welcome the Messiah.
Jesus led her to desire living water, the Bridegroom. Now He can reveal Himself.
"I-Am" This expression is frequent in John on the mouth of Jesus, to reveal His identity. After the Baptist's "I am not", the great revelation resounds for the first time in this woman's ears. "I am".
He recalls the Name, manifested to Moses (Ex 3:14).
Who is the Messiah, the Bridegroom, the Lord? "I am speaking to you."
It is the culmination of the encounter between Jesus and the woman.
The Samaritan woman is listening to the Word itself made flesh that speaks to her. It is the same that I also listen to: what He says to her heart, He says in mine too, arousing in me the desire that He has aroused in her.
Like everyone else, I too can only discover God in this mouth to mouth with Him, who speaks to me from friend to friend.
I do not understand Him by reasoning or talking about Him, but by speaking with Him and loving Him, as happens with every person. For this reason, true theology is prayer, and prayer is essentially listening to the One who speaks to me.