♦Meditations and Reflections on:
♦Encounter the thirst of Jesus with Mother Teresa
"Jesus is God, therefore His love,
His Thirst, is infinite.
He the creator of the universe,
asked for the love of His creatures. He thirst for our love."
(Saint Teresa of Calcutta)
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♦2. Set me on fire with the flame of your love
♦3. God desires to draw near to YOU in Christ
♦4. Listen to the voice of Jesus…
♦5. “If you knew the gift of God …”
♦6. The well of my heart is deep; can you satisfy it entirely?
♦7. “Whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst …”
♦8. “Sir, give me this water, that I may not thirst”
♦10. “Worship the Father in spirit and truth …”
♦11. “I who speak to you am he.”
♦12. “Come and see a man who told me all that I ever did.”
♦13. “I have food to eat that you know nothing about."
♦14. “We have heard for ourselves,and we know that this man really is the Savior of the world."
God THIRSTS that we may THIRST for him.
Only when we meet the living God in Christ do we know what life is.There is nothing more beautiful than to be surprised by the Gospel, by the encounter with Christ....
The Samaritan woman experienced the beauty and power of that encounter with Christ. Will each one of us accept God as He lovingly and wisely reveals Himself, or will we, tragically, reject Him because He does not appear according to our preconceived notions?
Jesus’ words "I Thirst" are a living invitation to YOU through the gospel story of the woman at the well (Jn.4:1-30). We know what the Samaritan woman was, and we know what she became. “The liturgy for the Third Sunday of Lent presents a splendid commentary on the Johannine episode when it says in the preface that Jesus “so deeply thirsted” for the salvation of the Samaritan women that “he set on fire in her the flame of God’s love.”(Homily of John Paul II, 3 March 2002)
Allow Jesus to do the some for you as you go prayerfully over this scripture passages:
♦God desires to draw near to YOU in Christ
♦Prayer to be prayed every day:
Text © Mother Teresa Center of the Missionaries of Charity