Third Sunday of Lent
Notes
Transcript
Intro
Intro
The 7th husband
Wedding Analogy
infinite Good wishes give Infinite Good, Himself.
If that is true it means all that thought Christian life:
dull
empty
cheesy
one analogy/metaphor God uses for giving us infinite is wedding
no more physical symbol clearer for closeness and relatedness
no closer union possible than good one btwn husband and wife
Wedding here
Jacob’s well
Moses, Isaac, and Jacob’s wife found at well
For Jacob at Jacob’s well:
same time Gospel story
moving a rock for water placed at the well
Christ is rock of living water
Paul water in the desert was rock followed Israel and was Christ
Jewish legend well became spring of living water
Woman as bride
Represents non-Jews separated from God
God bring all into family
how non-bloodline family? Marry
make marriage [Catholic teach unbreakable] more imp than blood, closer relation than parent or sibling
closest passing physical relation, good rep of spiritual
already 5 husbands and a 6th false one
numbers imp to judaism
5 books of torah or 5 senses [fathers]
acquired a false 6th book or false 6th sense
bad faith, like all non-jew
calls beyond 5 senses [spirit and truth], reject the false 6th, and 7th husband [7 is completeness in Judaism]
Offers not passing water like Jacob, but eternal water
CCC 1617 Baptism analogous bath for marital feast
baptism washes old sins
gets confess and repent of 6th husband who false [baptism of desire]
abandons old ways becomes an evangelist immediately
spouse of Christ bring whole family too
Woman represents all, how react to God’s gift
The bride, lived most visual on earth as the mysterious nun, one of the clearest feminine images of the Church who is bride of Christ
without her not family w/ Christ
Offensive
Descend form cloudy heavenly mysteries back to earthly
on a 6th husband? really?
time of day suggesting she is outcast among outcasts
Jesus alone chatting it up with her in a setting associated with match making.
monk in bar with harlot
Offensive, but disciples trust no immoral
just like scandal of bringing a sinner back, but the Christian trusts
Old Testament, often images as marrying the rejected harlot
Christ brazenly risks offense to save
Us
Offense comes in all ways and forms
friend to the rejected
bring back those popular to hate
Teaching correct things politically incorrect
clear with the truth
willing to be around the sometimes offensive bride(the Church) and be offensive like Christ when charity?
or hold ourselves aloof of even God Himself as if could b better than the Good
care more about our status in the eyes of other people or about bringing God to the eyes of other people
Concl
Be like the 7th husband,Christ
Dare to risk offense by doing the right thing.
Notes
Notes
Me
Prob topics:
Do not test the Lord
Gen 24, Gen 29, Ex 2,
at noon, Jacob’s well
CCC 1617 baptism is bath for marital feast
water brings up and washes sin
Life thru sacrifice
5 senses, here 6th far sight is heretical
Christ comes at the 6th hour (Aug, Q64 [of the 83])
6th response is confession of Christ
worship in spirit and truth
apostles come thinking of earthly things
Christ speaks in riddles
Christ wearied like Israelite in desert, but focuses on the thirst for souls
not that senses bad (Christ uses, and apostles gone b/c getting food)
Rock in the desert represents Christ (1 Cor 10:4)
water flowing from Him (very contrary to normal course of action)
like uprooting and moving mountain
as Paul notes, the rock followed them
People complaining in the desert
Lord speaks in riddles and symbols
OT meeting wives at well
gets her to confess guilt when asks for water
5 husband [5 books] and her extra beliefs now are illegitimate
disciples: ‘he have some own meat’? So silly an interp, but we do the saem when think of earthly good and not spiritual. Even when we seperate only by degrees still not a quantum leap
Commentators
Pitre:
meribah ‘contention’, massah ‘testing’
Jesus wearies himself out on journey
Augustine:
woman type of Church
water enjoyed thru lust/pain and followed again by it, but God’s water forever
5 husband [5 books] and her extra Christ that dont yet hold [aug say bad interp]
5 husbands 5 senses
leaving waterpot is leaving love of world
Origen
6th husband is Samaritanism heresies
leaves waterpot (fleshly life) behind
Chrysostom
speaking of Church not being attached to Jerusalem or a mountain or that God is to be worshipped with soul b4 body
in truth is that what was typological/representative now is true in Sacraments
Christ speaks in visual signs b/c more vivid to human psyche
She is a gentile