The Thirst of the Heart
On this Third Sunday of Lent, as later in the Fourth and Fifth Sunday, the Liturgy, instead of the Gospel according to St. Matthew, offers us three texts taken from the Gospel of St. John. They describe three meetings of Jesus:
-the one with the Samaritan woman at Jacob’s well, who receives the gift of the water that quenches thirst forever;
-the one with the man born blind, who receives the light of the eyes and of the heart;
-the one with his friend Lazarus, whom He resurrects.