Responsorial Psalm
Come, let us sing joyfully to the LORD;
let us acclaim the Rock of our salvation.
Let us come into his presence with thanksgiving;
let us joyfully sing psalms to him.
Come, let us bow down in worship;
let us kneel before the LORD who made us.
For he is our God, and we are the people
he shepherds, the flock he guides.
Oh, that today you would hear his voice:
"Harden not your hearts as at Meribah,
as in the day of Massah in the desert,
Where your fathers tempted me;
they tested me though they had seen my works."
2nd. READING (Rom 5:1-2, 5-8)
Brothers and sisters: Since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God
through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have gained access by faith to this
grace in which we stand, and we boast in hope of the glory of God. And hope does not
disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out into our hearts through the
Holy Spirit who has been given to us. For Christ, while we were still helpless, died at
the appointed time for the ungodly.
Indeed, only with difficulty does one die for a just person, though perhaps for a good
person one might even find courage to die. But God proves his love for us in that while
we were still sinners Christ died for us.
Gospel
Jesus came to a town of Samaria called Sychar, near the plot of land that Jacob had
given to his son Joseph. Jacob's well was there. Jesus, tired from his journey, sat down
there at the well. It was about noon. A woman of Samaria came to draw water. Jesus
said to her, "Give me a drink." His disciples had gone into the town to buy food. The
Samaritan woman said to him, "How can you, a Jew, ask me, a Samaritan woman, for
a drink?" --For Jews use nothing in common with Samaritans.-- Jesus answered and
said to her, "If you knew the gift of God and who is saying to you, 'Give me a drink,'
you would have asked him and he would have given you living water." The woman
said to him, “Sir, you do not even have a bucket and the cistern is deep; where then
can you get this living water? Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us this
cistern and drank from it himself with his children and is flocks?" Jesus answered and
said to her, "Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again; but whoever drinks
the water I shall give will never thirst; the water I shall give will become in him a
spring of water welling up to eternal life." The woman said to him, "Sir, give me this
water, so that I may not be thirsty or have to keep coming here to draw water. "I can
see that you are a prophet.
Our ancestors worshiped on this mountain; but you people say that the place to
worship is in Jerusalem." Jesus said to her, "Believe me, woman, the hour is coming
when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. You
people worship what you do not understand; we worship what we understand, because
salvation is from the Jews. But the hour is coming, and is now here, when true
worshipers will worship the Father in Spirit and truth; and indeed the Father seeks
such people to worship him. God is Spirit, and those who worship him must worship
in Spirit and truth." The woman said to him, "I know that the Messiah is coming, the
one called the Christ; when he comes, he will tell us everything." Jesus said to her, "I
am he, the one who is speaking with you." Many of the Samaritans of that town began
to believe in him.
When the Samaritans came to him, they invited him to stay with them; and he stayed
there two days. Many more began to believe in him because of his word, and they said
to the woman, "We no longer believe because of your word; for we have heard for
ourselves, and we know that this is truly the savior of the world."
