Archive for January 2015

Week of Prayer for Christian Unity 2015: Day Seven, “Give me to drink”

Jan 24th, 2015 | By | Category: Blog Posts

A Samaritan woman came to draw water, and Jesus said to her, ‘Give me a drink’. (His disciples had gone to the city to buy food.) The Samaritan woman said to him, “How is it that you, a Jew, ask a drink of me, a woman of Samaria?” (Jews do not share things in common […]



Week of Prayer for Christian Unity 2015: Day Six, “The water that I will give will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life”

Jan 23rd, 2015 | By | Category: Blog Posts

Jesus said to her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, but those who drink of the water that I will give them will never be thirsty. The water that I will give will become in them a spring of water gushing up to eternal life.” The woman said to him, “Sir, […]



Week of Prayer for Christian Unity 2015: Day Five, “You have no bucket and the well is deep”

Jan 22nd, 2015 | By | Category: Blog Posts

The woman said to him, “Sir, you have no bucket, and the well is deep. Where do you get that living water? Are you greater than our ancestor Jacob, who gave us the well, and with his sons and his flocks drank from it?” Jesus said to her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will […]



Week of Prayer for Christian Unity 2015: Day Four, “Then the woman left her water jar”

Jan 21st, 2015 | By | Category: Blog Posts

Just then his disciples came. They were astonished that he was speaking with a woman, but no one said, “What do you want?” or, “Why are you speaking with her?” Then the woman left her water jar and went back to the city. She said to the people, “Come and see a man who told […]



Week of Prayer for Christian Unity 2015: Day Two, “Tired of the journey, Jesus sat down facing the well”

Jan 19th, 2015 | By | Category: Blog Posts

Now when Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard, “Jesus is making and baptizing more disciples than John’— although it was not Jesus himself but his disciples who baptized— he left Judea and started back to Galilee. But he had to go through Samaria. So he came to a Samaritan city called Sychar, near the […]



Week of Prayer for Christian Unity 2015: Day One, “It is necessary to go through Samaria”

Jan 18th, 2015 | By | Category: Blog Posts

Now when Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard, ‘Jesus is making and baptizing more disciples than John’— although it was not Jesus himself but his disciples who baptized— he left Judea and started back to Galilee. But he had to go through Samaria. So he came to a Samaritan city called Sychar, near the […]



Basil and Gregory: An Appeal to Protestants From Friendship

Jan 1st, 2015 | By | Category: Blog Posts

A reflection on the importance of friendship in ecumenical dialogue in honor of the feast day of St. Basil of Caesarea and St. Gregory Nazianzus, two early Church Fathers with a deep and life-long friendship.