Magandang araw po sa inyong lahat, we are now in the 3rd Sunday of Lent.

In our Gospel today we hear the conversation of Jesus and the Samaritan woman, who in the end came to
believe in Him and even attracted her fellow Samaritans to believe also on the basis of her words and of their own
experience of Jesus’ words.

Kung ating babalikan ang unang pagtatagpo ni Hesus at ng babaeng Samaritana, nang humingi si Hesus ng
tubig sa kanya, ang kanyang naging tugon ay para bang hindi kaaya-aya, sarcastic ang dating, how can you, a Jew, ask
me, a Samaritan woman, for a drink? At may kasama ding pagtataka.

Maybe because the woman knows how the Jews hated the Samaritans and talking with any woman in a public
place was looked upon with disapproval in the Jewish culture.

Subalit, hindi pinansin ni Hesus ang sinabi ng Babae, siya ay nagpatuloy at hindi nagpakita ng anumang bahid
ng panghuhusga at pang-mamaliit, and this started a friendship that leads the Samaritan woman to believe.

May mga pagkakataon din sa ating buhay na tila ba mahirap nating paniwalaan ang mensahe ng Diyos sa atin
sa pamamagitan ng mga nakapaligid sa atin, ang ating pamilya, mga kaibigan, ka-trabaho o mga kasama sa
organisasyong ating kinabibilangan kapag tayo ay nakakaranas ng unos at problema, dahil na-unahan tayo ng pag-
aalinlangan at pagdududa.

Sa tagpo ng kwento ng ating ebanghelyo ngayon ay atin ding nakita kung paano unti-unting ipinahayag ni
Hesus sa babaeng Samaritana kung sino siya.

Sa bawat yugto din ng pagkakataon sa ating pang araw-araw na buhay ay ipinapahayag sa atin ng Diyos kung
sino siya at ang kanyang mensahe para sa atin – His message of unconditional love to us and we only need to respond
to His call of love and express it in our deeds, words and actions with simplicity, beauty and nobility in our spirit.

The encounter of the Samaritan woman with Jesus at the well of Jacob is also our own encounter with Him
and at the same time His invitation to us to enter into a personal and intimate union with Him.

Ang mensahe ni Hesus na nagpahayag sa kanyang pagiging Diyos na nagbibigay- buhay ay ang mensaheng
pinaniwalaan ng Babaeng Samaritana at tumimo sa kanyang puso at isipan na naging daan upang siya ay
panampalataya kay Hesus at ipahayag si Hesus sa iba.

Ang bawat isa sa atin ay iniimbitahan ni Hesus, Step-by-step to recognize Him and love Him in return and be
converted like the Samaritan woman who became Jesus’ disciple and through her experience with Him many were
converted and believed in Jesus.

Indeed, to evangelize is to share our own encounter and experience with Jesus to others regardless of our race,
culture, and status in life.

Let us go back to our first encounter and experience with Jesus in our life and share it with others.

Sa muli isang magandang araw po sa inyong lahat.