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The First Scrutiny
RCIA: March 24, 2019
Spirituality of the Readings

John Foley, SJ

Thirsty

Love. This is a primordial need. Very like the need for water in this respect. But it is “a God-sized hole” within us, a yearning for the greatest love there is.

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In Exile

Ron Rolheiser

On Being One With The Saints In Praising God

We are one with the saints in singing God’s praises when we radiate God’s wide compassion; when, like God, we let our love embrace beyond race, creed, gender, religion, ideology, and differences of every kind.

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Glancing Thoughts

Eleonore Stump

Worthless Women

The Samaritan woman has had five husbands—five husbands!—and she is currently living with a man to whom she is not married. Even by the lax standards of our own day, this sort of history would make people look askance at her.

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The Perspective of Justice

Gerald Darring

Softening the Heart

On the one hand, there is the Rock from which the water of eternal life flows (God). On the other hand, there are rocks (our hearts) which we seek to soften in Lent by “prayer, fasting and works of mercy.”

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Discussion Questions

Anne Osdieck

Deserts of Life

In the desert, filled with thirsty panic, the Israelites grumbled that God was not with them. Can you relate to this situation in some way?

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A Poem to Sit With

J. Janda

The Remembrance 

“Be still, be silent

I understand you”

he said

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