I love this Gospel story. And I love Msgr Pope. Our priest yesterday pointed out one of element that I had never thought of - in a desert, people go to the well in the morning and in the evening, not at noon. Why did she go then? Was she avoiding someone? Did the villagers deny her access at the more pleasant times of the day? I also focused on the fact that Jesus was thirsty and asked her for water. Why? One of Blessed Mother Teresa’s teachings was that Jesus thirsts for our love, our souls.
This is one of the questions that I posed in yesterday’s thread.
She went at noon because she was an outcast among the women who would get water in the early morning.
They didn’t want her with them, and she didn’t want to be ignored by them.