
November 8, 2014: Beautiful Bride
‘Chastity means the successful integration of sexuality within the person…’(CCC 2337) When Jesus first looked upon His Samaritan ‘bride’, He saw a disintegrated woman, both sexually and spiritually. She was neither united in her worship of the true and living God, nor was she chaste. Many gods and lovers had fractured her integrity as a person. Jesus saw her as she was but also what she could be. His gift of living water promised to quench her deepest thirst, to dissolve fals