As we ponder the mystery of God in the world, we marvel at God’s presence in all of creation and within us. Our world suffers from many problems, but God is with us in the struggle for healing, wholeness and health.

From the beginning, God poured out life as a river of love on all creation. In the fullness of time that love was revealed in Jesus Christ, the Incarnate Word. Each of us is invited to respond to the God of love—to speak our “Yes”--to make the love of Christ a real and tangible presence in the world each day.

How can we do this? God has already put the desire in us and awaits our response. Our “Yes” to God unleashes God’s power within us—the power to transforms all things from the bottom up and from the inside out. As we wait in hope for the fullness of the transformation of the world, we walk in solidarity with those who struggle. Just as Jesus did, we make the joys, hopes and sufferings of humanity our own.

Commitment to Justice and Peace

A flowing fountain of waterA Samaritan woman came up to draw water, and Jesus said to her, “Give me a drink.” “How is it that you, a Jew, ask a drink of me, a woman of Samaria?” “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that is saying to you “Give me a drink,” you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water. 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 to them a spring of water gushing up to eternal life.” The woman said, “Sir give me this water, so that I may never be thirsty or have to keep coming here to draw water.”

“Go call your husband and come back,” he said. “I have no husband.” Jesus said to her, “You are right in saying, ‘I have no husband’; for you have had five husbands, and the one you have now is not your husband. What you have said is true!” The woman said to him, “Sir, I see that you are a prophet. Our ancestors worshipped on this mountain, but you say that the place where people must worship is in Jerusalem.” Jesus said to her, “Woman, believe me, the hour is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know for salvation is from the Jews. But the hour is coming, and is now here when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father seeks such as these to worship him. God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.” The woman said, “I know the Messiah is coming” (who is called Christ). “When he comes, he will proclaim all things to us.” Jesus said to her, “I am he, the one who is speaking to you.”

Then the women left her water jar and went back to the city. She said to the people, “Come and see a man who told me everything I have ever done! He cannot be the Messiah, can he?”

Many Samaritans from that city believed in him because of the woman’s testimony, “He told me everything I have ever done.” And many more believed because of his word. (John 4: 7-43)