It Was About The Sixth Hour

" 'Jesus, wearied as He was with His journey. . . .' (Jn 4:6).
The image is profoundly moving:
the weariness of a wayfaring Jesus:
Christ, the Image of the Father, journeying in search of man.


The Church gives us this particular Gospel
of the weary, wayfaring Christ
to show us that the journey of Christ through Samaria
reveals the Father's journey towards us
in in the journey of the Son to Mount Calvary
by the Via Dolorosa, the Way of Sorrows,

The Son's midday halt at Jacob's well
prefigures His midday halt
of three hours on the Cross
and the cry from His parched lips
revealing the Father's burning desire:
"I thirst." (Jn 19:28) " - Dom Mark Daniel Kirby, OSB