Today we leave the Holy City looking for water in the desert, we try to see Jesus and we ask him to help us not to fall into temptation
Asi fue que llegamos a la tierra de Sammer donde vivieron los Samaritanos. Estos eran judíos que fueron desterrados de Jerusalén por tener sangre mezclada y no ser considerados puros. Estamos hablando del ańo 500 AC cuando Jacob perforó un pozo de agua que llega hasta nuestros días.
So we arrived in the land of Sammer where the Samaritans lived. These were Jews who were exiled from Jerusalem for having mixed blood and not being considered pure. We are talking about the year 500 BC when Jacob drilled a well of water that reaches our days. It happened here that the Lord passed with his disciples and tired and asked them to come to the village to get some food, while these returned to the well of Jacob, where the Lord rested and Jesus asked a Samaritan woman who was there This, in and of itself, was very rare since the Jews did not speak (or speak to each other today) with the Samaritans.
This is where the Lord offers you “Living Water” (John 4) The “Well of Jacob” is 73 meters deep, it is still a spring of fresh water in the desert. The Samaritan Faith is still alive having its cult at the top of Mount Jerezin. This is a place that reaffirms the Old Testament as well as the New, since you can see the vessel of the woman who was looking for water. The well is inside an Orthodox Church but very willingly allowed us to enter. We continue our pilgrimage to Jericho where that tax collector eager to meet Jesus climbed the sycamore.
We tried to understand Zacchaeus, he was an Israeli working for the Romans, this was synonymous with treason, then although surely his economy did not suffer problems would undoubtedly be frowned upon by his peers and it is very likely that neither he nor his family could have friends.
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Because of his work, Jericó being another collection point, like Capernaum, every merchant who came from that city brought comments about Jesus. This led him to want to know the Master who would change his life. (Lc 19)
Here we celebrate the Eucharist remembering with great emotion that the Lord deigned to enter the house of Zacchaeus as well as ours.
We continue going through the desert until we reach Monte de las Tentaciones, where the Lord was taken to receive his last temptation (Mt 4).
Here there is an Orthodox Monastery built in 1200, and nestled among the caves that were inhabited since ancient times by hermits.
There is also a small house of spiritual exercises, and there is the cave and the stone that recalls the place where the Lord was tempted.
In this place we read the word and listen to a reflection of the priest who guides the pilgrimage. It was a deep, intense and without a doubt the most introspective moment since we could see the temptations to which we are exposed daily.
We end the day arriving in Bethlehem to celebrate the Child that was born here.
Until next time!
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