Heidi Overfelt

Greetings in the name of Our Lord! This Sunday, our gospel lesson recalls the story of the Samaritan woman who asks Jesus for water. She is at Jacob's well and her request is rather shocking because fetching water was womens work. In an image of our thirst for God, Jesus offers her living water, a sign of God’s grace flowing from the waters of baptism. The early church used this gospel and those of the next two Sundays to deepen baptismal reflection during the final days of preparation before...

May God be with you all as we begin our 40 day Lenten journey! This is a season for renewal and reevaluation of priorities. It is also a time for repentance. This week’s gospel tells of Jesus’ temptation in the desert. His forty day fast becomes the basis of our Lenten pilgrimage. In the early church Lent was a time of intense preparation for those to be baptized at the Easter Vigil. This catechetical focus on the meaning of faith is at the heart of our Lenten journey to the baptismal waters...