Jesus catechizes the Samaritan Woman at the well
On the Third Sunday of Lent, the beautiful Gospel from John 4:5-42, which has Jesus in dialogue with a Samaritan woman who comes to the well, may always be read. It is especially appropriate in Lent because the woman is seen as a type of the catechumen, who comes to know Christ to be the source of living water, a type of baptism. Just as the catechumen desires baptism, so this woman desire living water from Christ, and she became a preacher of the Gospel, so that many Samaritans came to recognize him as the Saviour of the world.
This painting of the scene is from the great medieval reredos in the Catedral Vieja of Salamanca. Finished in 1445, the reredos is attributed to Nicolas Florentino, and comprises 53 individual scenes from the life of Christ and the Blessed Virgin.
Jesus catechizes the Samaritan Woman at the well
On the Third Sunday of Lent, the beautiful Gospel from John 4:5-42, which has Jesus in dialogue with a Samaritan woman who comes to the well, may always be read. It is especially appropriate in Lent because the woman is seen as a type of the catechumen, who comes to know Christ to be the source of living water, a type of baptism. Just as the catechumen desires baptism, so this woman desire living water from Christ, and she became a preacher of the Gospel, so that many Samaritans came to recognize him as the Saviour of the world.
This painting of the scene is from the great medieval reredos in the Catedral Vieja of Salamanca. Finished in 1445, the reredos is attributed to Nicolas Florentino, and comprises 53 individual scenes from the life of Christ and the Blessed Virgin.