Be amazed at this, O heavens, and shudder with sheer horror, says the LORD. Two evils have my people done: they have forsaken me, the source of living waters; They have dug themselves cisterns, broken cisterns, that hold no water. (Jer 2:1-3, 7-8, 12-13)
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Broken cisterns that hold no water . . . a fairly good description of us when our spiritual life runs dry. As the Psalmist reminds us: “With you is the fountain of life, O Lord.” No wonder Jesus says to the Samaritan Woman, “whoever drinks the water I shall give will never thirst; the water I shall give will become (in him) a spring of water welling up to eternal life.” Today’s picture is of the Fountain of Eternal Life in Cleveland, Ohio.
These reflections are a result of more than 40 years of ministry as a Roman Catholic priest. Most of these years I spent in the Diocese of Charlotte which covers Western North Carolina. Now I am retired, and live in Medellín, Colombia where I continue to serve as a priest in the Archdiocese of Medellín.
Thursday, Week XVI, Ordinary Time
