But, before we can continue with this storyline, we need to talk about the disciples, who come back at the most awkward moment. They’d been buying food, you see, and now when they show up, they have the shock of their lives. Just like the woman was shocked that Jesus would speak to her, the disciples are equally shocked. What on earth is Jesus doing, talking to this woman?
Have you run across the TV show called The Great British Bake Off? Multiple amateur contestants try to impress the judges with their creations. Anything from cake that looks like a beaver to pastries that look like fruit, to whatever else. There’s other shows that do the same thing – always a contest of some sort – with varying degrees of success. For those who are still too amateurish to get onto a show like this, they will often post their attempts to recreate something from one of these shows and usually in the form of a before and after picture – an “expectation” picture versus the “reality” of what they created. Usually, the reality is far from the expectation.
Sacred People, Sacred Spaces
If we look at the first reading today, the passage from the Acts of the Apostles, we find that Jesus has told his disciples that he will be leaving them, and then he ordered them to wait in Jerusalem for the promise from the Father. He tells them that they will be baptized by the…
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