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girls just wanna have fun - cyndi lauper🎨fotini

''The episode with the Samaritan woman further reveals itself to be the Lord’s dialogue with the human soul, which at first resists, but afterwards submits and adores its Creator.

The Lord insisted that His victory should not be easy, as if self-evident, mechanical, or in an exemplary style; but rather free, spontaneous, springing from a conviction preceded by doubts, totally transforming the believer from Samaria.

In the final analysis, the act of faith is meant to be thus. It occurs—a thing understood only too well by Søren Kierkegaard—when the soul in prayer does not hear itself praying, but hears the Other confessing to it: “yes, you are not mistaken, yes, it is I, I the Living One, I who am He who is, Who calls you. Follow Me.” And the soul responds without hesitation: “Amen.”

,,The nobility of the Canaanite woman is revealed in faith, courage, perseverance, propriety, and intelligence. That of the Samaritan woman, through the way she surrenders, without reservations, with enthusiasm, after having first resisted with all the strength and skill of her mind. When the truth is revealed to her, she recognizes it and immediately draws all the consequences. Now is the time. No delay, no doubt, no shyness.

On the spot, she sets out to announce the Messiah, to proclaim His presence, to let everyone know what is happening in their lands, of what unimaginable honor they are being made worthy, from what improbable joy they are called to partake.

Just as Christ desires: those He calls, He wants to be His immediately, leaving everything behind, unstopped by any task, any consideration, or any other duty, be it ever so natural or pure. The field, the trade, the marriage, the burial: trifles, nugas!, as the ancient poet called them. The Samaritan woman, whom we are right to imagine as being looked upon with unfavorable eyes in her own town, no longer cares about what people say: even among her own (where it must have been harder for her, as it was for Jesus), she hurries to glorify the Lord, to be His servant and herald."

26 februarie: Sfânta Muceniță Fotini Samariteanca

Sfânta Muceniță Fotini Samariteanca l-a întâlnit pe Hristos la fântâna lui Iacov. Tradiția relatează că Apostolii au botezat-o cu numele de "Fotini", însemnând "cea iluminată". Zilele sale de sărbătoare sunt marcate pe 26 februarie, împreună cu cei care au suferit împreună cu ea, și în onoarea Femeii Samaritene.