First Reading
Exodus 17:3-7
In those days, in their thirst for water, the people grumbled against Moses, saying, “Why did you ever make us leave Egypt? Was it just to have us die here of thirst with our children and our livestock?” So Moses cried out to the LORD, “What shall I do with this people? a little more and they will stone me!”
The LORD answered Moses, “Go over there in front of the people, along with some of the elders of Israel, holding in your hand, as you go, the staff with which you struck the river. I will be standing there in front of you on the rock in Horeb. Strike the rock, and the water will flow from it for the people to drink.” This Moses did, in the presence of the elders of Israel. The place was called Massah and Meribah, because the Israelites quarreled there and tested the LORD, saying, “Is the LORD in our midst or not?”
This is the word of the Lord.
R. Thanks be to God.
Responsorial Psalm
Psalm 95:1-2, 6-7, 8-9 R. (8)
R. If today you hear his voice, harden not your hearts.
1. Come, let us sing joyfully to the LORD;
let us acclaim the Rock of our salvation.
Let us come into his presence with thanksgiving;
let us joyfully sing psalms to him.
R. If today you hear his voice, harden not your hearts.
2. Come, let us bow down in worship;
let us kneel before the LORD who made us.
For he is our God,
and we are the people he shepherds, the flock he guides.
R. If today you hear his voice, harden not your hearts.
3. Oh, that today you would hear his voice:
“Harden not your hearts as at Meribah,
as in the day of Massah in the desert,
Where your fathers tempted me;
they tested me though they had seen my works.”
R. If today you hear his voice, harden not your hearts.
Second Reading
Romans 5:1-2, 5-8
Brothers and sisters: Since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have gained access by faith to this grace in which we stand, and we boast in hope of the glory of God. And hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.
For Christ, while we were still helpless, died at the appointed time for the ungodly. Indeed, only with difficulty does one die for a just person, though perhaps for a good person one might even find courage to die. But God proves his love for us in that while we were still sinners Christ died for us.
This is the word of the Lord.
R. Thanks be to God.
Verse Before the Gospel
John 4:42, 15 Lord, you are truly the Savior of the world; give me living water, that I may never thirst again.
Gospel
John 4:5-42
Jesus came to a town of Samaria called Sychar. Jacob’s well was there. Jesus, tired from his journey, sat down there. A woman of Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give me a drink.” The Samaritan woman said to him, “How can you, a Jew, ask me, a Samaritan woman, for a drink?”
Jesus answered and said to her, “If you knew the gift of God and who is saying to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him and he would have given you living water.” The woman said, “Sir, you do not even have a bucket; where then can you get this living water?” Jesus answered, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again; but 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.” The woman said, “Sir, give me this water.”
Jesus said to her, “Go call your husband.” She answered, “I do not have a husband.” Jesus replied, “You are right; for you have had five husbands, and the one you have now is not your husband.” The woman said, “Sir, I can see that you are a prophet. Our ancestors worshiped on this mountain; but you people say that the place to worship is in Jerusalem.” Jesus said, “The hour is coming when true worshipers will worship the Father in Spirit and truth. I am the Messiah, the one speaking with you.”
The woman left her water jar and told the people, “Come see a man who told me everything I have done.” Many Samaritans began to believe in him. They invited him to stay, and he stayed there two days. They said to the woman, “We no longer believe because of your word; for we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this is truly the savior of the world.”
This is the Gospel of the Lord.
R. Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ.