Gospel: for Year C: Luke 13:1-9
Commentaries on the Scripture: Pope Francis Homilies on The Parable of the Fig Tree
Commentaries on the Scripture: Sr. Patricia Bruno OP : Parable of the Fig Tree: Luke 13: 6-9
Commentary: Sunday Connection: Third Sunday of Lent, Cycle C Loyola Press
Art: Alexey Pismenny, Parable of the Fruitless Fig Tree, 2008
Commentary on the Art: Loyola Press
Art: Lloyd Rees, Port Jackson Fig Tree
Commentary on the art from christian.art
Gospel for Year A (First Scrutiny): John 4: 5-16, 19-26, 39-42
Commentary Pope Francis Angelus March 23 2014
Video clip from The Chosen
Art: Il Guercino The Samaritan Woman
Source: Guercino_-_Jesus_and_the_Samaritan_Woman_at_the_Well_-_WGA10946.jpg
Commentary: Les Miller, Visio Divina as a Lenten Prayer Practice (Features this painting)
Art: Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller, Christ and the Samaritan Woman at the Well
Commentary on the art – christian.art
Art: Woman at Jacob’s Well Sieger Koder
Video Commentary: Michael Burley on The Woman at Jacob’s Well by Sieger Koder
Poem: Song of the Brightness of Water, a poem written by Karol Wojtyla (Pope St. John Paul II), on the Samaritan woman’s reflections after her encounter with Jesus at the well. (John 4).
From this depth—I came only to draw water
in a jug—so long ago, this brightness
still clings to my eyes—the perception I found,
and so much empty space, my own,
reflected in the well.
Yet it is good. I can never take all of you
into me. Stay then as mirror in the well.
Leaves and flowers remain, and each astonished gaze
brings them down
to my eyes transfixed more by light
than by sorrow.
See also our Visio Divina page for more about the process of this form of prayer
