Creation, redemption, martyrdom

George Weigel, Catholic World Report

Thursday, April 11, 2019

God creates and redeems the world so that His holiness might be shared by a people empowered by grace to live holy lives. God’s thirst for the holiness of his people is liturgically manifest on the Fourth Sunday of Lent in Jesus’s thirst for the faith of the Samaritan woman, from whom he asks a drink of water.

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