🇮🇱 🇻🇦 Saint Photina Feast: 20 March

Saint Photina
Evangelist (c 1st Century Anno Domin A.D.)       Feast: 20 March

The story of the Samaritan woman at the well is one of the several occasions in the Gospels in which an "outsider" became an important witness to the Good News. In this story Jesus , as he passed through the land of the Samaritans, took rest beside a village well, where he asked a woman to give him a drink

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At first Photina was astonished As a woman and a Samaritan - a people despised by the Jews for their unorthodox religious practice - she anticipated scorn. But Jesus spoke in a puzzling way, saying that if she knew sho was asking for a drink, "You would have asked him and he would have given you living water." A conversation about water quickly turned to the woman's own existential thirst for a deeper life: "Sir," she said, "give me this water, that I may not thirst"

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Then, touching on intimate matters, Jesus asked her to call her husband. "I have no husband," she said. This is true, he said, "for you have had five husbands, and he whom you now have is not your husband." This seemed to open up for her the whole story of her life, a life that evidently left her thirsting for something more. She dared to interview him about religious matter, including the coming Messiah. He replied, "I who speak to you am he."

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Suddenly an ordinary well in the heat of the day had become holy ground. A woman burdened by shame had become a different person. Immediately she went to tell everyone about what had happened. "Can this be the Christ?" And many Samaritans from that day "believed in him because of the woman's testimony." A miracle in itself.

"He told me everything I ever did." - John 4:39

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Παρακλητικός Κανών στην Αγία Φωτεινή τη Σαμαρείτιδα (Α και Γ ωδή)

"Petitionary Canon to Saint Fotini the Samaritan (Ode A and C)"

Ψάλλει ο Χορός Ψαλτών Χίου (κλιμάκιο).

Χοράρχης Ηρακλής Μαλανδρίνος

Η ηχογράφηση έγινε στη Χίο το 2019

"The Chant Dance of Chios sings (scale).

Choir chief Iraklis Malandrinos

The recording took place in Chios in 2019"