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Monsignor Pope Ping!

[Steelfish]

Nice post. Thanks

[Tax-chick]

I remembered the movie scene, in general, from when I saw the movie in the theater when it came out (with my aunt Kathleen, namesake of my baby girl). It made me cry then and still does.

What an example of how the church should react when sinners come in with open hearts! I noticed how the soloist in the choir looked annoyed, at first, but then got a big smile and joined in with the response, letting Shug do the call. And the welcome from her father, the pastor. The only slightly false - entirely human - note is the resigned look on her mother’s face.

[Baldwin77]

Don’t forget that Jesus also told her, “GO THOU, AND SIN NO MORE.”

People tend to forget that part.

[lightman]

Saint Photine was the Samaritan Woman who encountered Christ our Saviour at Jacob's Well (John 4:1-42). Afterwards she laboured in the spread of the Gospel in various places, and finally received the crown of martyrdom in Rome with her two sons and five sisters, during the persecutions under the Emperor Nero.

Apolytikion of Photine, the Samaritan Women in the Third Tone

All illumined by the Holy Spirit, thou didst drink with great and ardent longing of the waters Christ Saviour gave unto thee; and with the streams of salvation wast thou refreshed, which thou abundantly gavest to those athirst. O Great Martyr and true peer of Apostles, Photine, entreat Christ God to grant great mercy unto us.

Kontakion of Photine, the Samaritan Women in the Third Tone

Photine the glorious, the crown and glory of the Martyrs, hath this day ascended to the shining mansions of Heaven, and she calleth all together to sing her praises, that they might be recompensed with her hallowed graces. Let us all with faith and longing extol her gladly in hymns of triumph and joy.