3rd Sunday: Walking Through Lent with Our Creator Scriptural Reflections

Read: Exodus 17:3-7* and pray or journal: what word or phrase speaks to your emotion or intellect?

Read: the provided reflection (below) and pray or journal: what speaks to your emotion or intellect and what might you do?

In their thirst for water, the people grumbled… After feeling concerned about possible PFAS in our drinking water, we recently installed a water filter. I’m not going to lie, it tastes amazing. Clean drinking water has been an issue on tap, so to speak, since before the days of Moses. And why shouldn’t it be? It comprises about 60% of our bodies and we can only live about 3 days without it. The good news is 73% of the global population has access to clean drinking water . The bad news is 27% don’t. It’s a worldwide issue, and also a local one: in Milwaukee, drinking water can contain lead , leading to all kinds of issues for children’s brain development. Water contamination could even make a person grumble.

Somewhere along the way we thought we’d quench our thirst with bottled water, but, while it may be convenient, this is a false solution. Unlike tap water, bottled water is not regulated , and the process of producing, transporting, distributing and disposing of bottles is harmful to our common home.

This Lent, I invite you to join me in learning about water contamination or bottled water from one of the sources linked above, and while you’re at it, spread the word! Blessings, Kate

*This passage is from Year A readings, which are used when the scrutines are celebrated with the elect. If there are no elect, we will hear Year B readings proclaimed at Mass.