Many Samaritans from that village began to believe in him because of the woman’s testimony: ‘He told me everything that I have done.’ So the Samaritans pressed him to stay with them, and he stayed there two days. And many more believed because of his word. And so they said to the woman ‘We do not believe any longer because of your report, for we have heard him ourselves, and we know that this is really the Saviour of the World.’

After these two days he left there for Galilee. Jesus himself had born witness that a prophet has no honour in his own homeland. So when he came to Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him, having seen everything that he had done in Jerusalem at the festival, for they too had gone to the festival.

Teach us, good Lord,
to serve thee as thou deservest;
to give and not to count the cost;
to fight and not to heed the wounds;
to toil and not to seek for rest;
to labour and not to ask for any reward,
save that of knowing that we do thy will,
through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Amen

St Ignatius