Our Lord and Master, Christ, when on earth, among other mercies, leaving us an example to follow His steps, stopped, on one of His journeys, at a city of the Samaritans called Sychar. There, wearied with the walk and the noontide heat, he sat thus by the well side, near the city, and, thirsty, he asked of a Samaritan woman, who came to draw water, Give me to drink. And He improved the occasion to converse with her and to instruct her and her townspeople, who at her invitation came out to see that stranger, who, though a Jew, had not shunned but sought them; in that salvation He came from Heaven to effect and teach. When the woman said, I know that the Messias cometh, who is called Christ: when He cometh He will tell us all things, Jesus said with holy dignity, I am He who am speaking to thee. Now, these Samaritans were very ignorant, separate from the then (the Old Testament) Church of God, and very hostile to the Jews, as these were to them. But our Lord sought them, conversed with them, and blessed them. He stopped with them two days. Hatred, contempt, and prejudice were not in Him. And thus He gives us a lesson not to despise or stand aloof from any because they are ignorant, or not of our Church, or may show dislike or hatred of us and our religion. Be kind as you have opportunity to every one. Seek to do every one good, by word and act, and thus to win and gain them over to the best way, the service of God our Saviour, who will have all men to be saved, and to come to the knowledge of the truth.
- text taken from Daily Bread - Bring a Few Morning Meditations for the Use of Catholic Christians by Father Richard Waldo Sibthorp