1. Wednesday Gospel Webinar
Portsmouth Diocese – Formation for Mission

2. Come Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of your faithful and kindle in them the fire of your love. Send forth your Spirit and they shall be created. And You shall renew the face of the earth.
O, God, who by the light of the Holy Spirit, did instruct the hearts of the faithful, grant that by the same Holy Spirit we may be truly wise and ever enjoy His consolations, Through Christ Our Lord, Amen.

3. Sunday 14th May 2017 5th Sunday of Easter John 14:1-12
Jesus said to his disciples:
‘Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God still, and trust in me. There are many rooms in my Father’s house; if there were not, I should have told you. I am going now to prepare a place for you, and after I have gone and prepared you a place, I shall return to take you with me; so that where I am you may be too. You know the way to the place where I am going.’
Thomas said, ‘Lord, we do not know where you are going, so how can we know the way?’ Jesus said: ‘I am the Way, the Truth and the Life. No one can come to the Father except through me. If you know me, you know my Father too. From this moment you know him and have seen him.’

4. Sunday 14th May 2017 5th Sunday of Easter John 14:1-12
Philip said, ‘Lord, let us see the Father and then we shall be satisfied.’
‘Have I not been with you all this time, Philip,’ said Jesus to him ‘and you still do not know me?’ ‘To have seen me is to have seen the Father, so how can you say, “Let us see the Father”? Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words I say to you I do not speak as from myself: it is the Father, living in me, who is doing this work. You must believe me when I say that I am in the Father and the Father is in me; believe it on the evidence of this work, if for no other reason. I tell you most solemnly, whoever believes in me will perform the same works as I do myself, he will perform even greater works, because I am going to the Father.’

5. Literal meaning Where? John 14 – in the upper room
When? At the Last Supper – just before the Passion
What? Jesus gives his last teaching to his disciples
Who? Jesus, the apostles (but not Judas)
How? Jesus tells them about the Father, and so his own identity
Why? Jesus prepares them for the Passion and strengthens their faith

6. In the Light of the Resurrection…
Do not let your hearts be troubled
Trust in God still, and trust in me
I am going now to prepare a place for you
I am the Way, the Truth and the Life
No one can come to the Father except through me
Believe it on the evidence of this work

7. Finding God ‘To have seen me is to have seen the Father’
The revelation of the Father through the Son
Jesus Christ: the ‘visible’ of the invisible Father
The image of the unseen God

8. Finding the human person
Trust
Knowledge
Vision
Faith
Works

9. Performing the same works
Finding the Church
The Father’s House
Performing the same works
Even greater works

11. Mary, Virgin and Mother,
you who, moved by the Holy Spirit,
welcomed the word of life
in the depths of your humble faith:
as you gave yourself completely to the Eternal One,
help us to say our own “yes”
to the urgent call, as pressing as ever,
to proclaim the good news of Jesus.
Mother of the living Gospel,
wellspring of happiness for God’s little ones,
pray for us.
Amen. Alleluia.

12. Acknowledgments
Mosaics artworks: © Fr Marko Rupnik and Centro Aletti
Scripture: The CTS New Catholic Bible, Copyright © 2007 The Incorporated Catholic Truth Society
With gratitude to the Wednesday Word