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. Jesus said to Nicodemus:
Sunday 11th June The Most Holy Trinity John 3:16-18
Jesus said to Nicodemus:
‘God loved the world so much that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not be lost but may have eternal life. For God sent his Son into the world not to condemn the world, but so that through him the world might be saved. No one who believes in him will be condemned; but whoever refuses to believe is condemned already, because he has refused to believe in the name of God’s only Son.’

4. Literal meaning Where? John 3 – in Jerusalem When? At night
What? Dialogue of Jesus with Nicodemus about eternal life
Who? Jesus, Nicodemus
How? Jesus teaches Nicodemus who came to him during the night
Why? Jesus reveals his identity and mission to Nicodemus

5. God’s movement / man’s response
Loved
Believes
Gave
Has eternal life
Sent
Refuses
Saved
Condemned

6. Finding God The Blessed Trinity
God revealed in his work: ‘Economy’ of salvation
God as he is in Himself: ‘Immanent’ Trinity

8. Finding the human person
The response of Faith:
A decision freely made through grace

9. The Son is given to us by the Father through the Spirit.
Finding the Church
The communion of faith in the only Son of the Father through the Holy Spirit.
The Son is given to us by the Father through the Spirit.

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