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. Literal meaning Where? Matthew 21 – In Jerusalem, in the Temple
When? During the last week of his life
What? A parable
Who? Jesus, the chief priests and elders of the people
How? Jesus recalls the history of salvation through a parable
Why? Calling Israel to repentance and to faith in him

4. History of Salvation ‘Listen’ – parable filled with tragic irony
Creation
Israel / Jerusalem
The Prophets
The Son
The Judgement

5. Finding God The landowner – claims everything Absent and present
Hidden and revealed
Patient and just
Failing and victorious

6. Finding the human person
Entrusted with the vineyard / the Word
Called to work
Called to serve
Called to obey
Called to bear fruit

7. Built on the Corner Stone which is Christ
Finding the Church
The work of God
Entrusted to us
Producing fruit
Built on the Corner Stone which is Christ

9. 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.

10. Acknowledgments
Mosaics artworks: © Fr Marko Rupnik and Centro Aletti
With gratitude to the Wednesday Word