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? John 6 – in Capernaum – by the sea of Galilee
When? After the multiplication of the loaves
What? Discourse of the ‘Bread of Life’
Who? Jesus, Disciples, Jews, Crowd
How? Jesus teaches after having fed the crowds
Why? Jesus leads his disciples to deeper faith and union with him

4. Echoes of Israel’s sacred history
Bread from heaven – The Manna
Eat / will live for ever – The first commandment
Son of Man – God himself
Flesh / lives in me and I live in him – One flesh
Drink his blood – Blood is life
Eternal Life – The Tree of Life

5. Finding God The Tree of Life The Word made flesh The Son of Man
Eternal life is Jesus who gives us access to the Father through his Sacred Humanity

6. Finding the human person
A new commandment, echo of the first: EAT!
‘Man shall not live by bread alone,
but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.’

7. Finding the Church One Body of Christ
Communion with Father, Son and Holy Spirit, and with every member of Christ
The Sacrament of Love

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