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 4: Near Sychar, Samaria, going to Galilee back from Jerusalem
When? After Jesus’ first public visit to Jerusalem in John – 6th hour
What? Conversation of Jesus with a Samaritan woman
Who? Jesus, Samaritan woman, disciples, people of Sychar
How? Jesus brings the woman to faith and she brings other to faith
Why? the Word is preached to the gentiles – gift of Living Water

4. ACCOUNT BREAKDOWN 4-6: introduction / context
7-15: ‘Give me a drink’ ‘give me some of that water’
16-19: ‘Go and call your husband’ ‘you are a prophet’
20-26: ‘Our fathers worshipped on this mountain’ ‘I am he.’
27-38: her mission / his mission / their mission
39-42: Samaritans believe thanks to the woman’s witness

5. Evangelising like Jesus
Initiative of Jesus
Person-centred
Awakening desire
Proclamation
From indifference to disciple to missionary

6. Finding God Jesus: the Giver of God’s gift Holy Spirit: the Gift
Trinity: Word (the one who speaks) + Water (Spirit)
Father adored in Spirit and Truth
Jesus reveals himself as the Messiah

7. Finding the human person
In Jesus we have everything:
God in Jesus fills the heart
of the Samaritan Woman.
She is transformed.
Physical needs
Relational needs
Intellectual needs
Spiritual needs

8. Jesus forms his disciples to do the same
Finding the Church
Samaritan woman: image of the Church (gentiles) who receives truth and grace from Jesus and transmits this treasure to others.
Baptism
Jesus forms his disciples to do the same

10. 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.

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