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 5 – up the hill
When? After giving his disciples their identity as salt and light
What? The Sermon on the Mount: revisiting the commandments
Who? Jesus, joined by his disciples (and the crowds?)
How? The Law is authoritatively interpreted by Jesus
Why? Jesus unfolds and fulfils the law of the Kingdom of God

4. The Law What Law? The Ten Commandments – necessary and good.
How does Jesus complete / fulfil the Law?
Radical interpretation given from the Author of the Law
The journey from outward to inward: anger / lust / lying
The faithfulness to the Law through transforming grace

5. Natural Law Human Law Divine Law (10 commandments) New Law Eternal Law
The Law
Natural Law
Human Law
Divine Law (10 commandments)
New Law
Eternal Law

6. Jesus reveals himself as:
Finding God
Jesus reveals himself as:
The Messiah: ‘I have come…’
God the Creator / Lawgiver
Man: the new Adam who fulfils the Law perfectly

7. Finding the human person
Jesus reveals:
The sacredness of the human person
The human person as the finality of love / the nature of spousal love
The demands of our capacity to know and communicate truth
Our own dignity and greatness

8. The locus of the New Law / of our new creation in grace
Finding the Church
The locus of the New Law / of our new creation in grace
The Kingdom of Heaven

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. Alleluia!

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