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 25 – In Jerusalem, in the Temple
When? During the last week of his life – his last teaching
What? Prophecy
Who? Jesus and his disciples
How? Warning on the last judgement
Why? Jesus prepares his disciples for what is to come

4. The Last Judgement Not ‘if’ but ‘when’ Confirms OT prophecies
The Son of Man and his angels
Universal / conscience / thirst for justice
Sheep and goat
Right and left
Criteria of judgment: not the wrong, but the good present or absent.

5. Finding God
Identifies with poor: hungry, thirsty, stranger, naked, sick, in prison
Incarnation
Shepherd and Lamb
King revealed and hidden
Cross: judgement of the world
Communion of love

6. Finding the human person
Given unparalleled dignity
Given unparalleled finality
Made for God
‘a good towards which the only proper attitude is love’ JPII
Sin of omission

7. Finding the Church Body of Christ
Fed, watered, clothed, healed, and visited by Christ.
Feeds, waters, clothes, heals and visits in Christ.
Recognises 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