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? Mark 1 – in the wilderness
When? Straight after his baptism
What? Jesus is tempted in the desert
Who? The Spirit, Jesus, Satan, wild beasts, the angels
How? For forty days
Why? For us

4. Recapitulation / re-creation
Wilderness
Holy Spirit
Forty Days
Satan
Temptation
Wild beasts
Angels

5. Finding God The Holy Spirit Untouched by Evil
Lord of visible and invisible creation
Suffers for us, in our flesh
Victorious for us, in our flesh

6. Finding the human person
Incorporated into Christ
through Baptism
Victorious in Christ
through repentance and faith
Life in the Holy Spirit
Master of visible creation
Served by angels: Mary

7. Finding the Church The new creation in Christ The kingdom of God
Re-ordered through grace
The communion of the baptised
Victorious over Satan
Serves the Lord with the angels

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