1. Megiddo, important old city in the north of Samaria
SUNDAYS
SUNDAY 14
THE KINGDOM IS AMONG YOU
THE KINGDOM IS AMONG YOU
GOSPEL TO LuKE
GOSPEL TO LuKE
“Laudate pueri”, choir boys of Montserrat, make us feel the joy of the littles

2. The city of Megiddo (Samaria in Jesus’s times) of 7
The city of Megiddo (Samaria in Jesus’s times) of BC, was a very important center along centuries. The Apocalipsis gives it the name of “Armaguedon”, placing there the “last judgement”.In the I century allreaddy was a pile of ruins, who Jesus and the disciples probably had to cross many times for it was a crossroads.
Samaria

3. Lk 10: The Lord appointed seventy-two others and sent them out ahead of him in pairs, to all the towns and places he himself would be visiting. And he said to them, 'The harvest is rich but the laborers are few, so ask the Lord of the harvest to send laborers to do his harvesting.  

4. When Jesus’s times are finishing, the 72 had to learn to sow the Master’s fields
They have to sow seeds of genuineness, of liberty, of nobility, of eternal vàlues.
Fields around Megiddo

5. Start off now, but look, I am sending you out like lambs among wolves
Start off now, but look, I am sending you out like lambs among wolves. Take no purse with you, no haversack, no sandals. Salute no one on the road.

6. We carry nothing, only the essential love of God
With little baggage,
but loaded with the bundle of much esteem
Megiddo’s altar, the most antique on bíblic lands

7. Whatever house you enter, let your first words be, "Peace to this house!“ And if a man of peace lives there, your peace will go and rest on him; if not, it will come back to you. Stay in the same house, taking what food and drink they have to offer, for the laborer deserves his wages;

8. If we carry the Peace at heart, we will give it up without words
At the bottom, mountains of Gelboe
If we carry the Peace at heart, we will give it up without words
“Where hatred is I will put love» (F. of Assisi) ...even in politics or in life

9. do not move from house to house
do not move from house to house. Whenever you go into a town where they make you welcome, eat what is put before you. Cure those in it who are sick, and say, "The kingdom of God is very near to you."

10. Entry door to the city
The Kingdom is so near us, that his door is always open, and it needs only to enter
But the door of the Kingdom is so thin, that we can pass away, without even been aware

11. But whenever you enter a town and they do not make you welcome, go out into its streets and say, "We wipe off the very dust of your town that clings to our feet, and leave it with you. Yet be sure of this: the kingdom of God is very near.“ I tell you, on the great Day it will be more bearable for Sodom than for that town.

12. Watering place to the service of animals, near the main road
Although sometimes they refuse you, keep giving up your life for the Kingdom. The one who serves is more important that the one who seats at the table (Lc 22,27)
Giving up life is to make available to others, the little or very much we have.
Watering place to the service of animals, near the main road

13. The seventy-two came back rejoicing
The seventy-two came back rejoicing. 'Lord,' they said, 'even the devils submit to us when we use your name.' He said to them, 'I watched Satan fall like lightning from heaven. Look, I have given you power to tread down serpents and scorpions and the whole strength of the enemy; nothing shall ever hurt you. Yet do not rejoice that the spirits submit to you; rejoice instead that your names are written in heaven.‘

14. Do not be glad to see the bad ones collapsed underground.
Be happy to have the names written in God’s heart
Underground aqueduct of Megiddo

15. Grant us, Lord, to make the Way of this KINGDOM with joy

16. Nuns of S. Benedict of Montserrat www. monestirsantbenetmontserrat
Nuns of S. Benedict of Montserrat