THE KINGDOM IS WITHIN YOU SON, ALL I HAVE IS YOURS THE KINGDOM IS WITHIN YOU Cycle C Músic: Advent Cantata 36 (J.S. Bach)

The Kingdom is within you Lk 17:21 Watch and pray at all times Have no fear, little flock Lk 12:32 God reveals to the small ones All that is mine is yours Lk 15:31 The Father loves the prodigal son and ALL others Key thoughts of this Gospel:

1st SUNDAY Walk ensuring to keep us standing on the day of his coming 2nd SUNDAY Breaking into John the Baptist’s road 3rd SUNDAY God walks toward us to find us 4th SUNDAY Let us go with Mary to visit us Way of the wilderness of Judah

Will we pave the way for Him to come? Wilderness of Judah

Lk 3:1-6 In the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of the region of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene, 2 during the high priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, the word of God came to John the son of Zechariah in the wilderness. Images of the desert of Judah, where John preached

John conveys the Word in each Advent Many words don't let us hear the essential Word Wilderness of Judah (in the background the Dead Sea)

And he went into all the region around the Jordan, proclaiming a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins.

John prepares the arrival of change Without prophets, the changes are superficial makeovers Jordan

As it is written in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet, "The voice of one crying in the wilderness: 'Prepare the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.

It is to start over, from the beginning, when we are tired and we lack strength Open a new route is very important, but difficult Churches in the place of the preaching of John

Every valley shall be filled

The new road must raise the living in the valleys It is essential to move towards equality Barracks in the desert

and every mountain and hill shall be made low,

Herod had 2 palaces in the desert of Judah (with underpasses) to be useful, in winter, the good climate of this desert Any mountain shall be made low Those who live at the top, must learn to share their life with those of below

and the crooked shall become straight, and the rough places shall become level ways, and all flesh shall see the salvation of God.'"

“God is incarnated to save the equal one with the equal” (G. Nazianzus) When we live in equality we ALL meet the same God

Lord, grant that we may open ways of equality for ALL

Nuns of St. Benet de Montserrat