South Sudan's Challenge

South Sudan's Challenge
Healing & Reconciliation

Saturday, May 31, 2008

Act Justly...

To “act justly” means much more than paying our debt and not staling from others. It means, above all, working to build a society that is just - a society in which the structures are just and the relationships of peoples are just. Some concrete examples are the following:

• Minorities are not discriminated;
• Migrants are respected;
• Women are not treated as second-class citizens;
• Wealth and labor are equitably distributed; and
• God’s creation is held as trust.

At the international level, the same kind of bias operates and as a result the poor countries lag behind further and further from the wealthy nations.

Remembrance Prayer for the 9th Sunday in Ordinary Time (A)

Dhikr for the 9th Sunday of Easter (A): True Disciple

Text: “Everyone who listens to these words of mine but does not act on them will be like a fool who built his house on sand. (Matthew 7: 26)

Meditation: The true test of discipleship is in the acting on the word of God. Words are not enough… we need to translate the words into actions!

DHIKR SIMPLE METHOD

Dhikr is an Arabic word which means REMEMBRANCE.
1st step: Write the text in your heart.
2nd step: Let the text remain always in on your lips and mind - RECITING the text silently as often as possible...
3rd step: Be attentive to the disclosure of the meaning/s of the text in your life.