South Sudan's Challenge

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Healing & Reconciliation

Saturday, March 24, 2012

Short Reflection on the 5th Sunday of Lent (B)

Dhikr for the 5th Sunday of Lent (B)


“Amen, amen, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains just a grain of wheat; but if it dies, it produces much fruit.” (Jn. 12: 24)

In the coming days, mystery of “falling and dying” and “producing much fruit” will unfold in that event of Jesus’s dying for us and rising from the dead…

The martyrdom of OMI Missionaries in the Sulu Archipelago – Fr. Nelson Javellana, OMI, Jolo Bishop Benjami de Jesus, OMI, Fr. Benjamin Inocencio, OMI and Fr. Jesus Reynaldo Roda, OMI – reminds us of the real ‘falling and dying’….

DHIKR SIMPLE METHOD...
Dhikr is an Arabic word for remembrance. In the “tariqa” (the way) movement, dhikr developed into a form of prayer… It is a prayer of the heart… following three simple steps:

1.    Write in one’s heart a certain passage of the Holy Writ…
2.   Make the same passage ever present in one’s lips. 
3.   Then wait for God’s disclosure on the meaning of the passage…that interprets one’s life NOW…!

It takes a week of remembering (dhikr)…or even more days to relish the beauty of this method…


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