South Sudan's Challenge

South Sudan's Challenge
Healing & Reconciliation

Saturday, March 2, 2013

3rd Sunday of Lent (C)


The Dhikr for the 3rd Sunday in Lent (C)
Selected Passage:  'For three years now I have come in search of fruit on this fig tree but have found none. (So) cut it down. Why should it exhaust the soil?' (Luke 13: 7)
Reflection:  Years have we been living on this earth, yet the same question is asked of us… do we bear fruit for others?  Beware… else we too are cut down! Why should we exhaust the soil when we neither bear fruit nor give shade for others to reap…
DHIKR PRAYER 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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