22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time (C)

Short Reflection for the 22^nd Sunday in Ordinary Time (C)

Readings: Sirach 3:17-18, 20, 28-29; Hebrews 12:18-19, 22-24a; Luke 14:1, 7-14.

Selected Passage:  "When you hold a lunch or a dinner, do not invite your friends or your brothers or your relatives or your wealthy neighbors, in case they may invite you back and you have repayment. Rather, when you hold a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, and the blind.” (Luke 14: 12-13)

Meditation:  The Gospel is a strong challenge to us and a reminder that the poor and the hungry must have places at our table else we are NO different from the Scribes and the Pharisees. .  If we invite only friends and kinfolks and the wealthy and the powerful, we have already received our rewards. So next time we throw a party, we simply ask whether the poor and the crippled are also fed else we simply follow convention.  The following of Jesus is NOT CONVENTION! BEWARE! Cf. www.badaliyya.blogspot.com

DHIKR SIMPLE METHOD...

1st step: Write the Dhikr (the Arabic word for REMEMBRANCE) in your heart.

2nd step: Let the Dhikr remain always in on your lips and mind - RECITING the Dhikr silently as often as possible...

3rd step:  Be attentive to the disclosure of the meaning/s of the
Dhikr in your life.