4th Sunday in Ordinary Time (B)

Short Reflection for the 4th Sunday in the Ordinary Time (B) Readings: Deuteronomy 18: 1-20; 1 Corinthians 7: 32-35; Mark 1: 21-28 Selected Passage: “The people were astonished at his teaching, for he taught them as one having authority and not as the scribes.” (Mk.1: 22) Meditation: The Gospel invites to reflect on the meaning, “to teach as one having authority”. There are two sources of this authority – first, Jesus proclamation of the reign of God was seen both in his words and deeds; second, his great love for each one of us. And he calls us his friends and he would lay down his life as ransom that we may have life to the full. www.badaliyya.blogspot.com 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…