“She had heard about Jesus and came up behind him in the crowd and
touched his cloak. She said, ‘If I but touch his clothes, I shall be
cured.’ Immediately her flow of blood dried up. She felt in her body
that she was healed of her affliction.” (Mark 5: 27-29)
In our journey through life, we, too, have experiences of healing
touches… Like the woman in the gospel, we do say… ‘if but touch his
clothes, I shall be cured.’ And healing begins…!
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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…!
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WE HAVE A LOT TO LEARN FROM THE INDONESIAN ELECTIONS
by: Terence Mordeno Grana *
UPON invitation of Indonesian President B.J. Habibie, the Philippine government sent a 108-member delegation composed of National Movement for Free Election (NAMFREL) voluteers, headed by mission chief Chairman Jose Concepcion and deputy chief of mission Gen. Thelmo Cunanan, to observe the general elections held on June 7, 1999.
This writer was lucky to be among the volunteers sent to cover the first ever free electoral exercise of the Indonesians after 44 years since their last democratic elections were conducted.
At our arrival on June 3, while enroute to our hotel from the Sukarno-Hatta International airport in Jakarta, we already witnessed the throng of red-clad rallyists almost from all ages swarming the city streets. Eventually, we learned that it was the designated day for the PDI-Perjuangan (the party of Megawati Sukarnoputri) to hold its party rally prior to the v-day (voting day).
We saw party loyalists dancing on the streets and chanting their party hymn with gusto, a la EDSA people power revolution, demonstrating their full support to the party cause, but with discipline.
Consequently, Golkar (the administration party) held also their rally the next day, but it was not as festive as the PDI’s. Take note that that day, Friday, was the last day of the campaign period.
The good thing about their political campaigns is that, immediately after the campaign period ended, you can see no trace of any garbage on the streets and campaign posters pasted anymore on the walls, streets and bridges because party members immediately cleaned-up before the campaign period expired - this is one lesson that we Filipinos have to learn from the Indonesians.
Two days prior to the elections, we were deployed to our respective areas of assignment and I was among the 23 sent to East Java. We took the one-hour-and-a-half domestic flight from Jakarta to Surabaya, the capital city of the province. Four of us, a priest, a university dean, a businessman and myself, were assigned to a small city called Jember - a four-hour smooth land trip from Surabaya, and I was specifically tasked to cover 12 kecamatans (their version of towns).
With me in a team was an Indonesian driver, an interpreter and an election monitoring officer (EMO) from Forum Rektor, their local counterpart of our NAMFREL. I was issued a sophisticated communications equipment, a hi-tech handy phone to be used for my periodic reporting.
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