3rd Sunday of Easter (A) - Breaking Bread with Srangers

Short Reflection for the 3^rd Sunday of Easter (A): “Break Bread with the Stranger”

Readings: Acts 2: 14, 22-33; 1 Peter 1: 17-21; Luke 24: 13-35

Selected Passage: But they urged him, "Stay with us, for it is nearly evening and the day is almost over." So he went in to stay with them. (Luke 24: 29)

Meditation: The key to the recognition of the Risen Lord is sharing shelter with the stranger and breaking one’s bread with stranger.  The two disciples shared their abode and table with the stranger.  This is the same challenge to us all – if we are to recognize the Risen Lord.  In fact the sharing of our abode and bread with the needy is a lived Eucharist!

Our Christian community, more than ever, NEEDS to remember its conversation with the Risen Lord: ‘were not our hearts burning within us while he spoke to us on the way and opened the Scriptures to us?

DHIKR SIMPLE METHOD

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

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

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