28th Sunday in Ordinary Rime (B)

Short Reflection for the 28^th Sunday of the Ordinary Time (B)

(In the Philippines, the second Sunday of October is dedicated to the Indigenous Peoples)

Readings: Wisdom 7: 7 – 11; Hebrew 4: 12 – 13; Mark 10: 17-30

Selected Passage: “As he was setting out on a journey, a man ran up, knelt down before him, and asked him, "Good teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?" (Mark 10: 17)

Meditation:  We often ask what we must do to inherit eternal life?  Like the young man in the gospel narrative, we, too, are NOT ready to embrace the radical imperative of the Gospel. After this initial ‘fire’ or conversion to the Lord, we go back to the usual way of calculating the cost and we simply turn our back and live as before.

In a more particular way, we focus on the Indigenous Peoples as our neighbors in need.  To enter the Kingdom of God, we need to ask ourselves if we have given our neighbors in need – food, drink, clothing; visited them when they are sick or in prison; and attend to their needs.  These good deeds for the IPs  and the needy would determine our love for God and neighbors.

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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…!

It takes a week of remembering (dhikr)…or even more days to relish the beauty of this method…