Kargador at Dawn

Kargador at Dawn
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Wednesday, March 13, 2019

2nd Sunday of Lent (C)

Short Reflection for the 2nd Sunday in Lent (C): The Transfiguration of Jesus
Readings: Genesis 15:5-12, 17-18; Philippians 3:17-4:1 or 3:20-4:1; and Luke 9:28b-36

Selected Passage: “While Peter was still speaking, a cloud came and cast a shadow over them, and they became frightened when they entered the cloud.  Then from the cloud came a voice that said, ‘this is my chosen Son; listen to him’."  (Luke 9: 34-35))

Reflection:  Jesus was transfigured before his disciples. Then they heard the voice from the cloud saying: ‘this is my chosen Son; listen to him.’  The challenge to each one is to hear again that same voice during this season of Lent and begin to listen again to the Word of the Lord.
Let the Transfiguration be the powerful presence of Christ, which takes charge of everything in us and transforms even that which disturbs us about ourselves.  God penetrates those hardened, incredulous, even disquieting regions within us, about which we really do not know what to do. God penetrates them with radiant light, with the life of his Spirit, and gives them God’s own face. www.badaliyya.blogspot.com
DHIKR PRAYER 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…

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