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Wednesday, September 30, 2020

Badaliyya October Session

Folks,

Peace!

The October Session of Badaliyya - Philippines on Shaping a Christian Spirituality in the midst of Islam...

Join the Webinar session and the schedule, ID and password are below...
Topic: IAG Philippines' Zoom Badaliyya Meeting
Time: FRIDAY, Oct 2, 2020 03:00 PM to 5 pm Asia/Manila

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Saturday, September 26, 2020

Thinking of Death...

SOME LIGHT-HEARTED THOUGHTS ON A VERY HEAVY SUBJECT


Some were old, some were young; some were prepared, some were not; some welcomed it, some met it with bitter resistance; some died from natural causes, some died through violence; some died surrounded by love and loved ones, some died alone without any human love whatsoever surrounding them; some died peacefully, some died crying out in fear; some died at a ripe old age, some died in the prime of their youth or even before that; some suffered for years from seemingly meaningless dementia with those around them wondering why God and nature seemed to cruelly keep them alive; others in robust physical health with seemingly everything to live for took their own lives; some died full of faith and hope, and some died feeling only darkness and despair; some died breathing out gratitude, and some died breathing out resentment; some died in the embrace of religion and their churches, some died completely outside of that embrace.


Every one of them somehow managed it, the great unknown, the greatest of all unknowns.


Most people, I suspect, have the same experience that I do when I think about the dead, particularly about persons I have known who died. The initial grief and sadness of their loss eventually wears off and is replaced by an inchoate sense that it’s alright, that they are alright, and that death has in some strange way washed things clean.


In the end, we have a pretty good feeling about our dead loved ones and about the dead in general, even if their departure from this earth was far from ideal, as for instance if they died angry, or through immaturity, or because they committed a crime, or by suicide. Somehow it eventually all washes clean and what remains is the inchoate sense, a solid intuition, that wherever they are they are now in better and safer hands than our own.


Our faith tells us that, given the benevolence of the God we believe in, happiness awaits us.

To read more click here or copy this address into your browser
http://ronrolheiser.com/some-light-hearted-thoughts-on-a-very-heavy-subject/#.X2zZIZNKg_8

Wednesday, September 02, 2020

23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time (A)

Short Reflection for the 23rd Sunday of the Ordinary Time (A)

 

Readings: Ezekiel 33: 7-9; Romans 13: 8-10; Matthew 18: 15-20

 

Text: “Again, (amen,) I say to you, if two of you agree on earth about anything for which they are to pray, it shall be granted to them by my heavenly Father. For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them." (Matthew 18: 19-20)

 

Meditation: There is the call to gather in his name – to break bread, to pray and to act – together! The Church is, precisely, this assembly in his name. Integral to the Christian Community is to fraternally correct the erring brothers and sisters.  In our communities, we don’t tolerate evil deeds and behaviors unbecoming of a Christian. www.badaliyya.blogspot.com

 

DHIKR SIMPLE METHOD

 

Dhikr is an Arabic word which means REMEMBRANCE.

1st step: Write the text 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.