{"id":21172,"date":"2020-05-28T14:48:21","date_gmt":"2020-05-28T14:48:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mklm.org\/?p=21172"},"modified":"2020-05-29T22:29:02","modified_gmt":"2020-05-29T22:29:02","slug":"celebrating-an-unusual-ramadan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mklm.org\/kenya\/celebrating-an-unusual-ramadan\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating an unusual Ramadan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;3.22&#8243; fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; _i=&#8221;0&#8243; _address=&#8221;0&#8243;][et_pb_row _builder_version=&#8221;3.25&#8243; background_size=&#8221;initial&#8221; background_position=&#8221;top_left&#8221; background_repeat=&#8221;repeat&#8221; _i=&#8221;0&#8243; _address=&#8221;0.0&#8243;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;3.25&#8243; custom_padding=&#8221;|||&#8221; _i=&#8221;0&#8243; _address=&#8221;0.0.0&#8243; custom_padding__hover=&#8221;|||&#8221;][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;3.27.4&#8243; background_size=&#8221;initial&#8221; background_position=&#8221;top_left&#8221; background_repeat=&#8221;repeat&#8221; hover_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243; _i=&#8221;0&#8243; _address=&#8221;0.0.0.0&#8243;]<div id=\"attachment_21175\" style=\"width: 1210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-21175\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-21189 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/mklm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/IMG_9897-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mklm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/IMG_9897-1.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/mklm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/IMG_9897-1-1280x960.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/mklm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/IMG_9897-1-980x735.jpg 980w, https:\/\/mklm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/IMG_9897-1-480x360.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) and (max-width: 1280px) 1280px, (min-width: 1281px) 1600px, 100vw\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-21175\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Three mothers and their children live together in this small house.<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<p>Here in Mombasa, Kenya, the majority of the people are Muslim, followed by Christians. Once a year Muslims all over the world participate in Ramadan, a month of intense prayer and dawn-to-dusk fasting intended to bring the faithful closer to God and to be reminded of the suffering of those less fortunate. Similar to our Lenten season, people donate to charities and feed the hungry.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_21174\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-21174\" class=\"size-full wp-image-21174\" src=\"https:\/\/mklm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/IMG_9700.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mklm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/IMG_9700.jpg 640w, https:\/\/mklm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/IMG_9700-480x360.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 640px, 100vw\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-21174\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Food to be packed for distribution to poor families<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Eid_al-Fitr\"><strong>Eid al-Fitr<\/strong><\/a> is the festival when Ramadan comes to an end, also known as \u201cbreaking the fast.\u201d Many celebrate it by slaughtering a domestic animal (cow, goat or camel) as a symbol of Abraham\u2019s willingness to sacrifice his only son. This year we celebrated the feast on May 25.<\/p>\n<p>My closest friends here are Muslims, so in the same manner as last year I wanted to participate alongside them in some of their traditions. But unlike last year, we are <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-africa-52788396\">contending with coronavirus<\/a><\/strong>, curfews, travel restrictions and a greater lack of financial resources. Being able to sit on the floor eating traditional foods with the neighbors or going to the mosque was not an option.<\/p>\n<p>So this year Abdalla and I began the first week of Ramadan engaged in a seven-day mostly silent retreat, focused on developing and strengthening our ordinary lives in a God-centered practice. We broke our daily fast a bit early to enable him to arrive back at his home before the 7 p.m. curfew. The next three weeks Abdalla fasted and mostly stayed at home praying, as I continued with my ordinary life.<\/p>\n<p>During the final week of Ramadan, we prepared for Eid. Our plan was to \u201cfeed the hungry\u201d by supplying 50 neighborhood families with food so they could celebrate the holiday too.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-21196 alignleft size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/mklm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/IMG_9935-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"361\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mklm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/IMG_9935-1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mklm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/IMG_9935-1-480x289.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 600px, 100vw\" \/>This year many people were financially unable to celebrate with the traditional good meal, so Abdalla asked if we could slaughter a goat to share a portion with each of the 50 families. The day before our celebration, I purchased a goat, and it was prayed over, slaughtered, butchered and packaged in my backyard by Abdalla, Suleman, Ramadhan and Julius.<\/p>\n<p>We filled 50 bags with maize flour, rice, cooking oil, green grams, soap, goat meat and sweets. With the assistance of my friend and village elder Musa and eight local youth, we walked the mud-filled narrow paths and streams of sewage to deliver the bags to families in my neighboring small informal settlement. Many of the residents are really struggling through this time\u2014they have little food, and rents are unpaid. They were so grateful as were all of us for being able to provide an unexpected moment of joy.<\/p>\n<p>We returned to enjoy a delicious Eid feast of goat stew and rice. I feel blessed to be able to join with the youth \u201cin loving your neighbor as yourself.\u201d And I hope that by including them in this sharing, we were together planting seeds for a better world.<\/p>\n<p>Eid mubarak \u2014 Blessed celebration!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_button button_url=&#8221;\/covid-19-emergency-appeal\/&#8221; button_text=&#8221;SUPPORT MARYKNOLL LAY MISSIONERS DURING COVID-19&#8243; button_alignment=&#8221;center&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;3.27.4&#8243; custom_button=&#8221;on&#8221; button_text_size=&#8221;16px&#8221; button_text_color=&#8221;#000000&#8243; button_bg_color=&#8221;#ffc324&#8243; button_border_color=&#8221;#ffc324&#8243; locked=&#8221;off&#8221; _i=&#8221;1&#8243; _address=&#8221;0.0.0.1&#8243;][\/et_pb_button][et_pb_button button_url=&#8221;\/tag\/covid-19\/&#8221; button_text=&#8221;STORIES OF MISSION DURING COVID-19&#8243; button_alignment=&#8221;center&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;3.27.4&#8243; custom_button=&#8221;on&#8221; button_text_size=&#8221;16px&#8221; button_text_color=&#8221;#000000&#8243; button_bg_color=&#8221;#ffc324&#8243; button_border_color=&#8221;#ffc324&#8243; locked=&#8221;off&#8221; _i=&#8221;2&#8243; _address=&#8221;0.0.0.2&#8243;][\/et_pb_button][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Breaking the fast\u2019 and \u2018feeding the hungry\u2019 take on new meaning during COVID-19<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":21177,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"[caption id=\"attachment_21175\" align=\"alignnone\" width=\"1200\"]<img class=\"wp-image-21175 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/mklm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/IMG_9897.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" \/> Three mothers and their children live together in this small house.[\/caption]<p>Here in Mombasa, Kenya, the majority of the people are Muslim, followed by Christians. Once a year Muslims all over the world participate in Ramadan, a month of intense prayer and dawn-to-dusk fasting intended to bring the faithful closer to God and to be reminded of the suffering of those less fortunate. Similar to our Lenten season, people donate to charities and feed the hungry.<\/p>[caption id=\"attachment_21174\" align=\"alignright\" width=\"640\"]<img class=\"size-full wp-image-21174\" src=\"https:\/\/mklm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/IMG_9700.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/> Food to be packed for distribution to poor families[\/caption]<p>Eid al-Fitr is the festival when Ramadan comes to an end, also known as \u201cbreaking the fast.\u201d Many celebrate it by slaughtering a domestic animal (cow, goat or camel) as a symbol of Abraham\u2019s willingness to sacrifice his only son. This year we celebrated the feast on May 25<\/p><p>My closest friends here are Muslims, so in the same manner as last year I wanted to participate alongside them in some of their traditions. But unlike last year, we are <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-africa-52788396\">contending with coronavirus<\/a><\/strong>, curfews, travel restrictions and a greater lack of financial resources. Being able to sit on the floor eating traditional foods with the neighbors or going to the mosque was not an option.<\/p><p>So this year Abdalla and I began the first week of Ramadan engaged in a seven-day mostly silent retreat, focused on developing and strengthening our ordinary lives in a God-centered practice. We broke our daily fast a bit early to enable him to arrive back at his home before the 7 p.m. curfew. The next three weeks Abdalla fasted and mostly stayed at home praying, as I continued with my ordinary life.<\/p>[caption id=\"attachment_21176\" align=\"alignleft\" width=\"480\"]<img class=\"size-full wp-image-21176\" src=\"https:\/\/mklm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/IMG_9646.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" \/> (From left) Suleman, Abdalla and Rama skin the traditional sacrificed goat in my backyard.[\/caption]<p>During the final week of Ramadan, we prepared for Eid. Our plan was to \u201cfeed the hungry\u201d by supplying 50 neighborhood families with food so they could celebrate the holiday too.<\/p><p>This year many people were financially unable to celebrate with the traditional good meal, so Abdalla asked if we could slaughter a goat to share a portion with each of the 50 families. The day before our celebration, I purchased a goat, and it was prayed over, slaughtered, butchered and packaged in my backyard by Abdalla, Suleman, Ramadhan and Julius.<\/p><p>We filled 50 bags with maize flour, rice, cooking oil, green grams, soap, goat meat and sweets. With the assistance of my friend and village elder Musa and eight local youth, we walked the mud-filled narrow paths and streams of sewage to deliver the bags to families in my neighboring small informal settlement. Many of the residents are really struggling through this time\u2014they have little food, and rents are unpaid. They were so grateful as were all of us for being able to provide an unexpected moment of joy.<\/p><p>We returned to enjoy a delicious Eid feast of goat stew and rice. I feel blessed to be able to join with the youth \u201cin loving your neighbor as yourself.\u201d And I hope that by including them in this sharing, we were together planting seeds for a better world.<\/p><p>Eid mubarak \u2014 Blessed celebration!<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p>","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[26,20],"tags":[530,340,82],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.5 (Yoast SEO v22.5) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Celebrating an unusual Ramadan - Maryknoll Lay Missioners<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/mklm.org\/kenya\/celebrating-an-unusual-ramadan\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Celebrating an unusual Ramadan\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"\u2018Breaking the fast\u2019 and \u2018feeding the hungry\u2019 take on new meaning during COVID-19\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/mklm.org\/kenya\/celebrating-an-unusual-ramadan\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Maryknoll Lay Missioners\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/MaryknollLayMissioners\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-05-28T14:48:21+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2020-05-29T22:29:02+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/mklm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/FI_IMG_9897.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"500\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"600\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Mike Garr\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@MKLayMissioners\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@MKLayMissioners\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Mike Garr\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/mklm.org\/kenya\/celebrating-an-unusual-ramadan\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/mklm.org\/kenya\/celebrating-an-unusual-ramadan\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Mike Garr\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/mklm.org\/#\/schema\/person\/b96da8d1df087fc2cd64b348c30debc1\"},\"headline\":\"Celebrating an unusual Ramadan\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-05-28T14:48:21+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2020-05-29T22:29:02+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/mklm.org\/kenya\/celebrating-an-unusual-ramadan\/\"},\"wordCount\":684,\"commentCount\":2,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/mklm.org\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/mklm.org\/kenya\/celebrating-an-unusual-ramadan\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/mklm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/FI_IMG_9897.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"COVID-19\",\"Mike Garr\",\"Mombasa\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Faith Formation and Pastoral Care\",\"Kenya\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/mklm.org\/kenya\/celebrating-an-unusual-ramadan\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/mklm.org\/kenya\/celebrating-an-unusual-ramadan\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/mklm.org\/kenya\/celebrating-an-unusual-ramadan\/\",\"name\":\"Celebrating an unusual Ramadan - 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