Old Article from Time Magazine

Monday, Apr. 21, 1941

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,772709,00.html

“Japan is sending its No. 1 churchman, Bishop Yoshimune Abe, and its No. 1 Christian, trachoma-cured Toyohiko Kagawa, to a peace parley with U.S. church leaders at Riverside, Calif, next week. Its purpose as stated by the Japanese: “Prayer and to explore ways to preserve peace between Japan and the United States.“

The part of the article I was interested in in particular was the last paragraph.

“Two subjects not likely to be aired are Bishop Abe’s practice of worshiping at the Shinto Shrine at Ise and the decision of the Government-inspired church union to modify the Apostles’ Creed as suggested by the Ministry of Education. Some of the deletions: the Virgin Birth because it was “immoral,” the Resurrection because it was “unscientific and superstitious,” the Last Judgment because it implied that the Emperor could be judged.“

St. Francis Xavier: Letter from Japan, to the Society of Jesus in Europe, 1552

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1552xavier4.html

New Vancouver School Policy: Parents Refused Right to Pull Kids from Pro-Homosexual Lessons

This is an outrage.  How long before this spreads across Canada and how long before people are jailed for their religious beliefs?

http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2008/jun/08062512.html

VANCOUVER, B.C., June 25, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Vancouver school board has announced that it intends to enforce the B.C. Ministry of Education’s policy that forbids parents from removing their children from the classroom during pro-homosexual discussions.

The province of British Columbia has been subjecting its curriculum to a complete revamp in the last several years, largely under the supervision of a homosexual “married” couple, Murray and Peter Corren.

One aspect of the new curriculum that the Correns insisted on was a stipulation that B.C. parents could not choose to remove their children from the classroom during discussions on homosexuality – a stipulation that, in the end, the B.C. Ministry of Education agreed to.

Pope Returns to Traditional way of Distributing Communion

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/sns-ap-vatican-pope-communion,0,2231071.story

Benedict’s master of liturgical ceremonies said in an interview Wednesday in the Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore Romano that the pontiff will place the Communion host in the mouths of the faithful who kneel before him.

Wow!  This plus the recent news about the Holy Father wanting the Latin rite mass, or as he puts it the Gregorian rite, to be in every parish not just in England but the world what can I say except bring on the incense!

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2129070/Latin-mass-to-return-to-England-and-Wales.html?service=print

Sign of the Cross in Japanese

Of course before we pray we should cross ourselves and here it is in Japanese.

Chichi to Ko to Seirei no mina ni yotte.

Chichi is father, ko is son,  seirei is holy spirit, and mina ni yotte is in the name of.

Our Father in Japanese 2

This is in reply to a comment by Marco about another translation of the Our Father he found.  Sorry for the late reply on it but I waited until I had attended two Sunday mass to be certain what was said.  Now I can say for certain the prayer I posted is the Catholic Lord`s Prayer said at mass.  The prayer on the link you gave seems to be in an older style of Japanese, and has the Protestant ending.  The other prayers you requested I will get to work on posting in romaji.

My original post here

http://catholicinjapan.wordpress.com/2007/10/23/our-father-in-japanese/

Padre Vic Goes to Japan

http://padrevic.blogspot.com/

Hope the rain stays away for you father.

For all your Swiss Guard Needs

They have an official online store now.

http://engl.schweizergarde.eu/

While I probably wont be buying anything from them anytime soon (the yen euro exchange rate is a big factor in that) I would probably go for the letter opener first since it looks cooler than the pair of scissors I currently use.  When I was in Rome I didn’t buy anything Swiss Guard related I was just happy to see the real guards and take photos.  It may depend on the guard, or for security reasons but the one I asked would not permit me to have my photo taken next to him.  I felt uncomfortable asking in the first place since they are on duty guards but my friend insisted and we got our answer.  No.

Ambassador Presents Imperial Honor To Redemptorist Missioner

ROME (UCAN) — Emperor Akihito of Japan has honored a Canadian Redemptorist priest, Father Gabriel Boudreault, for 56 years of dedicated service to the Japanese people in the social, cultural and religious fields.

http://www.ucanews.com/2008/06/12/ambassador-presents-imperial-honor-to-redemptorist-missioner/

I had always wondered why Catholic churches here allowed couples who were both non Catholic to have a wedding in the church and now I know why, Father Gabriel started it.

The Pope & President Bush

Browsing through the photos of their recent meeting I found this one which actually made me laugh out loud.  To see more ordinary strolling in the garden photos see here

http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/europe/features/article_1411075.php/In_photos_President_Bush_Meets_the_Pope?page=1