Miyuki Ito, 38, and her five-year-old daughter, Kotone, are scheduled to be baptized as Catholics at the April 3 Easter Vigil at the Yonezawa Church in Yamagata Prefecture, 290 kilometers north of Tokyo.
What makes them unusual? “My home is a Shinto shrine. My current job is as a miko,” or female shrine attendant, she explains. Her husband is a Shinto priest.
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About the feast
http://www.ewtn.com/devotionals/mercy/feast.htm
How to say the chaplet (it takes only about five minutes)
For those who have found your way to my blog looking for Good Friday & Easter masses in Tokyo two churches with English masses can be found in my blogroll on the right of the page. They are the Franciscan Chapel Center Roppongi, and St Ignatius in Yotsuya next to the campus of Sophia University. I suggest St Ignatius as they have far more capacity than the FCC. There are plenty of churches with mass in Japanese which I encourage anyone to try because if I can you can too.
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