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I mourn over sudden death of director sister Mary terejita Setsuko Ishii
2017-01-16
 2,017 years were over, and, at 11:15 p.m. on only eighth day, the telephone of the Kasaoka church resounded. "The principal. Sister Ishii was just conveyed to the hospital in the cardiopulmonary arrest situation. I received the communication that I would pray for. I see, I answered, and a call of the carrying sounded again when I was about to go down in a jacket on the pajamas in a lower temple of Confucius. It is 11:30 when I look at the clock. I said, "the death was just confirmed at a hospital.", and line went click. I prayed while just falling in the temple of Confucius, and paying still more attention to a tabernacle while thinking about various things.
  After having prayed for approximately 30 minutes, I came back to the bedroom and lay, but I could not sleep, and various things flashed across a heart. Still I seemed to sleep for approximately two hours. An alarm sounded at half past 5 and, as an absentminded head, dressed myself and I changed my clothes and I sat down on a chair and began morning prayer, but was the movement of the heart that was in a state, and was far apart that I concentrated on for some reason.
  Thought when the parents that a big hole opened in a heart big while praying for the peace of the soul of sister Ishii in mass died revived. Mass was over and ran a car as always towards a school. I arrived in the monastery at 7:40 and met it with a director teacher by the guidance of one sister. He/she was doing it as if it was calm and I totally slept in a very quiet state. A thing in these 6 years floated like a revolving lantern and disappeared.
  "*kyoshimakihyogikai and the joint meeting of the district Catholic priest council" were to be held a church of Okayama District on that day. After telling a sister when Bishop that Kishio Shirahama where I became with Mayor of Hiroshima parish in September of the last year was to participate there, I was asked saying "I want right or wrong, funeral service mass, a funeral service to ask to be able to conduct it".
  I moved to high speed with return, a believer chairperson once to Kasaoka church. I do not remember you think, and what you moved to Okayama at all. Bishop came in a few minutes after I arrived at the Okayama church. I conveyed death of sister Ishii immediately and asked you in a wake tonight though it would be a funeral service tomorrow whether I could not ask for funeral conduct tomorrow if possible.
  I had the nice answer "that I would do something about though a meeting would enter at lunch tomorrow because it was half past 1". However, it was more than a meeting over a telephone from teachers of school at the same time as a meeting began. Various problems get a contact to me how you tell a student to a teacher and think that I caused you big trouble to a person holding a meeting.
  At the end of the meeting "today I'm sorry to have troubled you very much. In fact, the director of school gave instructions for various correspondence not acute heart failure on the telephone yesterday. I'm very sorry, I spoke. Then what time is the tomorrow's funeral service some Catholic priests? This was heard.
And the expression of the wake was held from 7:00 at night. The number of people is an estimate, but thinks that there might be around 300 attendants. Of course the old and new staff of a school, students of most academies attended it with a protector, too. I did the sermon in spite of being dissatisfaction. I conducted it in three people of Father Frederick, Father Takii and me.
  And, in the morning on the next day, one teacher was it in "there were the principal, a request, but is it all right?" and a proposal at school. It was an offer whether could not visit a kindergarten, an elementary school, the junior and senior high schools by hearse before anything went to the funeral hall. There came to be offer it in the secretariat immediately. I love schools like that and love students and think that all so runifusawashikotodato thought about sister Ishii that each staff was taken good care of.
  And I went to the Catholic Fukuyama church slightly early and told that conduct was bishop to Father Takii and conveyed that there was the participation of the Catholic priest of some combination conduct. There seemed to be fewer participants than a wake, but around 200 people think that they came. Funeral service mass began by the joint conduct of Bishop Shirahama and seven fathers (Father Takii, Father Frederick, teuan father, gyari father, Father Patrick, ogishinfu and I). It was that it was felt very delightfully to have become the funeral service mass that bit a heart.
  Her being the star girl Junior High School which it is the first batch, and receives discipline from the sisters of the founder, and was brought up of the dawn. It was the person that I entered the monastic order of the support Maria society later, and women's education was lived in straight. Having been contributed to the development of the school as a director as the principal. In addition, I thought whether her life was not a life written to the card when I knew that I had nothing left as the president of the monastic order for support Maria monastic orders of the world in headquarters France for 12 years.
  "I am a traveler passing hastily. Not the past and the future, it is to make every possible effort at the present moment. It seemed to be a life of sister Ishii who was able to finish running it according to this (happy person Mary Therese de subiran) words. I think that St. Paul says with the thing which "gained laurels of heaven now" now.
The peace of he woman's soul and the middle of a journey to heaven want to pray to become rich heartily.

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Principal Michiharu Yamaguchi
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