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　By the tradition of the Catholic Church, November is a month to pray for the people in commemoration of people passed away. Therefore it is said to be the moon of the dead person. This custom began in the about eleventh century in France and came to be performed widely in Europe in the 14th century. I give a memorial service at a junior high school in a high school on 12th on November 11 and, in the principal school, have a time to pray soul may rest in peace of various places passed away. 　The everlasting parting with the beloved family and friend is sad and is hard. I can never talk about meeting in the world. I taste a really deep sense of loss. However, in Christianity, I catch "the death" when I pass to a new life not already irreparable "it is over". Jesus Christ already meets beloved people passed away again posthumously in heaven as revived across the death on the cross, and this is because there is conviction to be wrapped in love of God together, and to continue growing.

 

  When when I think of person and death passed away, it thinks of "life" "way of life" "life" at the same time and thinks. My friend finished the days of fight against illness of four and a half years because of an intractable disease and returned to God in September of this year. The disease to lose physical freedom little by little took up thing, toiuyonakotosubeteo to speak her playing the favorite cello, working, the thing that I wrote. "Thank you," the postcard only for a word came back in a character to shake finely when I sent a letter, but it was vicarious writing since there was it. And the notice of the thing passed away arrived with the same handwriting. She will be to live in a new life near God now. In the days of fight against illness, the way of the friend who prayed for me of life told that I lived in the life that I had as hard as possible faithfully.

 

  In the month of the dead person, I think of the beloved deceased for this one month and pray and, as time to reflect a life, way of oneself present of life, want to spend it carefully.

 

Principal Kinuko Asahiro