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Approach on the anniversary of the founding on October 20
2012-10-17
October 20 is the anniversary of the founding of the Fukuyama Akenohoshi girl's junior and senior high school. In my opinion, one year passes more from the anniversary of the founding of the last year. I feel like being very strange that I am in Canada by a school excursion just on that day this year.
  In the first place the beatification of the founder of "the support Maria monastic order" which is the management mother's body of the House of astronomy of the dawn called "Mary Therese de subiran" is performed now in Vatican 65 years ago. Four sisters arrive in Fukuyama in response to the invitation of the La Salle father of the Society of Jesus which participated in the ceremony by chance from Japan in December, 1947. Because I was as a mission, Sur Mary Elise who was the president at the time arrested that the founder conveyed a message of the help of Christ with "an appeal from God" for an invitation of the Father La Salle and decided that I dispatched a sister in Japan.
  In addition, is after the war; go to ruin, and is thought that there was a thing severe at all as for the current situation of the educational front which there was for the confusion period of Japan. This current situation gives Japanese children education, and what thought that you must save it can nod. While oneself is bombed, the La Salle father does not leave Hiroshima, and this is because it lived in postwar Hiroshima. I erect "the peace memory temple of Confucius" by an atom bomb in Noboricho in a town of Hiroshima who destroys it exhaustively, and was done (important cultural property) and carry out a mission of the propagation and think that this is not because it saw the current situation of the children who only wander without a person, the school where most suffer from.
  The event of the fifth grader is containing what's called "Zen meditation meditation meeting" at school now. In the human being education of the star of we dawn, the important education that it is very unique, and there is not at other schools called "religion" is had. It is mental health care at the same time. There was the word, "a heart must be fixed in a sentence of a certain one so that study gave result".
  If a heart is not brought up properly, even examination is an everyday class, but if "get tired of it, stop it. I think that I may have the feeling that I want to choose a more comfortable person as. If a heart is fixed, I am thinking that I may have a heart to endure, a heart to endure when it is hot when I am hard. In addition, the aim to "be valid for others" without it may not be accomplished either. The reason why I live for others is that trouble and the patience that it is hard to say are demanded.
  I want you to have a strong heart to take without avoiding patience and sacrifice to the fifth grader who faced examination at least in one year of the examination. Therefore I take it for me when I perform what's called this "Zen meditation meditation meeting".
  Strangely, Father Hugo La Salle of the Society of Jesus which invited a sister of the support Maria society who built the foundations of this school some time ago is the person who opened "the world of Zen" in Japanese Catholicism and Japan. There is the book called "a way to Zen, realization" in the book. I also participated in sanzenkai of Father Kakichi Kadowaki of the Society of Jesus of one week for the first time in Rome and experienced it about Oriental spirituality.
  In this way, I notice that the heart that is strong for the importance of staring at own heart and way of the Father Hugo La Salle that I made for a Japanese while being bombed of life and strong faith appear and disappear. When I think and see it, it is mysterious, but I bring Oriental spirituality into the Catholic world and think that Father La Salle that introduced Zen meditation these as the former preparations to the way of kanso is a great person some other time.
  When I was thinking about Hugo La Salle father of a certain Society of Jesus in the neighborhood where I invited it to Japan on the anniversary of the founding, I thought that it was a school and a mysterious connected thing and wrote it.

Principal Michiharu Yamaguchi
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