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Story of the principal

November is a month of the dead person
2012-11-26
 When it is November every year; the class of the religion about "death." The content to speak talks about not changing so every year.
  However, I think that the story of four times about "death" not to want to hear too much wants a meaning to feel as such and teach it because it is what it is concerned with how oneself will live from now on to think about death.
  Even if this thinks so, as for the students, the heart seems to be restless by (a lot of examinations or small test) only of the near future. I may have to talk even if I do not calm down.
  When I am young, or the death is old, it does not obey a law, and it sometimes comes with random order at the top of the happiness of the world, and this is because it may sometimes visit you suddenly from now on. This is because it greatly has an influence on way of life in the future now how oneself thinks about death. I think though you should have possibilities to say our fate to live for in the world of irrationality, the absurdity.
  In a matter to talk about by a class well, I may talk about death of mother. I was transferred to Onomichi and thought that it was the second year, but it was student instruction and remained at the school after I finished a class in the welfare technical school which was in Hiroshima.
  It was past 9:00 at night that I noticed that a mobile phone sounded only after being going to return to Onomichi as it became late. It was the word from a sister-in-law, "I would come home immediately because a doctor told you to gather relatives for pneumonia from morning".
  She returned at considerable speed using an expressway, but a mobile phone sounded on the way, and mother has already left for the parking from the world when, stop it, she talked. It was 92 years old, but the death of mother is special for a child anytime.
  I die with life, and the person matches the life and thinks a thing to notice it slightly. However, because I do not know when you die, the fear for the death fades and may live in an illusion to be able to live forever.
  It is famous as the person who Mr. Shigeaki Hinohara makes the thing called "a meeting thinking about life and death" in the cities in Japan, and walked who is Alfons Deeken Father and St. Luke Hospital honor director. Alfons Deeken Father was a professor of the lecture called "philosophy of the death" of Sophia University at the same time when I was in Tokyo.
  The memory that associated concerning work well remains at that time. I go to the university to hear his class well and remember that I was surprised at the fun of the story and the depth of contents.
  When I still watched educational television on the second floor of the brand-new church when I was rectorship of the Onomichi Catholic Church, I broadcasted a documentary program called "half life of the Father Alfonso D Ken". It was very surprising and saw it seriously.
  Therefore what I saw was valid now, and the past event that it was not possible for was talked about to the imagination from Ken Father on the A day when it was bright and was filled in humor and overflowed.
  He was Germany of his hometown at the age of 4 years old and seemed to be before little that Nazi Germany gained power, and "a Jew" was persecuted, and a holocaust was going to be carried out. Father of D Ken Father seemed to be done very familiarly with a neighboring Jewish family. When strictness of the government for the Jew made the state that was hard to live, e.g., when it was with shopping or was in trouble in a various matter, I seemed to hold out a hand of the help.
  One day I heard a sound that the big article was broken in a neighborhood, and a Jewish family doing it familiarly seemed to be going to be taken to the place that father and the D Ken boy ran, and made a sound by the soldier of the Nazis when I went.
  Father entered among Jews with a soldier and I raised both hands and seemed to be going to stop it. He received several bullets which an officer of Nazi Germany fired, and father seemed to die in front of D Ken boy then.
  I say that he came to think about saying what it is to live deeply as he repeats age. And I state that I choose the way of the Catholic priest and continue up to the present day.
  It may be one example to let you think about how I should live in now to meet death.
 
Principal Michiharu Yamaguchi
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