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　I reach the 60th spring for me. I was asked by the alone sister who was good at English in an occasion of the course society of the religion department of November of the last year with "did father, Maria know when an answer at the time of the Annunciation was Let it be?" and was clogged up for an answer.

 

  I dragged the English Bible and read Luke Gospel one chapter 38 nodes.
There was it with Let it be to me according to your word. (according to the words, become this body.). It was half a century since then and finally noticed that, in fact, the song which the Beatles sang sang Maria.

 

  It is the song which I hummed well in half life of my 60 so far. It was a movie that met the Beatles in Nagasaki of Kyushu first without knowing that the Beatles came to Japan in the days of a junior high student, and Japanese average made a fuss. Inviting you so that a big older brother went for a movie immediately, and having been "Help!! It was ".

 

  For me who did not know Japan well either, it was very fresh to have looked at a foreign country called the U.K. in a viewpoint called the Beatles. And caused a strong wish to want to live in foreign country which an impression at that time wanted to go in foreign country in the corner of the heart; think first.

 

  I have spent time for English study at the monastery of the Carmelite monastery in Dublin in British neighboring country Ireland using summer vacation for two months. I wanted to observe the British Museum and stopped at London on the way home. I got on a train without being able to finish controlling a feeling to tell to want to go to Liverpool by all means while I spent two weeks. An impression of the Beatles might be deep as much as that.

 

  However, it completely falls to have eaten what what kind of place you just went to even if you look back. I only think that it still remains to the negative film as I took a lot of photographs then. I still remember only that the only memory drank very delicious Malt's whiskey in a pub.

 

  Liverpool is the landing places from old days to the U.K. of the Irish emigrant. The talk that was abused as a slave in this Liverpool in boyhood of St. Patrick whom an Irishman assumes a pride remains. St. Patrick runs away and comes back to Ireland afterwards. And I say that it was a live saint through a life, and way of life "spirituality of the pilgrimage" is inherited.

 

  A story has been greatly got off. "The Let It Be" in Japan thinks that I was used as a meaning, "it becomes somehow if I live at will". I think that I was not understood in at least meaning, "only God come to remain effect".

 

  When When I find myself in times of trouble I am troubled, and I suffer
Mother Mary comes to me                    The Virgin Mary visits me
Speaking words of wisdom                   He/she speaks words of the wisdom
Let it be                                            Saying "only God come to remain effect"

 

  When And in my hour of darkness I am wrapped in darkness
The She is standing right in front of me Virgin Mary stands in my immediate very front
He/she speaks words of the Speaking words of wisdom wisdom
Let it be saying "only God come to remain effect"

 

  I am surprised at having been sung by the words that a heart of the prayer of Maria is really handed down to us. Because Japan did not have a Christian background, the real intention of this song hummed by many people might not come. For the person who was depressed ahead of many events, and suffered, this song was big encouragement, the song that it was when I supported it. It was words to support the person who lived in the life to relations, prayer, in front of God and us, a word of the wisdom to say that it was an answer of Maria at the time of the Annunciation of Maria.

 

  I feel that the meaning of celebrating Virgin Mary in May might be rich more widely. The Japanese tends to take good care of mother Maria than God who is father, too. I changed that I said that courage and the power that Maria accepted Son of God Jesus by the word "fiat voluntas tua" were words of the wisdom that many people were given and felt.

 

  We value the rosary that Maria was recommended to many people at every appearance on spending this May and want to bring up humility and deep trust for God, "only you come to always remain effect" in a fight with the self.

Principal Michiharu Yamaguchi