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The third year began from April. I arrive at the church on foot from Kasaoka Station in five minutes. In addition, the wharf of the Sanyo steamship is in the closeness approximately 50 meters from a church and hears the bell of the signal that the first ship leaves it on that day when it is 6:50 a.m. Even if I am doing mass when I hear it, I am upset very much. This is because it notices that the departure time to my school approaches. Is true an intention of at the same time morning omeria (short sermon); is preached a sermon, and is because the intention of around three minutes notices that it is for five minutes and around ten minutes.

 

  Then I leave the parking lot of the church on a car with the bag which I put a bag and a lunch (I cut down a lunch from September three years ago and came to eat at school.) in in a suit at about 7:02. I have both water bottles with the colder tea and get in a car now. Because there was sometimes that I was in trouble very much after going to a school when I forgot ipad without a cell-phone a lot without a wallet, I came to sleep after I confirmed it at night.

 

  From the evening of Saturday, an event is waiting on cleaning, the weekend of the washing. There is a lot of being different from the Fukuyama church. At first the size of the room of the Catholic priest is different. Fukuyama had a restroom, a bath in a room like a hotel, but the Kasaoka churches are all separate with bedroom, work room, dining room, bath, washhouse, balcony for drying clothes ground. Thanks to the grace, I came to walk the extensive space on the second floor well.

 

In addition, the trace indicating successive foreign fathers having lived in extensive space remains. As for one, the excellent cross which I have not looked at is played everywhere so far. The second is a bathroom. There was the nozzle of the shower there, but around 40 centimeters of one which there was to height was common for the nozzle from the floor when I sat down when it was Japan and washed a head.

 

  However, the position in the lowest place is the altitude of 1m40 centimeter, and the nozzle holder which there is toward the top is height so as to have never used it in the height of 1m80 centimeter for two years. A photograph of the face which is smiling, and seems to be warm of fathers of three Atsushi feeling society broken so far is left for the entrance of the room of the laundry drying place. I did not understand the height, but father of the last Atsushi feeling society was sumetto father. He thinks that it was a big person, too.

 

  Preparations for mass on Sunday are work of the rectorship. I prepare the previous night and prepare for hosuchia (bread to use in mass) in morning. The aging of the church is the reality that I cannot hide. Because a young person does not come, there may be no help for it, but even age like me is called a young person at the church. You must bring up a successor somehow. It is an urgent problem.

 

  I came to go to the town called Kitagawa for mass once a month for approximately two years. This is because the person who told it listened to you saying "Kitagawa is the church of the forerunner of the Kasaoka church, and father of the Atsushi feeling society gave mass at the meeting place which I borrowed though there is not already it now". A believer became old, and there seemed to be the believer who could not come to Kasaoka by car and has begun to go. At first, of the home of a believer was to be by turn, and to want to do mass. But the family hard to please has it and I finally borrow one house (large space of a left furniture dealer) and perform mass.

 

At first, there was little participation of believers of Kasaoka, too, but I gradually increase and seem to change in around 14 people. It seems to become the mass that there are the tears which there is laughter in in, and only God strongly feels that it was the effect.

 

And, on Sunday, a lot of every week came to be able to participate in mass. It is Mainichi which really appreciates God. In addition, a believer came to be pleased with the putting in order of the mass. I select it as "a study session" after the mass of the second week and the fourth week for one hour and it is etc and talks about a sacrament about a story of the Bible or faith to a believer. I understand nothing whether you know all if baptized. If there is a posture to always learn about faith in acknowledgment of such a reality humbly, I perform it while praying that faith deepened more may be brought up.

 

And I perform a simple dinner party preparing for in the volunteer when a study session is over. Therefore I think that some warm atmosphere is born. I hear words of Paul "whom I always really thank" somewhere of the heart.

 

I perform the sick person visit 1 times in a month. It takes around one and a half hours when it all rotates by car. But it seems that faces of a believer when I turned up always shine. It is every day of the Kasaoka church which wants to always spend time with hope and joy every day. I wrote it as I hit.

 

Principal Michiharu Yamaguchi