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Approach to the moon of the dead person
2016-11-04
 I held a memorial service. I feel that it is difficult at all to let you think about a non-daily matter called "death" from this current state that you live for while laughing merrily now.
 However, there is the student who lost a parent suddenly in the student. There is the person who experienced the death of grandparents. It is reliable that there are a teacher and the student who "death" does not mean what while repeating a non-everyday experience, and look.
  When I have begun to tell you in a welfare technical school of Hiroshima approximately 20 years ago, as for the class about my "death", is there the class about "death" from one of the students, too? I began with a question called this.
  At that time, I think that I learned all from the book which was a joint work of Father Alfonso D Ken and Ayako Sono "regarding death as life" who have begun to read by an unexpected coincidence. I think that I lectured so as to be sad if death is sad when depth of the love for the person whom the person has passed away is depth of the sorrow.
  To the child of the kindergarten which was a director, it is longed for then having shown the picture book to "be able to encounter anytime". I think that I showed the matter, "I live in a heart even if a person loving it dies so much" in a picture book not words. I wanted to convey importance and the affection of the life somehow or other. I long for ji and the state of the children who looked forever to watch the place where a cicada is dead, and an ant carries it in the totally solemn ceremony.
  The book called "how did you live in death?" of Shigeaki Hinohara seemed to be written for medical personnel and seemed to be able to understand it while I heard a story with TV in a calm figure of Mr. Hinohara several times when, in fact, it was written for us.
  There are three books that a way of thinking about "death" deepened for myself very much. [propaedeutic of the death] It is the book which Alfonso D Ken Father called this was summarized in for class use in the nursing school. It was the book which Vol. 3 where Vol. 2 where Vol. 1 "told the death" "was present at death" was written on a theme to "think about death".
  When I could come for a lecture in Fukuyama approximately three years ago and met you, it was considerably weakened, but met you very with nostalgia. At first, did not seem to know it who I am, but become the step saying goodbye, and "Father Yamaguchi. Saying do it in this; as for saying is it; it remains in the heart warmly for some reason to have been said. About Father D Ken, I have a lot of good old memories from the first encounter to the encounter several years ago.
  When I met him for the first time, a class of "the philosophy of the death" was done in Sophia University. It remains in the memory to have been a class filled with very bright laughter while attending it several times. I think that I raise "a meeting regarding death as life" with Mr. Shigeaki Hinohara, and the achievement that opened the meeting does not disappear in all cities of Japan.
  There is the book called "being dead, and my having experienced" that I explained life after death by near-death experience.
  As for us, there is always a question that how will turn out posthumously and can know the near-death experience through experiences of the done for the question. It was the book which a sister of the will to enter the priesthood society was translated into by the talk that a person called Betty idi experienced. Anyone thought the beginning to be "the near-death experiences" that I experienced and was reading it lightly, but the in a sense spiritual world existed, and, as for us, the world that lived was attracted by the contents which there was before, in fact, being born though it was different from the world. There is not it, and oneself remembers what was met for certain security that it is continued being oneself after own death whether you do not believe whether you believe the thing saying.
  Of course the way of thinking of the revival has an undeniable thing in the Christian world. Our religious life was based on it, too. It is necessary to live for others like Christ to revive like Christ. You must have God strengthen it through prayer and mass ritual simply because it is us who are weak. But, for people who do not know Christ, one must talk about one importance of living like Christ. It is the meaning called "the mission" of the parochial school.
  I want to pray for this one month for people passed away among own relative, benefactor, friends.
 
Principal Michiharu Yamaguchi
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