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Story of the principal

I thank all people concerned with in these 6 years
2017-03-14
 I have met the word, "it was not revealed what kind of meaning it had as for us to exist again, to live until it could appreciate own existence who oneself was at all." that a person called Thomas Merton (the ascetic practices Catholic priest who lived in American Trappist Convent) left recently. When I read it, I felt so as to have a pain when my heart was really more unripe. It is oneself who is not deepened so spiritually so as to be able to appreciate own existence, but it feels only to have to do only the end for 6 years properly.
  For these six years, I really learned a lot. I thrust "preparing" "learning" "things living for as a Catholic priest" at oneself considerably seriously and think that it was six years when I was anxious about that I live in learning anything while failing many times.
  One Catholic priest was in charge of a class of "the religion" before me and has left it 14 years ago in one year when I looked back. I was asked with "would you tell the high school girl of the House of astronomy of the dawn the religion?" as a successor on the telephone than Bishop Mayor of Hiroshima parish late Atsumi Misue. It was part-time service, but "social ethics" and the class called "a general ethic" were kept and performed a class at that time in nursing school of Iwakuni and a social welfare technical school of Hiroshima for four hours a week for 90 minutes. In addition, I worked as the director of Onomichi pure soul kindergarten and worked as the rectorship of the Onomichi Catholic Church. Anyway, it is longed for early having been over so that each day is surprised. It was all beginnings.
  There was it, and it was on Wednesday, or the class in the star of the dawn ended the things of the event of the kindergarten with to the seventh lesson from the fourth lesson on Thursday and came back to the kindergarten in a hurry. I am reflecting now when you should work hard to know this school a little more when I look back.
  It may be still unforgettable. You called me than Director sister Ishii on the afternoon of 26th on the next day on Christmas of 2009. I heard words of Director late Ishii who did not think "will become the principal of the Fukuyama Akenohoshi girl's junior and senior high school?". I obediently "I belong to the organization called the Hiroshima parish. It was what or answered from me when I did not have you talk with bishop at the end of Mayor of Hiroshima parish three which was the head of the organization saying it is not to be able to answer. When do it; "bishop gives an answer to me. I have a promise to let you proceed only for six years. When I called you that father wanted you to think afterward, was you with "by when should I give an answer?", it was said, "give me an answer by 25th in January, 2010". I had you give a letter missive in consultation with bishop after having been troubled and finally calmed down. I remembered that I spent uneasiness and every day desired all the time for one year until April, 2011. "The Great East Japan Earthquake" on March 11 gave a big shock in my heart at the same time. Then six years passed in no time.
  There was various trouble on ending the headmastership of the school, but I am too busy, and there is still no room looking back toward deeply now. I want to have time to look back, and to reflect on oneself slowly from April of this year.
  If I was up at half past 5 a.m. if I thought and bathed in a shower and changed my clothes and I took the breakfast and drank medicine, and it was at 6:25, I went down in a lower temple of Confucius and performed mass, and life to put the lunch which I made last night in the bag, and to leave for the school on a car at around 7:00 continued for four years. I stood near the school gate at 7:45 if I arrived at the school and did "greetings exercise" until 8:25 and spent it. This is over soon for six years, too. As for "the continuation it is in the feeling that finally knows the meaning of the words power" or the word only a little. I am thinking that I might become you with each person's students familiarly a little for these past several years in particular by learning the name.
  Really various events happened rapidly. However, I think whether what I was able to spend until today is not because after all there was protection of Virgin Mary and thank you without encountering a big accident, big natural disaster.
  I think that it was six years when I prayed well. It is a memory of the weather of the memorial festival bazaar of the last year not to forget yet. The expectation that on the day the typhoon passed Hiroshima of the memorial festival bazaar went out of the Meteorological Agency. If on the day a typhoon came, you should do it how or could continue talks and did it for postponement or did a discussion whether you did for cancellation by any chance. All day long and a typhoon began to be delicately late and, as a result, I did well, but was really serious. And I prayed well.
  I remember that I remember it without a limit. At first what you must appreciate heartily must thank God and Maria of the Trinity. It was only the thing that I am inexperienced, and I run out of and supports me next and wants to thank the teachers whom I led. Only a nuisance has really run. I have you stand it and feel that I really am sorry.
  And I want to thank Director sister Mary terejita Setsuko Ishii who invited an inexperienced person like me as the principal heartily. I have not been able to understand a meaning of such a sudden death of the director yet, but am thinking that it is in when that will be to surely have a meaning, or you may understand it.
  In closing, I want to tell each all of you, students of the protector about thanks some other time. There is each everybody for these six years, and a heart is really healed and thinks that I am encouraged and have been supported. Thank you very much. I look forward to further prosperity of your happiness and school.
  In addition, I read and support this blog and thank many readers who supported it. I appreciate your patience that read the blog which words are not worth all the time. I am going to do my best as one Catholic priest from now on in the Catholic Church. Thank you very much.
 
Principal Michiharu Yamaguchi
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