Today's Verse
This Month’s Message: All to the Good
Once, when a flood washed away a follower’s rice fields, he visited Oyasama to explain the situation. She then said: “Sah, sah, that’s all to the good. That’s all to the good. Now that your goods have been carried away to the bottom of the sea, it will come to…
The Year After
Rikuzentakata City, Iwate Prefecture, lost ten percent of its population to the earthquake and tsunami on March 11, 2011. Even a year and nine months after the disaster, the daunting task of removing the remaining wreckage continues. In November 2011, an Iwate support group began planting seedlings and flower bulbs…
November 2012 Monthly Service
The November Monthly Service of Tenrikyo Church Headquarters took place in the Main Sanctuary on the 26th with the Shinbashira presiding as chief officiant. In the Service prayer, after expressing appreciation for God the Parent’s boundless protection, the Shinbashira said: “All of us Yoboku will purify our minds according to…
The Shinbashira’s Sermon at the Autumn Grand Service 2012
May I express my sincere appreciation to all of you for returning to Jiba from within the country and overseas for today’s Autumn Grand Service. I also want to express my deepest gratitude for the efforts you are devoting to the work of the path in your daily lives. We…
2012 Young Men’s Association Convention
On October 27, the 88th Tenrikyo Young Men’s Association Convention was held in the Inner Courtyard of Tenrikyo Church Headquarters. Some 15,000 Young Men’s Association members from Japan and overseas attended the convention. […]
The Shinbashira Announces Instruction Three at 2012 Autumn Grand Service
On October 26, the Autumn Grand Service took place at Church Headquarters’ Main Sanctuary in commemoration of the Teaching’s day of origin with the Shinbashira presiding as chief officiant. […]