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Women’s Association Activity Guidelines 2025
Tenrikyo Women’s Association hosted a seminar for the chairwomen of directly supervised chapters and diocese chapters at Moya 38 on January 27 and 28, 2025. The association announced that it will maintain the existing slogan for spiritual maturity as in previous years: “Let’s follow the Divine Model and become the…
New Year’s Address by the Shinbashira (Full Text)
Happy New Year, everyone. I would like to express my sincere appreciation to you for working on various tasks of the path last year. The final year of the “three years, one thousand days” has just begun. A little over two years ago, in the autumn of 2022 (Tenrikyo 185),…
Spring Grand Service 2025
On January 26, the Spring Grand Service was conducted at Tenrikyo Church Headquarters with Successor-Designate Daisuke Nakayama serving as chief officiant on behalf of the Shinbashira. The Grand Service commemorates the day when Oyasama withdrew from physical life—namely, the lunar calendar date of January 26, 1887. In the Service prayer,…
Sechi Festival Draws 46,000 People to Home of the Parent
Church Headquarters held its traditional New Year’s event called the “Sechi Festival” at the Home of the Parent from January 5 to 7. The festival, which has continued from the days when Oyasama was physically present, attracted 45,689 people—including church groups and families—to the Home of the Parent over the…
2025 New Year’s Day Service
On January 1, the New Year’s Day Service for the 188th year of the Teaching was solemnly performed in the Main Sanctuary with Successor-Designate Daisuke Nakayama presiding as chief officiant. On New Year’s Eve, it was windy due to a winter atmospheric pressure pattern. In the early hours of New…
Season’s Greetings from the Shinbashira
Happy New Year! I would like to express my sincere appreciation to all of you for your devoted efforts in the work of single-hearted salvation last year in the lead-up to the anniversary of Oyasama. We have now entered the third year of the “three years, one thousand days” period…