Today's Verse
If this origin is known in detail, there should be no cause for illness. (III:92-93)
Successor-Designate Daisuke Nakayama Marries Nobue Kamikawa
On September 1, the wedding ceremony of Successor-Designate Daisuke Nakayama, 26, and Nobue Kamikawa, 28, was duly conducted at the Foundress’ Sanctuary. Shortly after 9:30 a.m., about an hour before the wedding ceremony began, the bride and groom left the Chuch Headquarters Staff Quarters and proceeded to the Main Sanctuary…
First Session of the Seminar for Successors Conducted at the Home of the Parent
The first session of the Seminar for Successors was held in Jiba, the Home of the Parent, between August 28 and 30 with an attendance of 1,114 men and women. […]
Students Training Course Takes Place for High-Schoolers, Following a New, Grade-Based Format
The High School Division of the Students Training Course was held at the Home of the Parent between August 9 to 15 with a total of 928 participants from all parts of Japan. […]
August 2017 Monthly Service
The August Monthly Service of Tenrikyo Church Headquarters was performed on the 26th in the Main Sanctuary with the Shinbashira presiding as chief officiant. In the beginning of his Service prayer, the Shinbashira touched upon the “knot” on the Kanrodai, saying, “We were shown an unexpected ʻknot’ on the Kanrodai…
The Heart of the Parent: Conveying the teachings
The day before the Monthly Service at Jiba, my father, who is our head minister, always comes to my house to perform a home service. When he visits, my father would always ask my children questions about the “three promises” for the Children’s Pilgrimage. At first, they had trouble even…
Japan-Nepal Friendship Concert Two Years after Massive Earthquakes
On August 12—more than two years after a series of earthquakes left 31,000 people dead or injured in Nepal—a Japan-Nepal Friendship Concert was held in Nepal’s capital, Kathmandu in order to encourage the victims and promote friendship between Nepal and Japan. It was sponsored by Koshi Branch Church’s Kathmandu Fukyosho,…