Today's Verse
Though regret is so piled up within Me, I shall save all of you according to your minds.
However high My regret is piled, I shall work, holding fast to the utmost. (XV:15-17)
This Month’s Message: Experience Rather Than Information
Oyasama once said: “This path is not the way of intelligence or knowledge.” Anecdotes of Oyasama, no. 190 A young female TV reporter visits a locally renowned cake shop. As she eats a mouthful, we can tell that she is in seventh heaven. “Wow, it really is scrumptious!” she exclaims.…
December Monthly Service 2015 Performed
The last monthly service of the year 2015 was conducted at Tenrikyo Church Headquarters on December 26, with the Shinbashira presiding as chief officiant. The Home of the Parent was unusually warm and was blessed with a calm, clear winter sky. In the Service prayer, the Shinbashira mentioned that the…
Season’s Greetings from the Shinbashira
May I extend my warmest Season’s Greetings to all of you. I am truly thankful for the efforts you made during the past year in sprinkling the fragrance of the teachings and helping save others in many parts of the world. This year, we will be finally observing the 130th…
This Month’s Message: Always with You
Oyasama said in a Divine Direction: “I am still living here. I have not gone anywhere, not gone anywhere.” Osashizu, March 17, 1890 Imagine an old man who lost his fortune in a business failure long ago, was preceded in death by his entire family, and now lives alone in…
Tenrikyo Representatives Attend Interreligious Conference in Rome
Rev. Hideo Yamaguchi, the head of Dai-Roma Mission Station, together with some Italian Yoboku, attended an international conference commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Second Vatican Council’s document “Nostra Aetate,” the Declaration on the Relation of the Church with Non-Christian Religions. The conference was held at the Pontifical Gregorian University…
The Shinbashira’s Sermon at the Autumn Grand Service 2015
May I express my sincere appreciation for the efforts you are devoting in your daily lives to the work of the path in your countries and communities, as well as for the trouble you have taken to attend today’s Service in the middle of the final stage of the pre-anniversary…