The April Monthly Service of Tenrikyo Church Headquarters was performed in the Main Sanctuary on the 26th with the Shinbashira presiding. Azaleas in full bloom welcomed followers who had returned to the Home of the Parent. At nine o’clock in the morning, the Shinbashira, accompanied by other Service performers, worshiped…
The March Monthly Service of Tenrikyo Church Headquarters was conducted in the Main Sanctuary on the 26th with the Shinbashira presiding. The worship halls and precincts were filled with a great number of followers, including the young people who had come for the Students’ Spring Pilgrimage to Jiba. The Shinbashira…
Tenrikyo Church Headquarters’ February Monthly Service was performed on the 26th with the Shinbashira presiding. In the prayer, the Shinbashira first expressed his gratitude to God the Parent for God’s daily blessings. He then said: “We have successfully completed Church Headquarters’ official visits to directly supervised churches, which started last…
The last Monthly Service for the 165th year of Tenrikyo was conducted at Church Headquarters on December 26 with the Shinbashira presiding. In his prayer, the Shinbashira touched on the steps we took during the outgoing year–a year in which we not only laid the groundwork for our spiritual construction…
The November Monthly Service of Church Headquarters was performed in the Main Sanctuary on the 26th. The morning was overcast and chilly, and many of the followers, who began arriving in the precincts an hour before the Service was scheduled to commence, came bundled up in jackets and scarves to…
The September Monthly Service of Church Headquarters was performed on the 26th in the Main Sanctuary with the Shinbashira presiding. Since the weather had been crisp and pleasant during the preceding several days, the cloudy skies and ever cooler weather on that day gave the impression that autumn had finally…