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Today's Verse
Your suffering at this time must be trying, but the future will bring delight to your mind. (XI:64-65)
Leilehua High School Visits Tenri
On March 17, 45 students from the Performing Arts Department of Leilehua High School in Hawaii performed together with about 300 music club students from Tenrikyo schools in a concert called Tenri Aloha Joint Concert, which was held in Tenri University’s Gymnasium 1. Designed to provide opportunities for students of…
Church Headquarters Announces New Personnel
Directors-in-Chief Sanctioned On March 26, Honbu-in Hiroaki Yamazawa, 65, and Honbu-in Zensuke Nakata, 53, received sanction as the Director-in-Chief of Religious Affairs and the Director-in-Chief of Administrative Affairs, respectively. Rev. Yamazawa is serving his third term, and Rev. Nakata his first term. Director-in-Chief Yamazawa was born on August 24, 1949,…
Women’s Association Holds Commemorative Lecture Meetings
In the late afternoon of April 18, the Women’s Association organized five lecture meetings in the Home of the Parent in commemoration of the association convention. Drawing a total audience of about 11,500 people, the events were held under the common theme “Nurturing Ourselves and Those around Us into True…
March 2015 Monthly Service
On March 26, the Monthly Service was performed in the Main Sanctuary with the Shinbashira presiding as chief officiant. In the Service prayer, the Shinbashira expressed appreciation for God the Parent’s warm parental heart and boundless blessings. He said: “All of us Yoboku including church head ministers are determined to…
This Month’s Message: Stormy Wind
Oyasama once said: “A stormy wind never lasts forever. Therefore, wait by crouching down when it is blowing and set out after it stops.” Anecdotes of Oyasama, no. 183 Living as we do in this day and age, we are quite busy. We use our ingenuity to try to manage…
Structural Changes Made to Tenrikyo Administrative Headquarters
Effective on April 1, Tenrikyo Administrative Headquarters underwent structural changes affecting a number of its offices. In light of a gradual decrease in the number of Administrative Headquarters staff members and hinokishin personnel, the plans for the changes had been discussed for a few years with the aim of streamlining…