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From the Church Bulletins. Our Bulletin is posted upon request.

“Christ is born!” Christmas service Dec. 24-25


We celebrate “Nativity of our Lord” on Dec. 24 according to the new calendar, in order to invite non-Christian people to the Christmas celebration. 78 people, including 20 visitors, attended. Psalm and Trisagion was read in Slavonic and English by a young Russian student Ilya Kharin.

Litya in the yard

















Receiving Communoin




Three Babies baptized, Dec. 14, Sunday


Three Babies, Constantine, Florin and Georgiana, whose mothers are from Romania married to Japanese were baptized. At the end of the Liturgy, we sang “Many years” for blessing.

Liturgy in Kanazawa Nov. 24, Monday

Fourteen people celebrated Divine Liturgy in a small room, approximately 50 square meters, of Nadezhda and Anna Ooro’s house. Same as the last year, we brought a movable Altar and an offering table.

Liturgy was small but full of joy, with vivid conversation between the clergy and the participants. All of the attendants joined singing and fixed their eyes on what was done on the Altar. One of them said, “Every time we experience such a powerful Liturgy without a partition by Iconostasis, we can sense the true meaning of joy of the Divine Liturgy and the Salvation of Our Lord Jesus.”










The Cemetery of Russian Captives in 1904-05
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After the Liturgy, we visited the cemetery of the ten Russian captives of the Russo-Japanese War. There were nine tomb stones with a cross on the top and one with the sign of the crescent, who might be a Moslem. We celebrated a Panichida for them. Those tombs have been taken care of by the Eurasian Club in Kanazawa.