Prayer for World Peace

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"God’s infinite love 

flows into us, 

and shines forth from us

as a brilliant spiritual light of love.

This spiritual light of love 

grows and grows in intensity, 

covering the entire world, 

and filling in the hearts of everyone 

with thoughts only of love, peace, order 

and the Truth of Oneness under God." 

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After Shinsokan Meditation: delicious lunch

Wednesday morning the ladies from the SNI centre meet at 10:30am and does the Shinsokan prayers and read the sutra and does some exercise till lunch. Last Wednesday, Mrs. Atsuko Yoshinaga decided to share her Monja recipe with us and cooked it on a large electric circular frypan.

She prepared some vegetables beforehand 1/2 cabbage, chopped small 2 green onions, handful of shrimp, handful of green nori, small fish eggs, 2 -3 sliced cheese.

She fried these in oil stirring constantly and when done, she opened up an area in the centre and had 3 cups of dashi soup, 1 cup flour, 2 tbsp. of worcestershire sauce, and mixed it up with the cooked ingredients. It appeared like scrambled eggs when it was finished but it tasted good and Mrs. Kuromi brought a ague rice which the rice was flavoured in shoyu and mirin and sugar. Takkuwan and rounds of small toasted french bread with blueberry and strawberry jam. A delightful lunch with 7 of the ladies and apparently they do this cooking session every so often.

Here's some pictures of the event. Satoye

Remembrance Day - Stanley Park - November 2011

Here are the pics I took today of Remembrance Day Ceremony for Japanese Canadians at Stanley Park.

The Master of Ceremony was Gordon Kadota, for those who can recognize him. Among the guests were Consulate General of Japan, Hideki Ito, JCCA's president Ron Nishimura, VPD Mounted Squad, RCMP, and representative from National Nikkei Centre. Tom who had placed the wreath represented Seicho-No-Ie was among the few representing its own organizations.

The SNI people who had attended the ceremony were Mrs Akitaya, Tom, Mr. Kitasaka, Mr. Wada, Sachiko, Ruby and Bernie. We all met at SNI church by 10:00am. Sachiko, Bernie and I got a ride with Akitaya-san in her car and Tom gave ride to Kitasaka-san and Wada-san. Since Akitaya-san and Tom had previously attended the Remembrance Day at Stanley Park, they knew where to go.

It was my very first time participation for the Japanese Canadian War Memorial although I've attended others in the past. Therefore, we were warned beforehand to dress warm. I wore a long-john underneath my thermal pants, knee high boots, undershirt, turtle-neck sweater, water-proof windbreaker jacket, wool hat, leather gloves and an umbrella.

As in most years, during the memorial service it rained then when it was over, rain had stopped!! Following the ceremony, we were all invited to a reception at Vancouver Rowing Club. I thought that we were just going for a hot coffee or tea to warm ourselves but we were served futomaki, age zushi, sandwiches, manju, cakes and other sweets, much to our delight !!!!

I'm planning to do this again next year, rain or shine!

Thank you very much!

Ruby
(written on Nov 12, 2011) 

Seicho-No-Ie Centre in Vancouver

The photo below is our centre in the last year's winter.

Our address is:

305 East 16th Avenue
Vancouver, BC VST 2T7 Canada
(few blocks from Main street)

We have meetings in English every week. Come and visit us!


Sachiko