Category: Weekly Message

Rev. Katsu’s Weekly Message (6/1/2020) – Obon

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I hope each of you are remaining safe and healthy during this unprecedented period of our lives. COVID-19 is turning our lives as we know it, upside down. Events which occur each year like clockwork is being affected. Obon season is soon approaching but this year, Seattle Betsuin’s Obon Odori is sadly canceled. But…not to despair as it is not completely cancelled. We are still planning to do virtual Bon Odori!! In these unprecedented times, Bon Odori 2020 will be unprecedented as well! Details will follow soon so please continue to visit our website for the latest information.
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Rev. Katsu’s Weekly Reflection (5/18/2020)

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I hope all of you are staying safe and in good health.

I want to announce the Metta Award virtual ceremony was held on Saturday, May 16th. I am pleased to announce ten (10) students received the Metta Award. For those of you who may not know, let me share the following from the “Metta Award” website.

“The Metta Award program is designed to help Cub Scouts of Buddhist faith to deepen their faith and to further their knowledge and practice of the Buddhist Teachings.
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Rev. Katsu’s Weekly Message (5/11/2020) [The 75th Anniversary of A-Bomb]

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The first Atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima city on 8:15 AM, August 6th, 1945, and the second one was dropped on Nagasaki city three days later on 11:02 AM, August 9th, 1945. About one-third (1/3) of each city’s women, children, men and animals were instantly killed. One hundred and forty thousand (140,000) people in Hiroshima and seventy thousand (70,000) people in Nagasaki.

Seventy-five years have passed since then. My father, Rev. Tatsuya Kusunoki, is a survivor of the Nagasaki’s A-bomb; he was only 6 years old at that time. Since then and throughout his life, he had an unceasing desire to share his experience and to use his experience to promote his wish for promoting peace with others.

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