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JANUARY & FEBRUARY 2023 EVENTS
Below schedule is subject to change due to the health department regulations.
JAN: 1st Shusho-E 10 am Facebook Live
2 - 4 Temple closed
10th Board Meeting 6:30 pm
16th Martin Luther King Jr. Day - Temple closed
29th Monthly Service & Memorial 10 am Facebook Live
Annual Temple Members General Meeting 11 am
FEB: 5th Setsubun-E (Bean-Throwing Ceremony) 11:00 am
14th Directors’ Meeting 6:30 pm
19th Fujinkai Meeting 10 am
Nehan-E & Monthly Service & Memorial 11 am Facebook Live
20th Presidents’ Day - Temple closed
100TH ANNIVERSARY LECTURE SERIES
Last Year we had a very successful lecture series, Zenshuji 100th Anniversary A Series of Lectures and Conversations. Thank you very much for your participation! If you are interested to listen to the lectures again, please see the lecture series page below for video links.
AMAZON SMILE & ZENSHUJI
Now you can shop at Amazon and donate to Zenshuji at the same
time! Here is the link to Zenshuji Amazon smile page;
http://smile.amazon.com/ch/95-1782838
Please follow their instruction there on how to do it.
WANTED! OLD PICTURES You Took at Zenshuji
We are starting to edit a commemorative booklet and create a slide
show for Zenshuji 100th Anniversary Banquet (Save this date May
27th, 2023). To use in the booklet and/or for the slide show, we are
looking for old pictures you took at Zenshuji. These photos can be
very old or relatively old. Please let us know if you have some
pictures to share with us for the celebration.
Happy New Year!
Thank you very much for all your support to Zenshuji last year and continuous support for this year!
This year’s very special event will be on the weekend of May 27th & 28th for Zenshuji100th Anniversary ceremonies and banquet. We will send out more information when available. Please join us and celebrate 100 years of Zenshuji’s achievement.
Shusho-E
Shusho-E service was held on January 1st in-person and online. A Dharma talk was given by Rev. Shumyo Kojima. Here is the video which was live-streamed on Facebook Live.
SETSUBUN - Bean Throwing Ceremony
Setsubun service on Feb 5th is to celebrate the changing of the Winter Season to the Spring Season. In the homes, a ‘mame-maki’ or bean throwing ceremony is held to drive out the evil spirits. The beans are thrown and meant to pierce the devil’s eyes.
Darumas are sold at the Setsubun Service as a symbol of Good Luck. On the back side a message is written such as Good Family Health, Successful Business, etc. and the Darumas are blessed and taken home. Come early to purchase and have your Daruma message blessed. Also fund-raiser raffles will follow the service. Raffle tickets are $20.00 donation per book or $2.00 donation per ticket, 10 tickets per book.
If you were born in the year of the Rabbit
and would like to be a bean thrower on
stage, wearing Kamishimo (Japanese
traditional costume) or without, please
call the temple at (213)624-8658. See
the letter and the flyer on the right.
(You don’t need to fill in a form anymore.)
