Posted on 03/23/2018 6:42:34 PM PDT by marshmallow
Seminarians and deacons were consecrated yesterday across Japan: Sapporo, Saitama, Osaka, Hiroshima, and Fukuoka. The number of foreign priests is growing.
Tokyo (AsiaNews) – For some of Japan’s dioceses, celebrating the ordination of deacons and priests at this time of the year, before Holy Week, has become something of a tradition.
Yesterday, various dioceses celebrated the ordination of seminarians to the diaconate, and deacons to the presbyterate.
In Sapporo (picture 1), deacon Paul Miki Sakuma Chikara was consecrated priest and seminarian Buonaventura Minoshima Katsuya became a deacon.
In the Diocese of Saitama (picture 2), the ordination to the diaconate of Mexican seminarian Jorge Manuel Macias was celebrated.
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Darned if I can find them.
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