As I am studying Japanese in my spare time, I decided to find out about the Orthodox Church in Japan. It turns out that the faith was brought there by St. Nicholas (who is known as St. Nicholas of Japan), a missionary from Russia. Well, I think I found something pretty spectacular in my opinion. I could marry the two ideas: learn Japanese, while growing more spiritually. Check out this site from a lay person in the Japanese Orthodox Church. There is a lot of neat information! 主、哀れめ よ。
In Christ,
Andrew
Actually, 主、憐れめよ。 哀 means pity, poor, faling etc. 憐 means mercy, compassion, etc.
ReplyDeleteBut do not worry too much. As a Japanaese, I would say, even many Japanese would not understand the difference of these two.
It appears that I'm doing the same thing. I started learning Japanese about 6 months ago, and I'm also an Orthodox Christian, I'm from Syria. So I thought that I should learn at least the basic prayers in Japanese.
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