One of the National Holidays in the month of November in Japan is Labor Thanksgiving day. This year it falls on the 23rd, this coming Tuesday. The church I attend has a celebration on the Sunday before (today) and as in the States, mention is made of things for which we are thankful and prayer is offered to God for his goodness and generosity toward us. We also have a pot luck lunch with everyone bringing something to share. The weather is just warm enough to eat outside, which is great because we don't have enough room inside to set up the food and to have people sit. Someone always brings Japanese curry and in recent years someone brings everything for Okonomiyaki. If you are not familiar with this dish it is usually made with a meat like thin sliced pork and then a mixture of chopped cabbage and a little batter made with flour and egg so it is sort of like a thick pancake. This is cooked on both sides on a griddle and when cooked through it is topped with a dark sauce, that's kind of sweet and sour and some mayonnaise and katsuoboshi (shaved dried bonito). Yum! Really!
To see photos of this event you can visit the Church's web site at http://omfthechapelofadoration.org I took a couple of pictures, but will be a bit slow to get them uploaded this time because I didn't bring the correct cable with me to the office 0.O !
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Today was our Stewardship Sunday and we had curry for lunch at the church. The choir had to gobble it down because we had practice for choir Sunday two weeks from today. The lunch was followed by "the hanging of the greens" to get redy for advent.
What's the schedule for Choir Sunday? Might it be something I would like to attend?
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