Catholic Honjo Church Website

UPDATE/2023・9・5
WELCOME　　

「 I tell you the truth, unless a kernel of wheat is planted in the soil and dies, it remains alone. But its death will produce many new kernels -- a plentiful harvest of new lives.」

John the Gospel
12:24

Honjo Church was built in downtown Tokyo in meiji period.(1879)
This year marks the 145th year of establishment
It is a catholic church.
The Church is worthy of
a prayer house.
It is calm atmosphere.
Please visit us once.

Greetings from
Isao Kikuchi, SVD, Catholic Archbishop of Tokyo

26 Catholics were executed 5th February 1597 in Nagasaki
and Canonized on 8 June 1862.
26 Holy Martyrs (St. Paul Miki and companions)
are the patron Saints of Honjo Catholic Church.

The feast day has been celebrated every year for quite some time.
Mass was celebrated in Japanese with some Latin prayers and Gregorian Chant.
I also had a chance to share my thoughts after the Mass.

When I was a seminarian, we used to come to join the Mass to show our gratitud
e to then parish priest, late Fr. Shimoyama who had supported the formation of
SVD priests in Nagoya at that time.

Isao Kikuchi, SVD, Catholic Archbishop of Tokyo

4-37-2 Ishihara, Sumida-ku, Tokyo 　〒130-0011　TEL：03-3623-6753
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Greetings from Isao Kikuchi, SVD, Catholic Archbishop of Tokyo

Greetings from
Isao Kikuchi, SVD, Catholic Archbishop of Tokyo