Whenever I'm out of the country, and it falls on a Sunday - I make sure to research where I can hear Sunday Mass. Two Sundays ago, I was in Tokyo. Last year, I heard Mass in the Franciscan Chapel Center in Rippongi and the community there was so warm. As much as I wanted to hear Mass there, it was a bit of a distance to where I was staying. Researching led me to St. Patrick's Church in Ikebukuro and they have a Mass schedule at 7am. I left our place at 6:40am, I was praying hard to have a taxi swing by where I was standing and true enough, after just saying a short prayer a taxi was there. I gave the address in by 6:55am I was at St. Patrick's Church. At the courtyard were tables and tents, nuns cleaning and arranging stuff. It looked like they were having an event. I didn't mind it as I was used to those kinds of things here in Manila. I found it odd though, that when I entered the Church, it was still dim. I thought to myse...
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