Hi, there!!
I first attended a service for Christians at the massive cathedral here the other day with my first Indian friend who doesn't relate to football. He is a Christian, so he just asked me to attend it together. And I was also interested in it, so we went there in the weekday. The mate surely participates a service every weekend. If she fails to do it, she seems to feel so guilty of it.
I don't believe anything, and there is no religions I'd like to believe in so it was difficult to understand how she feels then.
ども。
先日初めてキリスト教の礼拝に参加してきた。こっちでサッカーとはまったく関係なくできた友人が、クリスチャンということで誘われるまま教会へ。友人は毎週日曜日の午前中に必ず礼拝に参加するみたい、今回行ったのは平日やったけど、週に１度は行かないと罪悪感を感じるって。宗教にまったく縁もないし、興味もない自分には逆に興味がわく。
ってことで、行ったけど以外に立派な建物でビックリ！！
Anyway, the building was so magnificent and huge!! Amazed me!!
Honestly, I wanted to show you up inside church by posting some photoes, but of course it's not allow anyone to take photos and videos beyond the entrance.
教会の中も撮りたかったけど、しっかり「写真お断り」の札があったのでやめました。神聖な場所なんで当たり前やけど。
There are some particularly interesting stained-glass windows in the church and tableaus and statues that were awesome. Those ones just brought me back some old memories that I was traveling around UK by coach by myself when I was at 20years of age. I visited most of famous cathedrals in UK then.
中もキリスト教会らしく、立派なステンドグラスや像、絵画などいかにもって感じで見てるだけで気持ちが落ち着いた。２０才のころ、一人で大学の長期休暇を利用してイギリス中を一人で周ったときのことを思い出した。その時も色んな大聖堂に行って見学したもんです。
This seems like a someone's grave, I guess. I didn't know exactly what it was because the instrution was written by the local languege... I had totally no idea what did it say!!
これは教会のすぐ外にあったもの、説明書きが現地語しかなかったので何かわからず・・。知りたかった・・。
The service had been continued for nealy 2 hours, and what everyone was doing is a pray, reading a bible and singing an anthem of it with standing or sitting or sometimes kneeling down.
But the only my regret here was that they were speaking in the local language that I can't understand at all. To be honest, I was struggling to stay awake since it had been a hour. But I heard that the service in weekend is used English, so it'll be much more confortable with me.
礼拝は「祈り→聖書音読→聖歌斉唱」の繰り返し。立っては座り、かと思えば膝をついて祈る。どれだけ続くんかなと思ってたけど、気づいたら２時間近く続いたのには少々疲れてしまったけど、ただ心残りなんはすべて英語ではなく現地語だったということ。何を言ってるのかわからないままの繰り返しは正直後半は睡魔との戦い・・・。週末は英語のみらしいんで今度はしっかり聞いてきます。
Bye!!
ではでは！