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AMAZON SMILE & ZENSHUJI

Now you can shop at Amazon and donate to Zenshuji at the same

time! Here is the link to Zenshuji Amazon smile page;

http://smile.amazon.com/ch/95-1782838

Please follow their instruction there on how to do it.

DECEMBER 2019 & JANUARY 2020 EVENTS

DEC: 1 - 7 Rohatsu Sesshin all day

8th Fujinkai Meeting 10 am

Jodo-E, Monthly Service & Memorial 11 am

10th Directors’ Meeting 7:30 pm

15th Garden Cleaning/Omigaki 9 am

Goeika Osame 1 pm

22nd Dr. Kato’s Buddhism Lecture in Japanese 11 am

25th Christmas Day - Temple closed

28th Mochigome Washing 8 am

29th Mochitsuki 7 am - 5 pm

31st Year-end Service 4 pm

JAN: 1st Shusho-E 10 am

2 - 4 Temple closed

14th Board Meeting 7:30 pm

19th Dr. Kato’s Buddhism Lecture in Japanese 11 am

20th Martin Luther King Jr. Day - Temple closed

26th Monthly Service & Memorial 10 am

Annual Temple Members General Meeting 11 am

New Year’s Party 12:30 pm

TEMPLE MEMBERSHIP RENEWAL

It’s time to renew your temple membership. Please use the form here and mail it to the temple with a check. Thank you very much for your continuous support!

ROHATSU SESSHIN - DEC 1st to DEC 7th

You are all invited to attend Rohatsu Sesshin, our one and only

sesshin of the year at Zenshuji. (A sesshin is a week-long retreat

in which people devote themselves to zazen.) This year, Rohatsu

Sesshin will begin on Sunday, Dec. 1st, and conclude at

midnight on Sat. Dec. 7th.

Three meals will be served each day. For those who plan to join us for meals, it would be good to know if you are planning to eat with us. If you are planning to sit for quite a bit of the sesshin, please send an email to webmaster@zenshuji.org to register. We often get more people sitting with us on Sunday and particularly on Saturday, the last day. There is a suggested donation of $50- 150, on a sliding scale depending on your situation. Please come and join us, even if you can only sit for an hour or two.

MOCHITSUKI & MOCHI ORDER

We will have the annual end-of-the-year Mochitsuki (mochi pounding) at Zenshuji on Sunday December 29th from 7am to 4 pm. We need a lot of muscle power to pound a lot of mochi rice. Please help us whenever you can. If you are ordering mochi, please mail/bring in the mochi order form below to the temple by December 17th. Every year we have people asking to buy but they did not order. Remember, we order the mochigome (mochi rice) by the order form counts. Please help us to be more accurate.

One pound of small mochi - $5

Okasane-Mochi 1 set - $8

We also have Mochigome washing on Saturday,

December 28th from 8am. Please volunteer.

END THE YEAR WITH YEAR-END SERVICE

Our Year-End service will be at 4 pm on December 31st. Please join us to end the year calmly and spiritually.

NEW YEAR’S SERVICE

New Year’s service will be held at 10 am on January 1st. You will be treated with Ozoni (mochi in soup) and celebratory sake after the service. Please join us to celebrate New Year 2020, the year of Tokyo Olympics.