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サンキューカード 310円
ミニロザリオ 白8 660円
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蝶のピン・ブローチ
Temu
ショップパウリーネでサンキューカードやミニ・ロザリオを購入しました。
サンキューカードは私の普段の生活では使う機会があまり発想出来ないのですが、とても上品で薔薇が一輪だけというデザインに惹かれて購入しました。
ミニ・ロザリオはパールビーズが付いた小さなタイプで、私は雨が好きで冬が大好きなので購入しました。
蝶のピン・ブローチはシノワズリなタイプで陶器のような肌触りです。
普段余りピンを付けるファッションでは無いのですが、強いデザインで素敵なので、棚やキャビネットにオブジェとして置いても良いかな、なんて思っています。
実はこちらのミニ・ロザリオや通常サイズのロザリオには、中心の要（かなめ）にメダイが付けられています。
こちらは不思議のメダイと呼ばれるメダイです。
Shop Paulineの説明によると
1830年、聖母マリアはパリの愛徳姉妹会の修道女である聖カタリナ・ラブレに著、現在、私たちが手にしている図柄を示し、「このようなメダイを作りなさい」と命じられた。2年後に、このメダイを作る許可がパリの大司教から与えられた。それ以降、このメダイを身につけ聖母に取り次ぎを願い人々に、いろいろな奇跡の恵みが与えられたため、いつとはなしに「不思議のメダイ」と呼ばれるようになった。
聖カタリナ・ラブレ
不思議のメダイについてのページShop Pauline内
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先のコロナウイルスが世界中に蔓延していた時、キリスト教圏はとても広大ですので、信仰を持たれている方、又ご縁の合った方々が、この不思議のメダイを日本でいう御守りのように持たれていたそうです。
詳しくは上記リンクの不思議のメダイについてのページをご覧になって下さい。
数日前メダイをネットで見ていたら、Pray for us.と記されたマリア様のメダイがあり、ドキッとしたんですね。
私達の為に祈りなさい。というジャングリッシュ（古い日本人にしか通じない英語の総称（スラング））の古い英語教育しか無い私は、命令形で読んだんです。
マリア様が、マリア様達（天使さんとかキリスト様とか）の為に、こちらに祈りなさい、と初めて見る厳しさで言っている。という図柄だと咄嗟に認識しました。
？？？ 何だろう？ そんな強く居丈高に言うかな？ 偽物かな？ と考えていたら、数日後にどういう意味か分かりました。
実は不思議なメダイにはお祈りの言葉が決まっています。
「ああ、けがれなくお宿りになられた聖マリア、あなたに より頼むわたしたちのために お祈りください」
という短いお祈りを唱えるのだそうです。
その、私達の為にお祈り下さい、が「Pray for us.」だったんですね。
知らないって凄いですよね？
余りに知らなすぎて自分にびっくりしました。
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そう言えば私、以前写経しにお寺に行った事があるんですよ。
時間があった時に、お部屋で写経をして奉納したり、お寺がお持ちの写経場が空いている時間に写経をして、やはり奉納したりするというやり方もあります。
私は自分で行ってみて驚いたんですが、写経をして奉納する時に奉納する私がお寺さんに奉納料を支払うんですね。
一瞬、お金を払って写経を奉納する、の流れが頭の中で繋がっていなかったんですが、そりゃそうだろう、と、むしろ今まで私の中にその流れが入っていなかった事の方が驚きでした。
写経の場合、何について写経をするか。言葉が合っているか分かりませんが、お願いしたい事、写経に込める願いを最初に記すんです。
で、私が願った内容が無事善い風になる様に、御住職（お坊様の事）が沢山の写経をお経と共に奉納して下さるんだそうです。
それは確かに有料です。
一応私が写経をしに行った経験を楽しく書いていますので、良かったらご覧になって下さい。
* -アスタリスク- 3 エナメル、のびのび写経を禅寺で1人でやる！その1
* -アスタリスク- 4 エナメル、のびのび写経を禅寺で1人でやる！その2
"のびのび写経"というワードは私（わたくし）エナメルの造語ですが、商用利用等無許可で許諾しています。
Enamel Prof.O.
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| Thank-You Cards / Pearl Bead Mini Rosary / Butterfly Pin & Brooch |
Thank-You Card: 310 yen
Mini Rosary (White, 8 beads): 660 yen
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https://shop-pauline.jp/
Butterfly Pin/Brooch
Temu
https://www.temu.com
Mini Rosary (White, 8 beads): 660 yen
Shop Pauline
https://shop-pauline.jp/
Butterfly Pin/Brooch
Temu
https://www.temu.com
I can’t really think of many occasions in my daily life when I’d use thank-you cards, but I was drawn to the design—which features a single rose—and found it very elegant, so I bought them.
The mini rosary is a small type with pearl beads; I bought it because I love rain and I absolutely love winter.
The butterfly pin brooch has a chinoiserie style and feels like porcelain to the touch.
I don’t usually wear pins with my outfits, but since the design is so striking and lovely, I’m thinking it might look nice displayed as a decorative object on a shelf or in a cabinet.
Actually, both this mini rosary and the regular-sized rosary feature a medal attached to the central pivot.
This is the so-called “Miraculous Medal.”
According to Shop Pauline’s description,
In 1830, the Blessed Virgin Mary appeared to Saint Catherine Labouré, a nun of the Sisters of Charity in Paris, and showed her the design we now have before us, instructing her, “Make a medal like this.”
Two years later, permission to produce this medal was granted by the Archbishop of Paris. Since then, because people who wore this medal and asked the Blessed Virgin to intercede for them were granted various miraculous graces, it gradually came to be known as the “Miraculous Medal.”
St. Catherine Labouré
https://www.pauline.or.jp/calendariosanti/gensaint50.php?id=112801
Page about the Miraculous Medal
Within Shop Pauline
http://shop-pauline.jp/?mode=cate&cbid=115270&csid=1&sort=n
Two years later, permission to produce this medal was granted by the Archbishop of Paris. Since then, because people who wore this medal and asked the Blessed Virgin to intercede for them were granted various miraculous graces, it gradually came to be known as the “Miraculous Medal.”
St. Catherine Labouré
https://www.pauline.or.jp/calendariosanti/gensaint50.php?id=112801
Page about the Miraculous Medal
Within Shop Pauline
http://shop-pauline.jp/?mode=cate&cbid=115270&csid=1&sort=n
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During the recent global spread of the coronavirus, given the vast size of the Christian world, it is said that people of faith—as well as those who had some connection to the faith—carried this Miraculous Medal much like an amulet in Japan.
For more details, please visit the page about the Miraculous Medal via the link above.
A few days ago, while browsing medals online, I came across a medal of the Virgin Mary inscribed with “Pray for us,” and it really caught my attention.
Having only received an old-fashioned English education—where “Janglish” (a slang term for English that only older Japanese people understand) was the norm—I read it as an imperative: “Pray for us.”
I instantly interpreted the design to mean that the Virgin Mary was telling me, with a severity I’d never seen before, to pray here on behalf of her and the others (like the angels and Christ).
??? What could this mean? Would she really speak so forcefully and haughtily? Is it a fake? Just as I was pondering these questions, I figured out what it meant a few days later.
It turns out that the Miraculous Medal has a specific prayer associated with it.
“O Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to you.”
Apparently, you’re supposed to recite this short prayer.
So, that “Pray for us” was actually “Pray for us.”
It’s amazing how little I knew, isn’t it?
I was shocked at just how ignorant I was.
For more details, please visit the page about the Miraculous Medal via the link above.
A few days ago, while browsing medals online, I came across a medal of the Virgin Mary inscribed with “Pray for us,” and it really caught my attention.
Having only received an old-fashioned English education—where “Janglish” (a slang term for English that only older Japanese people understand) was the norm—I read it as an imperative: “Pray for us.”
I instantly interpreted the design to mean that the Virgin Mary was telling me, with a severity I’d never seen before, to pray here on behalf of her and the others (like the angels and Christ).
??? What could this mean? Would she really speak so forcefully and haughtily? Is it a fake? Just as I was pondering these questions, I figured out what it meant a few days later.
It turns out that the Miraculous Medal has a specific prayer associated with it.
“O Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to you.”
Apparently, you’re supposed to recite this short prayer.
So, that “Pray for us” was actually “Pray for us.”
It’s amazing how little I knew, isn’t it?
I was shocked at just how ignorant I was.
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When you have time, you can copy sutras in your own room and offer them, or you can go to the temple’s sutra-copying room when it’s available and copy them there—and then offer them as well.
I was actually surprised when I went myself—it turns out that when you copy a sutra and dedicate it, you, the person making the offering, pay a dedication fee to the temple.
For a split second, the idea of paying money to dedicate a sutra didn’t quite click in my head, but then I thought, “Of course that makes sense.” In fact, I was more surprised that this process hadn’t occurred to me before.
When it comes to sutra copying, the question is: what are you copying for? I’m not sure if this is the right way to put it, but first, you write down the request you wish to make—the wish you’re imbuing into the sutra.
Then, to ensure that my wish turns out well, the head priest (the monk) offers up a large number of sutra copies along with sutra recitations on my behalf.
That service does indeed come with a fee.
I’ve written a fun account of my experience going to copy sutras, so please take a look if you’re interested.
* -Asterisk- 3: Enamel, Doing “Relaxed Sutra Copying” Alone at a Zen Temple! Part 1
https://butterflyjustdance.blogspot.com/2024/08/311.html
* -Asterisk- 4: Enamel, Doing “Relaxed Sutra Copying” Alone at a Zen Temple! Part 2
https://butterflyjustdance.blogspot.com/2024/08/412.html
The term “relaxed sutra copying” is a neologism coined by me, Enamel, but I grant permission for its use—including commercial use—without requiring prior authorization.
Enamel Prof.O.
