Japanese Jesuit Offers Novena for Disaster Victims of Japan
March 17, 2011 in News
Jesuit scholastic Stephen Pitts is currently studying at Loyola University Chicago but he spent his summer last year teaching English in Japan. He continues to communicate via email with his fellow Jesuits in Japan regarding the ongoing crisis after the terrible triple blow of an earthquake, subsequent tsunami and a threatened nuclear reactor meltdown have left the country damaged and trying to recover from the disasters.
Today, he received an email from Jesuit Father Ryuichi Hanafusa, the director of the retreat house in Kamakura, Japan where Pitts made a retreat last July, with the following novena.
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