I will be taking my first trip to Japan in the summer for a study abroad opportunity to get a feel for the land and the people and to connect to church officials.

I want to eventually become an Orthodox priest to reach out to the people of Japan, especially the youth who are wandering aimlessly in life, too many committing suicide.

One of their past bishops in Japan was actually an American from New York who decided to go over there one day after finishing seminary in the United States.

Synopsis of the book I just purchased:
*Francis Xavier's arrival in Japan in 1549 initiated an approach to mission that distinguished the Jesuits from all other Europeans for the next two hundred years.
In a highly readable and stylishly written book, Andrew Ross shows how the Jesuits' sensitivity to Japanese and Chinese culture contradicted the imperialism of the Spanish and the Portuguese, and allowed the possibility of dialogue between East and West.*

I will be in Japan for about 40 days.

Mandatory post

REEEE

I will have a private tutor who is a native speaker come to my house until I go.

I know her.

This is only the practice trip anyway.

Not sure if this will help, but also got *Atomic Bomb Secrets* by David J. Dionisi
*Atomic Bomb Secrets presents new evidence explaining why the atomic bombs were used in 1945.
Regarding the historical record, the source information for this book is carefully documented and more analytical than the official narrative.*

The /R/Christianity discord is really bad

Tonight on things that we already know

But yeah it's cancer dude, just like the subreddit

I don’t really have a handle on Internet Christianity. I’m pretty new to the faith and places where people talk about it. I just knew a few people from my fascist days that discussed it.

Ah. Well, let me give you a good rule of thumb. If it has r/ in the name...

Gotcha. I remember commonfilths subreddit being decent so I guess I was just hopeful.

If you find a bearable subreddit relayed to religion let me know

/r/Christianity is really bad

I won’t rehash what I saw because it would just be mutually scoffing at detestable ideas. But the general current was politics and “progress” before God and the church. Typical stuff you’d find in a lot of modernist type groups, I just didn’t think they needed Internet forums to express those ideas since they already have most of western culture around them to do it.

Tbh I just looked for Christian discords in google and found theirs I had no idea what to expect.

It is precisely through those that the cancer spreads

I'm on a plebbit Catholic discord.

Incredibly knowledgeable about the faith and quite liturgically conservative, but of course, everyone's from Reddit so it's full of people who are just.... "soft".

Also, Japan's pretty cool.

Lots of Gadoligs out there, but literally the only thing that isn't Novus Ordo is SSPX. Not sure about the Ordodogs.

@Based Chav The Japanese Orthodox Church gained autonomy in 1970 and is independent with the caveat that the Patriarchate of Moscow still selects the Japanese Bishop. They follow the Julian calendar, but celebrate Christmas on the 25th as well as January 7th.

The Divine Liturgy is done in Classical Japanese as opposed to modern Japanese, and the Bible translation done by St. Nicholas of Japan which is still in use is in Classical Japanese to this day.

The above image is the Japanese Orthodox Church’s flag.

They have around 68 parishes around Japan.

Huh.

Credit where credit is due, the Orthos have done a far better job of Japan than the catholics have.

The current bishop since the year 2000 is Metropolitan Daniel Nushiro.

I know of at least one American who aspired to work under the Japanese Church as do I now and he was one their past bishops

@Based Chav nagasaki had the largest population of catholics in japan

had

His name is Seraphim Sigrist, born in Nyack, New York.

nagasaki is where the portugese docked and traded with the nips

so no big surprise there it had the most gadoligs