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On Anniversary of Tsunami, the Vatican Remembers with Mozart

On Anniversary of Tsunami, the Vatican Remembers with Mozart

Last updated on: September 30, 2016 at 3:53 pm by Kathy Schiffer

On Anniversary of Tsunami, the Vatican Remembers with Mozart 2016-09-30T15:53:28-05:00 Kathy Schiffer

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Three years after the earthquake and tsunami which afflicted Japan in 2011, Rome remembers with music.

Organized with the support of the Japanese embassy to the Holy See, “Mozart’s Requiem for Japan from the Vatican” will be held today in the Basilica of St. Paul Outside-the-Walls. The Gioacchino Rossini Symphony Orchestra of Pesaro and the San Carlo choir, also from Pesaro, will perform Mozart’s Requiem under maestro Daniele Agiman.

The tsunami which flooded Japan’s eastern coastal regions cost the lives of over seventeen thousand people, caused fifty thousand casualties and left four thousand missing. Hundreds of thousands were left with nothing.

The cooling system at Japan’s Fukushima nuclear power plant failed, causing nuclear leaks and necessitating the evacuation of the area around the plant.

Bishop Isao Kikuchi, SVD, President of Caritas Japan, asked again today for support and prayers because, he says, there are still people “in the disaster hit area who are not able to regain their hope for the future and who are living in the darkness of despair and loss.”

Following, courtesy of Vatican Radio, is Bishop Kikuchi’s message for the third anniversary of the earthquake and tsunami.

Dear friends,

Three years have passed since the massive earthquake and tsunami hit Tohoku area of Japan which destroyed and changed lives of so many people in Japan. More than seventeen thousand lives were taken away.

After the disaster, in the chaotic aftermath of such a massive destruction of daily lives, we became optimistic of recovery. We thought, considering the economic strength and technological advancement of Japan, three years would be quite enough for the disaster hit area to return to normal life.

It is not so. More than 270,000 people are not able to return to their homes. Almost as many are still living in temporary shelters. As for the nuclear power plants in Fukushima, no one actually knows what are really going on inside the damaged plants though the prime minister already made a statement during international gatherings that everything is under control.

The disaster hit area is under the Catholic Diocese of Sendai and Caritas Japan has been supporting the relief efforts of the diocese. Entire Catholic Church communities in Japan have worked together to support Sendai diocese. Recently in February, we Catholic Bishops of Japan renewed our resolution to continue the effort to mobilize entire Catholic communities in Japan for another 3 years. The Catholic Church in our country is committed to accompanying people in the disaster hit area as long as they need us. So we still need your support and prayers.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank all of you, our friends in the Caritas family, for your generous support and prayers for Japan. We are so grateful for your gestures of solidarity. As I mentioned above, while thanking all of you from bottom of my heart, I am obliged to renew our appeal for help to be with all these people in the disaster hit area who are not able to regain their hope for the future and who are living in the darkness of despair and loss.

Thank you so much for your generosity and may God bless you all.

Bishop Isao Kikuchi, SVD
President, Caritas Japan

Gioacchino Rossini Symphony Orchestra

Japanese Embassy to the Holy See

Mozart's Requiem for Japan from the Vatican

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