The Invitation Letter of Great Ceremony of Vu Lan via ZOOM[1] 2564 – 2020
Please join ZOOM of Pháp Nhãn Temple with ID: 5610740808 and PW: 886181
Please download the following link into your laptop, I-pad, or smart phone.
https://us04web.zoom.us/j/5610740808?pwd=YksxUUxXaCtzZG5KUktqSmYvYk1lZz09
at 09:30 am and we will start at 10:00 am on Sunday, September 13, 2020
To: Dear Monastics, lay Buddhists, and everyone,
Discourse on Showing Great Gratitude to Parents states: “On the Full Moon Day of yearly lunar July, people with filial piety and deep gratitude have to repay their parents.” Indeed, when the Vu Lan Ceremonial Season comes, everyone spends their free time going to the Temple so that they can practice the Buddhadharma and attend the Vu Lan Ceremony together happily.
The Vu Lan is a most important Spiritual Cultural Festival yearly to Vietnamese Buddhists, consisting of the following events: The first is praying blessings for the living parents arousing virtuous merit and longevity. The second is praying blessings for those who passed away were born up to a peaceful realm. The third is praying blessings for oneself and for others getting peaceful joy and happiness, and the fourth is praying blessings for the world peace, people obtaining peaceful joy. Through learning, understanding, practicing, spreading, and applying the Dharma into our daily lives, we can enjoy flowers and fruits of the Dharma pleasure for ourselves and for others right here and right now in the present life.
This year, because pandemic spread everywhere, to contribute to preventing epidemics, Pháp Nhãn Temple will hold the ONLINE VU LAN – Parents’ Day Ceremony on Sunday, September 6, 2020. Please send your dead loved Ones’ names or your living loved Ones’ names to the Temple at the address above so that the Temple can chant and pray peace for them all.
Wholeheartedly praying for effectively early vaccines to treat this pandemic quickly being ended.
The schedule for the Ceremonial Day will take place as follows:
09:30 am You are welcome to ZOOM
10:00 am Officially great Ceremony of Filial Vu Lan
via ZOOM
10:00 am Introduce Participants
10:10 am The meanings of the Rose Ceremony
10:30 am The meanings of Parents’ Ceremonial Day
11:00 am Dharma talk about the meanings of Gratitude
in Buddhism
11:30 am Chanting Vu Lan’s Gatha and Sharing Merit
May you and your loved ones be well, healthy, and happy in the Dharma.
The Abbot of the Pháp Nhãn Temple
Dharma Teacher Thích Trừng Sỹ
Detailed Program
Great Ceremony of Filial Vu Lan via ZOOM
Recite the title of the Buddha
Introduce participants (Personal introduction)
Reading Opening speech (Sister Hạnh Minh in Austin, TX.)
Read the meanings of the Rose being pinned on your
pocket (Phuong Trang, Houston, TX)
The Rose Song (Phương Trang and
Right Mindfulness Singers Group, Houston, TX.)
Read the Feelings of Parents’ Ceremonial Day
(Senior Nun Hạnh Huệ, LA, California)
The Parents song for Children
(Right Mindfulness Singers Group, Houston, TX.)
Dharma Talk about the meanings of Gratitude in
Buddhism (Ven. Thích Trừng Sỹ)
The song I owe you mother
(Right Mindfulness Singers Group, Houston, TX.)
Chant Filial Vu Lan Gatha and Sharing the Merit
together
Closing
[1] Please join Zoom of Pháp Nhãn Temple with ID: 5610740808 and pw: 886181
at 09:30 am we will start at 10:00 am on Sunday, September 13, 2020
