The following day, September 25, Dr. Sen conducted a ritual kencha tea offertory at the great Metropolitan Cathedral, which dominates the capital's main square, the Zocalo. Before it began, Dr. Sen met with Archbishop Don Norberto RIVERA Carrera and other priests, and personally prepared tea for them. For the kencha service, the Archbishop led him in to the cavernous cathedral, pronounced that he gave thanks for the blessed opportunity for the two distant nations (Mexico and Japan) to be joined in a spirit of prayer for peace, and then Dr. Sen sat at the tea table that had been set up, and prepared two tea offerings. The first, he personally placed before the greater altar, and the second was carried by a priest to the chapel dedicated to San Felipe de Jesús (1575-97), one of Mexico's patron saints, who was among the Franciscan missionaries martyred in Nagasaki, Japan, by order of TOYOTOMI Hideyoshi.
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