Anime Lectio: Sakamoto Days Parts One and Two

                                                            1. Why do Anime Lectio? 

Anime Lectio is a time for us to stop and take a breath. Between work, activities, family life, and social media, our minds are always moving. We rarely take time to contemplate and ask, why am I watching this anime? What’s the point of all this? And, how is this making me feel? 

2. Put away all distractions 

(phones, work, etc.)

We are so enslaved to things that stimulate our minds. Let this be a moment for us to free our minds, look inside of ourselves, and be at peace. The only device you need is the one you use for this blog.

3. Deep Breathing - Open yourself to God’s Presence

Take several deep breaths. Let your mind relax. If you’ve had any questions, desires, or struggles that

you’ve been hiding or stuffing away, let them rise up to the surface. Remember God places all our

thoughts and desires inside of us, and He uses them to draw us closer to Himself. God gives us a

community to help us understand who we are and what He is calling us to do. The faces of people you

know and don't know are like signs of God’s presence. 

4. Think About What’s on Your Mind in Relation to the Anime

Think about what’s been on your mind in relation to the anime.  The following is an example of such thoughts written by me. 

Love makes people do crazy things.  This depends on several things, like the person who falls in love, and what they are like at the time, the person who is the target of the love, and what they are like, and the conditions for the two to stay in love.  An example of this can be seen in the first two parts of the series Sakamoto Days.

5. Brief and written explanation of the anime

Pay attention to how the brief and written explanation of the anime seen on this blog, or seeing the anime for yourself since that's better than any explanation, might “speak” to you or shed light on the things that have been on your minds.

After a legendary assassin falls in love with a woman he happens to see once at a convenience store, he decides to quit his life as an assassin and start a family with the woman he falls in love with (and help her with the convenience store where they met - they also have a daughter together) .  However, other assassins are after this legendary assassin and due to his wife's rule of not being allowed to kill anyone anymore in order for them to stay together, this former assassin, who still has legendary skills despite looking like he let himself go, manages to fight off these other assassins without killing them.  While some of these other assassins end up helping this former assassin, and become like him in terms of not killing anymore either in order to continue helping him, most don't.  This also involves figuring out how to get into the headquarters of the assassins who are after the former assassin, which they eventually figure out how to do and is what the first two parts ends with.

6.  Reflect on the anime

Has this brief and written explanation of the anime shed any light on what's been on your minds?  The following is an example of a reflection on the anime from me.

The craziest thing that love makes people do is change, which is something that everyone does, whether they want to or not since it happens (and it can be without you knowing how it happens). This is also why everyone has experiences of love, even if it's different for everyone based on who they are, who, and/or what, they fall in love with, and what they are willing to do because of it, which is something to think/pray about.

7. Final Prayer

Please voice any prayer intentions for friends, family, or people around the world that relate to this anime.  The following is an example written by me.

Let us pray that we can understand how and why love makes us change based on things like who we are.