Prayer at the 28th Commemoration of Father's Release from Hungnam

Sun Myung Moon
October 14, 1978
Chun-sung Mountain Holy Ground, Chung Pyung, Korea

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Loving Heavenly Father,

We gather today here at this holy ground -- Chun-sung Mountain. I remember well the workshop we held ten years ago, centering on the late President Eu. It seems as though it was just yesterday. I determined then to live with the deepest desire to advance Your Will.

Father! Your children have gathered at this place today. Please allow them to become the people who can understand the most earnest situation of Your heart. I know that this nation cannot survive without Your protection. Please love Korea. I pray for Your protection -- please do not abandon Your sorrowful people.

You know that I fought so much persecution in America. It was all on behalf of Korea. I know that a people without a nation is woeful indeed, so I accepted this course with a deep sense of pride. I am so grateful that You assisted me. You know that if the day comes when the enemies celebrate victory, it would be a day when heaven and earth would be filled with darkness. You worried about this, protecting me and placing on me the name of victor.

Now I have returned to this land of Korea. Oh Heavenly Father, I pray that You will not withdraw this heavenly blessing which has been given so earnestly with the heart of the Father.

This nation is now in the miserable position of the orphan. Please do not abandon this nation. Observing the political situation of Japan, the position of China and the Soviet Union, and the reality of the present domestic and international policies of the United States, I beg You to protect this nation.

Let us, the members of the Unification Church, march forward over the next three years. Let us hold on to the Father's heart, struggling to make Korea a nation which heaven cannot abandon as a sacrificial offering.

I pray that in this way we can quickly see the day when You can be happy, all mankind can be happy, the people of Korea can be happy; the third seven-year course is finished in 1981, so Korea can be proud of the Unification Church, and heaven and earth can be proud of the Unification Church.

Father! Now Your sons and daughters are ready to offer their blood, sweat and tears on the altar of heaven. I earnestly ask that You allow them to become the high priests of home church.

Although there are many nations, the United States, Japan and those in Europe, I hope that the Korean people will remain a special part of Your heart by their sincere devotion. They have tenaciously survived until now, withstanding much persecution, being driven and trampled upon. I earnestly hope and pray that the Unification members can create a relationship in which You will love and remember this nation and Your sympathy will remain with the Korean people.

I pray today, Heavenly Father, that You will directly watch over everything that happens after this time. Please remember these mountains and hills and these children gathered here, determined to devote themselves with their effort and unity; please reach out with Your grace to the Unification members throughout the world who are praying while missing this place, and I pray that You will bless them as they march forward toward the victorious realm of love.

Today we have entrusted everything to You. Oh Father, please guide everything. I proclaim before You in the name of True Parents: please command all the good spirits and angelic world to appear wherever Your children are present, centering on home church and on the supranational, supra-religious and supratribal foundation.

Now, following the name of the True Parents, and following the direction of the True Parents wherever they kneel and pray, please direct all spirit world to unite; please allow the Unification Church members to become the people who can more than fulfill the responsibility of establishing the tribal realm, representing the substantial Adamic realm, and fulfill the responsibility of true savior and True Parents on the tribal level.

Heavenly Father, today is a day of remembrance; as the providence of the Unification Church expands, home church will reach more and more people. Please be there wherever this happens. Evil spirits were blocked from receiving any benefit up till now. I am declaring in the name of True Parents that, from this time on, they may receive assistance by helping their descendants. Oh Father, please direct all spirit men to follow this, and grant us the blessing to drive all · spirit men to that direction.

I sincerely pray that all the things You have granted and all the things that are newly declared be bound together and be decided in both the physical and spiritual world. I pray all these things in the name of True Parents.

Amen.