Hak Ja Han
August 27, 2018
True Parent's Invocation of the Blessing for the 2018 Hyojeong Cosmic Blessing Ceremony
Cheongshim Peace World Center
Our awesome Creator, God, our Heavenly Parent, the owner of true love! How you have steadfastly longed for this day to come! To fulfill your dream, you created all things and the first ancestors of humankind, Adam and Eve, whom you hoped would become the True Parents. However, due to the Fall, our Heavenly Parent had no choice but to carry out the begrudged providence of restoration through indemnity.
Your sorrow and toil filled the providence of restoration through indemnity. You struggled to establish a people and through them, you finally sent Jesus Christ, your only son, for the first time. Yet, human beings, ignorant of Heaven's providence, anguished you once again. Central figures who had given birth to Jesus did not fulfill their responsibilities and Christ had no choice but to die on the cross. He left behind a promise that he would come again and hold the marriage supper of the Lamb.
The Christian Church began based on earnest hearts, revival by the Holy Spirit and the desire to await the Messiah, who had said he would return; yet, Christianity was not attuned to his essence and to Heavenly Parent's miserable providence. This is the reality of Christianity today. Heavenly Parent, you have worked so hard! In front of you, regret and remorse fill my heart.
After the long period of two thousand years, you succeeded in sending your only daughter through the [Korean] people. Then in 1960, your only daughter met your only son and they rose to the position of the True Parents. However, Christianity failed to provide an environment, leaving the True Parents to start from the very bottom with the blessing of three couples.
Fallen human beings cannot enter into your presence without going through the True Parents. True Parents know Heavenly Parent's circumstances and they know humankind's wish. Therefore, from that time on, for fifty-eight years, True Parents have given birth to many blessed couples and through those couples, children in their second and third generations are here today to receive the blessing as good brides and good grooms.
Heavenly Parent! How deeply you have longed patiently for this day! Although we are unworthy, we know that through True Parents, the path to enter into your presence, Heavenly Parent, has opened as well as the way to Cheon Il Guk, which is the beginning of a new era and a new history. Today, in this moment, we not only have those who are receiving the blessing here, but we are together with blessed families who are participating all over the world.
We pledge centering on Heavenly Parent, together with all 7.6 billion people of the world, to fulfill our responsibilities by achieving your dream, True Parents' hope, and humankind's hope, which is to build heaven on earth as one human family with absolute faith, absolute love, and absolute obedience as filial sons and daughters, loyal subjects of Heaven.
Heavenly Parent! Please receive this prayer with joy. We are undeserving, yet we promise that until the day we leave earth, we will advance without ceasing to achieve your dream. I pray and proclaim this in the name of the True Parents. Aju!