To : Continental Directors,
Regional Leaders, National Messiahs, National Leaders
From : FFWPU International
Office
Date : January 5, 2001
Title : Main Points from the 34th True God's Day
Happy 34th True
God's Day.
We wish you much
success during the coming year, the 9th year of Completed Testament Era. May you
receive the complete love and blessing of God and True
Parents.
The commemorative
celebration of the 34th True God's Day was held at Chungpyung Heaven and
Earth Training center.
1. Motto for the
Year(2001)
May the liberated Parents of
Heaven and Earth and the children, by uniting as one mind and one body, fulfill
the will of true love's subjective character, which is absolute,
unique, unchanging and eternal.
During the midnight
prayer of January 1, 2001, True Father consoled God's broken heart, for no one
had liberated it during 2000 years of history. True Father offered His heartfelt
appreciation to God for His thorny path to pioneer the way of liberation, the
Heavenly and Earthly Parents and children becoming one heart and one body based
on the liberation of God and True Parents at the opening of the Completed
Testament Era. This was a new beginning for the third millennium, and
establishing the completed condition of God's absolute, unique, unchanging and
eternal will in the world.
True Father stated that
January 1, 2001 was a first day toward the year of 3000 closing the
2000-year-long history of Christianity on Sunday, December 31, 2000.
True Father explained that the new motto meant that "by becoming one in mind and one in body, the liberated Heavenly and Earthly Parents and the liberated children will perfect the liberated realm of the absolute, unique, unchanging and eternal Kingdom of Heaven in heaven and on earth that has true love's subjective character." He stated that because the previous age of 2000 years up until December 31, 2000--the course of worldwide indemnity centered on the second Israel--had now ended, and a new age, when we were able to achieve the cosmic expansion of the ideal of blessing in this Completed Testament Era centered on this True God's Day, began, the new motto was not just for this one time, but would remain as an eternal motto even in the spiritual world. Thus we should complete the will of the Heavenly and Earthly Parents, knowing how precious the value of family is in this time and making conditions of one heart and one body.
2. Main Directions
1) Change in
the Way to End Prayer
Previously we closed
our prayers with "I pray in the name of [name], of a blessed family
that has inherited True Parents' realm of victory through the
blessing," and on True Children's Day another form was
adopted for prayer (only) in the home. However, from January 1 on, we are
instructed to end our prayers with the slightly modified, "I
report in the name of OOO, a central blessed family."
Blessed families that have inherited True Parents' realm of complete
victory must live a life of taking responsibility for everything themselves.
Father said, "We must report our substantial results daily in front
of God's will from a position of not being ashamed."
True Father said that because the age has arrived when we are to report our
actual results joyfully and proudly to God as those who are in the position of
being in direct communication face to face with Him. That is why we should pray
in this way.
<Prayer
of a blessed member>
ex1) I
report in the name of [name of husband or wife], a central blessed family.
Amen.
ex2) I report in the name of [name], son
(daughter) of [name of father], a central blessed family. Amen.
<Prayer
of someone who has not received the blessing>
I report in the name of True Parents.
Amen.
2) The Holy
Wine Ceremony
True Father instructed
all blessed families in the world to drink the holy wine once more in order to
become a central figure of the new providential age, the settlement age of God's
Kingship. It is significant, first as the condition to go beyond the age of the
national blessing, second, to be qualified as the person who can attend the
Coronation Ceremony for the Kingship of God, and third, to establish the
standard to become the family in which the kingship is settled, by repenting for
our previous wrong life and becoming one heart and one body between the parents
and children. Therefore all blessed families should drink the holy wine on a
separate occasion from the holy wine ceremony at the Registration Blessing
Ceremony they participate in at the Chungpyung Training Center.
a. Order of
Holy Wine Ceremony:
Holy songs, Kyoungbae, Family pledge,
Prayer, Holy Wine ceremony, Prayer of gratitude.
b. Venue for the
ceremony: In each home
c. Procedure of
drinking the holy wine: Mother - Father - Children
3) Total
Living Offering Donation
Father has said that
the Total Living Offering Donation has the providential meaning that we can
liberate God and offer everything that we own to Heaven.As it is such an
important offering, all blessed families should offer this in welcoming the age
of registration.
We are instructed that
the Total Living Offering donation should not be used for each nation but for
the worldwide providence of Heavenly Father. Therefore, by January 31, 2001, the
leaders of each nation should report the amount of donation that has been
offered up until this time, according to the form below.
Nation:
No. |
Name |
Blessing
Group |
Amount |
Remarks | |
Husband |
Wife | ||||
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Total |
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From 6 o'clock in the
evening the cultural entertainment for True God's Day was held, jointly
organized by the Korean and Japanese church headquarters. Notably, some of the
True Children (Hyo-jin nim, Hyun-jin nim, Kook-jin nim, Hyung-jin nim) gave
excellent performances, and True Parents sang for the finale. It was a unique
moment. We could feel our oneness under the culture of shimjung. All
those in attendance made their new resolutions and determinations for the new
millennium.
3. Directions for
International Leaders Meeting
May God's
glory be abundant from 2001 till 3000 !
We are sincerely
grateful to meet the age of the Kingdom of Heaven on earth and in heaven on this
new morning of the era of the fourth Adam, passing through a long period of
darkness for 2000 years and victoriously transcending the three ages of the
indemnity of the first Israel, the second Israel and the third
Israel.
May our
Heavenly Father welcome the reign of peace! May He say Amen for thousands of
years!
Thank you. Thank you.
What we must do for God
as the people who have completely inherited the liberated realm of Heavenly and
Earthly Parents is to become the liberated owner of the realm of the four great
realms of heart. True Father gave us twelve directions so that we might complete
the liberated realm, as follows:
1. We will
perfect the way of true filial sons and daughters.
2. We will
perfect the way of true loyal persons.
3. We will
perfect the way of true saints and sages.
4. We will
perfect the way of true Holy sons and daughters.
5. We will
become the owners of the true ideal family.
6. We will
become the owners of the true ideal nation.
7. We will
become the owners of the true ideal world.
8. We will
become the owners of the true ideal cosmos.
9. We will
become the owners of the true realm of oneness of God and humankind in
love.
10. We will
inherit the right of inheritance of true ideal love and hand down from
generation to generation.
11. We will
receive recognition from the cosmos for being a person perfected in the true
love of God.
12. We will
become bold people in the restoration of God's fatherland, inheriting God's true
love in the cosmos.
Our dear Heavenly Father, please allow our families to inherit Your blessing through all future generations! Amen.
4. Resolutions at the Continental Leaders' Meeting
Each nation will need to prepare for the second 400 million couples blessing in every nation, and in particular to prepare blessing candidates who will participate in the main blessing ceremony in the USA, according to the following information:
1.Each
nation should absolutely send one couple to the main ceremony in America, and
for this it should prepare three couples as candidates.
2.Blessing
documents have been sent to the world mission office in Seoul. But please submit
them to your continental office from now on.
3.Attire for
the blessing participants in America should be typical traditional wedding dress
or national costume.
4.Arrival of
participants: Blessing candidates should arrive at the New Yorker Hotel, New
York city, by January 25, 2001. They will be able to depart from January
30.
5.Accommodation and
meals will be paid for by the WCSF organizing committee. Air tickets for those
participants, however, will not be paid for.
Sun Jo Hwang