True Father’s Universal Seonghwa Memorial Ceremony

On Sunday, September 23rd, 40 members, religious leaders, Peace Ambassadors and other guests gathered in our Unification Church HQ to pay respect and honor to our beloved True Father. The MC welcomed everybody to the “Seonghwa Memorial Ceremony for our beloved True Parent, Savior of the World, Peace King in the Cosmos and True Parent of Heaven, Earth and all Mankind” - a ceremony not experienced before and never again to happen in the future. Everyone could feel this was not an ordinary event, but rather a historic and most significant day for our nation and for each one present. The singing of our CIG national anthem and opening prayer by UPF chairman Thorkil Christensen created a solemn atmosphere. MC Karsten Nielsen mentioned in his introduction to the video “Reverend Moon – A Tribute” that our True Father’s life was filled tears, his life was a thorny path of sweat, blood and tears, but also a life of great faith, hope and true love expressed in True Father’s laughter and ecstatic moments of joy and happiness. After the video our national leader Nobuhiro Igarashi reported about True Fathers recent Seonghwa in Korea and taught everybody about the deep meaning of Seonghwa. Peace Ambassadors Bashy Qureshi, chairman of “European Network Against Racism”, Eric Nordesgaard, from the European Church of Scientology and a Christian evangelist, Peter Karangi, testified of how they had known Father Moon and the movement and how they appreciate all the work being done. Thorkil Christensen shared about his long involvement with the Unification Movement and read an important part of True Fathers speech from September 20 th, 1976. Sibeal Hill and Liz Bramsen offered to beautiful songs of praise before everybody came to offer flowers on the altar for our beloved True Father. In concluding the ceremony UPF general secretary Jørgen Bramsen led all in three cheers of Eog Mansei.