Program for Peace Starts With Me April 6, 2019 Holy Blessing

Welcome Good morning church! God wants to pour out blessings today. Are you ready to receive them? (Yes) Awesome! Before we begin the Blessing Ceremony. Let’s turn our attention to the video screen for a few minutes.

Blessing Intro Blessing Intro Video Plays Video

Scarves Now it’s your turn to receive the Blessing. To bring Everyone places the scarf around us into one accord, please reach into your bags and their neck. pull out the white Blessing scarf inside and place it around your shoulders. And, if you’re here with your spouse make sure you’re seated next to each other.

Entrance of To officiate this Blessing today, please rise and 8-12 Attending Couples enter on to Attending welcome up to the stage (titles and names of the stage, followed by the officiators Couples and officiators). and two attendants. Officiators

Holy Wine Thank you. Now I would like to call the Representative Couples rise from Dedication representative couples to please come forward. their seats and come before the (pause) Following the lead of the representative Officiators. couples, we will all take part in the Holy Wine As soon as the Representative Dedication. Brothers and sisters let’s open up our Couples are in place, the wife of hearts and welcome in the Holy Spirit to do each representative couple receives something awesome in our families today. In drinking their holy wine cup from the this Holy Wine we are cleansing ourselves of past Officiator husband, who receives it mistakes, and making a fresh, new covenant with God from his wife, who receives it from to love and cherish each other as God does. To take the attendant. Each Representative part in the dedication, please take the Holy Wine cup Couple wife than drinks half and out of your bag and open the top. For couples, wives passes it to her husband, who drinks please drink half of one cup and with a bow pass it to the other half. The attendants collect your husband to drink the other half. Then bow to the emptied cups. each other. Everyone else please drink the whole cup.

Anointing Please remain standing as the Officiators ask for Officiators sprinkle holy water on God’s anointing on all of us. the representative couples.

Affirmation of Thank you officiators for that anointing. God called Attendant gives folder to Officiators. Vows Father and Mother Moon to stand as True Parents by Officiators read the vow, and wait expanding the grace of Jesus from the individual to for the response from the the couple. Now, God is calling all faith leaders and congregation. Attendant takes the all parents to stand as true parents to their families, folder back from the Officiators once communities and nations, in order to bring peace to the vow has been read. the world. All couples and parents will now have the opportunity to rededicate your marriages and families through an affirmation of vows. Please respond with a firm “Yes” to the vow read by the Officiators.

Blessing Prayer Halleluiah! The Officiators will now complete the Officiators offer a short prayer. Each Blessing Ceremony with a Prayer of Blessing. spouse of the couple may pray or just Couples please take each other’s hands for the prayer. the husband.

Proclamation of The Officiators will now read the Proclamation of the Attendant hands officiators the the Blessing Blessing. folder, and officiators read the Proclamation with hands extended.

Recession of Congratulations!! You may now kiss your spouse. Officiators leave the stage preceded Officiators Let’s thank our officiators for sharing this blessing by the attending couples. with us today, representing Father and Mother Moon, as they take their leave of the stage.

Closing Finally, let’s thank the Almighty God, who brought Remarks us here, and bestowed this Blessing on us today. (Applause) Thank you for joining Blessing America!