Blessed 54thTrue Children's Day!
2013-11-03 · Source: tparents.org
th Blessed 54 True Children’s Day!
1st Day of the 10th Month of Year One of CHEON IL GUK Sunday, November 3, 2013 solar Established on October 1, 1960 by the lunar calendar
and th Blessed 26 Foundation Day for the Unified Nation of Heaven and Earth! Established on October 3, 1988 by the solar calendar
Children of the World, Unite!
Children of the world, unite! Together we must change the wrong to right. We must learn to live quite happily Beside our fellow man. Peace will guide the way, Lay down the sword, take up the pen. And the world will join us in our peaceful fight. Children of the world, unite!
True Children’s Day 2007
True Father established Children’s Day on October 1, 1960 according to the lunar calendar.
From The Tradition, Book One concerning True Children’s Day:
It signifies that God and True Parents had their own true children, and on this basis, all humanity has the potential to become engrafted to the True Family. True Parents stand spiritually as the source of life. The world will be reorganized into God’s lineage by being grafted into the True Father and True Mother and True Children of this universe. The establishment of the True Family was the prerequisite for the establishment of Children’s Day. Before anyone can declare himself to be a true child, they need the assent of three persons – God, True Father, and True Mother. To become true children, one must become engrafted to the True Parents.
True Father, May 2004, from FFWPU United States
From True Father’s words in The Way of God’s Will, p.58
God has not been able to
(1) Love man as His child, (2) Have His child marry, and (3) Love one such family.
Therefore, He works to restore them. From True Father’s Children’s Day message, August 4, 1974:
The misery of the Garden of Eden resulted in tears and sadness. Therefore, the reunion between Father and children must begin in a beautiful longing process — beautiful longing, missing. Can you understand? Are you living that tradition?
From True Mother’s words in Japan on August 3, 1967, from pp. 94 and 95 of The Heart of True Mother
To all of you:
Please become a child whom God can trust and rely on in every respect and children who can inherit the heavenly mission. …
True Mother, circa 1973, via PeaceTV
Whenever you go through suffering, remember Father’s face — Father, who is always worried about you, behind you, always praying for you. Please feel strong because you have Father who thinks of you and desperately tries to help you. I hope that you will become children who can endure any kind of challenge and can spread truth and love to the ends of the earth. The path to become true children whom Father can love with true love is most of all to experience Father’s heart, understand Father’s heart, and then make Father’s heart your own heart.
True Father and early followers, from the video found here: cheonil.tongil.or.kr/main/boardvod/boardcontent.html?&no=45&code=MENU72&page=1&listnum=1 5
True Family observes True Parents’ Golden Wedding Anniversary on April 29, 2010
From True Father’s Children’s Day message, November 5, 1983:
Today is Children’s Day but what kind of children are we talking about? We are talking about true children who are born in the realm of God’s love, grow up there and marry there, becoming perfected children of God. Were you born in the realm of God’s love to True Parents? You have already been born and you are a reality on this earth. Since you cannot ever go back and be physically born again, we must create a way to achieve the same goal. Therefore the Unification Church follows the process of indemnity.
The True Father and Mother have given physical birth to thirteen children. While those children were growing within their mother’s womb, the members of the Unification Church took the position of spiritual twins to them. Although they could not actually be inside the mother’s womb, they could feel that they were a twin to those True Children. … The elder members of the church understood this concept and prayed earnestly to create such a bridge between themselves and the True Children.
True Mother said (from p. 138 of The Heart of True Mother)
When God dwells in every home, then parents and children will have God’s love and hope. With families as the cornerstone of society, then our nations and world will become very beautiful and filled with God’s love. We will all be one family under God.
True Mother and members of True Family on August 28, 2013, on the occasion of the initial distribution of the newly published Cheon Seong Gyeong and Pyeong Hwa Gyeong in Japanese 신인애 일체이상을 이루어 Shin -in -ae il-che -i-sang-eul i-ru-eo, God humankind love oneness / bring together ideal achieve God and humankind in love ideal of oneness
8. Our family, the owner of Cheon Il Guk, pledges, having entered the era of Cheon Il Guk, to achieve the ideal of God and humankind in love, through absolute faith, absolute love and absolute obedience, and to perfect the realm of liberation and complete freedom, in the Kingdom of God on Earth and in Heaven, by centering on true love.
True Parents observe the Foundation Day of the Unified Cosmos October 3, 2004
In declaring the Foundation Day for the Unified Nation of Heaven and Earth on October 3, 1988, True Father prayed:
Father! I know how much You have been disappointed and driven to despair in the course of guiding me thus far, so please forgive this son of Yours. Also, I pray You will forgive at this hour all the wrongdoings committed by the members as they followed me through the process of establishing the Unification Church. Don’t leave them in wretchedness, but please embrace them in Your bosom so that they can receive the blessing of Heaven as the standard-bearers and warriors You desired and as the princes of love You have appointed, and please establish them as Your children in whom You would not feel ashamed to take pride. … I have declared to forgive with the love of True Parents everyone, from the very first of our ancestors in the spirit world to the succeeding generations to the five billion world population currently living on earth, even those in the communist world … and even the president of the United States … and such people. To do so, I have presented to Heaven all the necessary conditional offerings, so please allow all this not to go to waste, but instead have them embedded in Your realm of heart together with the declaration that can bring together both worlds, and make use of them as the driving force propelling us into the liberated world, and accept them as such. …
Foundation Day for the Nation of the Unified World has been declared along with the liberation of all nations on the foundation of the epochal point placing the unified realm of heart of True Parents. Therefore, may all those in heaven and on earth who have ears and eyes hear and see and cooperate in this great task to march forward into the unified world of liberation.
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From True Father’s profound Prayer on August 28, 1971:
Let us understand clearly that although we have become the children of disappointment and despair living under the pressure of wretchedness, in the midst of this, Heavenly light approaches, and with that light becoming the dividing path, the new Kingdom of Heaven is opened here and thus the luminous Heavenly glory begins.
Photo of our True Parents’ on the occasion of the 52nd True Children’s Day and of the 24th Foundation Day for the Unified Nation of Heaven and Earth on October 29, 2011
On this holy day on October 29, 2011, True Father said:
Whenever you gather on such a day, it is a question whether or not you are unchangeably the central group in front of the nation and the world.
You always have to think that unless you can be united with God, you cannot establish the unified world, not only in the present nation and the present time we live in, but also in the past we passed through, and in the future world we are facing. Without being united with God, you cannot establish it eternally even in the spirit world because there is still a problem or assignment left to be solved.
In front of such a big assignment of the cosmos, we have to fulfill our responsibility, being united in mind, gathering our determinations, overcoming the boundaries of Dong [village], Myeon [township], nation and the world even though we are a small group. Except for us, no one knows that our responsibility is still unfulfilled.
Only we know it, but it is not sure when we have to carry out our duties. No one knows the time. Then, do we prepare for it? No. It is the reality that we also cannot prepare for it. Those who cannot prepare for it are always miserable people.
When we hurry to prepare for it, we have to show the purpose of the preparation and how valuable the preparation is. We have to possess the value and open up a new way for brothers and sisters in the future and in the spirit world. Without having a bursting spirit to be loyal to such a world, we are eternally unable to overcome the world.
Tomorrow should be more joyful than today. We should inherit today’s joy and hand down more joy to all our descendants. Please be determined that today’s gathering should be such a gathering and that we should become such a group in the cosmos.
Such a determined heart is a flower of heart. When such a heart flowers and wells up in your heart in front of the nation, world and cosmos, you can listen to God’s joyful voice in your life. It is possible to experience such a time in the cosmos. Don’t forget it. You have to become people who commit themselves to being loyal to the world. I wish you now would make more determination.
I pray that this meeting flowers and shines and that the world becomes God’s unified kingdom where God can dwell and we can live together in the original garden of the family.
Happy True Children’s Day!
Happy Foundation Day for the Unified Nation of Heaven and Earth!