Let us make the filial affection toward Heavenly Parent and True Parents become the beacon of the world - Sermon in Chamarande, France

Let us make the filial affection toward Heavenly Parent and True Parents become the beacon of the world 하늘대한 효정 세상의 빛으로 Sermon for Joint Sunday Service of Paris Region Chamarande, France, 2. October 2016 by Special Emissary No Hi PAK

B eloved blessed families and members of Paris I believe that many of you have watched the 4th region, especially many 2nd generations! Good Anniversary of True Father’s Seonghwa celebrations, held morning! It has been quite a while since I met on August 19(by heavenly calendar July 17) at you all. I am so delighted to see you again this Cheongpyung, via internet broadcast or the European News Sunday morning. video clips. Last August 15, I returned to Korea for participating in the I also took part in the celebrations held in the Cheongshim 4th Anniversary Seongwha Ceremony of our beloved True Peace World Center under attending True Parents, together Father. And after attending the events and the Cheon Il Guk with leaders from all parts of the world and more than Leaders Conference, I spent some enjoyable time with my 20,000 members from Korea and Japan, including the 1,200 family, especially my grandchildren, whom I had not seen second generations from all over the world who for a while. participated in the Top Gun Workshop. And the ceremony My original plan was to take part in the European was so amazing and magnificent. I could not help but be International Leaders Conference, as well as the moved to tears. Inauguration of the International Association of Parliamentarians for Peace, held in London, UK from ‘Seonghwa Festival’ commemorating the 4th September 7 to 9, and to come to Paris afterwards. But due Anniversary of True Father’s Seonghwa to personal reasons I returned a few days later than planned. This time the 4th anniversary celebrations of Seonghwa I am well aware that, during this time, you have performed was held under a completely different concept. When the the Ceremony of Holy Wine and received the Four Great International Headquarters staff first began preparing for Holy Items bequeathed by True Parents, on the foundation Seonghwa Memorial Day, True Mother said to them, of your forty-day devotion. Thus, you have begun the second half of the year of 2016 with new resolution and “The Seonghwa Memorial Day celebrations held this year heart of devotion. should go beyond memorializing True Father’s Seonghwa

itself. It should be a joyful and glorious festival that Unification Movement to also become a religion of the joy celebrates the ‘Manifestation of True Parents on Earth’ and and victory of True Parents’ Manifestation, and to their victorious lives.” propagate the Divine Principle and his words, Heavenly She also added, “The leaders and members who take part in Truth to save all human beings. this year’s celebrations should return with great experiences True Mother said that we should not think, “I am glad True of the ‘Revolution of the Culture of Heart’ advocated by Father was born on this earth, and I am sad that he has True Mother.” passed away”, because this is a very short-term concept. As you all knew, True Mother offered devotions by Instead, we should think, “True Parents have been attending True Father through the ‘three-year special manifested on this earth”, as a long-term concept, for then mourning period’ with all of her heart and soul. that fact becomes in itself an eternal joy and victory. On this foundation, the Unification Church family should After all, no living beings can live forever on earth. True no longer think of True Father’s Seonghwa with sorrow and Parents has been manifested on earth and lived victorious regret internally. True Parents came to earth with the long- lives, and they built the foundation for the salvation of all awaited ‘Mission of the Messiah’ through the 6,000-year peoples and the world of peace. This historic significance history, and have settled down on earth as the ‘True Parents of their lives will live on earth and in history forever. of Humankind’. Now, we, the blessed children of True Parents, and our Therefore, True Mother has declared that it is now our second and third generations coming after us, should make mission and our given task to boast of his Providential the victorious lives of True Parents a historic fact that victories and lifetime achievements of True Father in front shines eternally in joy and glory. Then we can everlastingly of all human beings and history. serve our True Parents, who will live forever with us. That is why this year’s Seonghwa Festival was entitled The International Headquarters followed these clear-sighted “Filial Affection Toward Heaven and True Father becomes instructions of True Mother and succeeded in making this the Beacon of the World”. I was deeply moved when I saw year’s celebrations into the ‘Seonghwa Festival’ this title and slogan. beautifully. All members who attended the celebrations came to remember True Father’s great life with joy, and This term, ‘filial affection’ was newly coined by True they shed tears of joy and resolution in their conviction that Mother. When you think about the meaning of its Chinese his life will shine forevermore as an immortal star in characters, you can see what deep meaning the term has. It history. brings together the words ‘filial piety(효도)’ and ‘heartfelt affection(심정)’. And this term clearly expresses our heart I heard that True Mother gave very detailed advice even on toward our True Father. decorating the stage for this year’s celebrations. This year’s stage also differed from the previous years’. The curtains What is the meaning of the theme of this years’ Seungwha for the round stage, which brought the Opera House to Festival? mind, were purple and draped in three layers symbolizing This means that, instead of observing this heart of filial three ages, Old Testament, New Testament and Completed affection internally, we should let it shine forth like the Testament Ages. beacon of the world. In short, we should all become When the curtains went up, a wall blocked the way to the beacons. We should all light the future. We should become stage. This wall signified the ‘wall of the fall’ that divides torches that march forward, lighting the way in the midst of Heaven from human beings on earth due to the fall of chaos and darkness. I think these words of True Mother humankind, the ‘wall of national boundaries’ that separates created are truly revolutionary. nations, and the ‘wall of conflict’ that severs The significance of True Parents’ lives goes beyond their communication between people. time on earth. Though True Parents’ mission of salvation of When the agonizing history of the Providence of restoration the world was begun when they first came on this earth. But through indemnity came to an end outside the wall in the that does not mean that their mission and vision have been musical, the age of the completion of the Providence of suspended just because True Father has passed away to restoration was opened. The wall that blocked the way was spiritual world. The Providence of salvation of the also opened, and the way to the new heaven and earth of the humanity and the world, begun by True Parents, will Cheon Il Guk was cleared. continue to progress eternally, and the Providence that was begun from the one spot will advance, develop and spread At this time, True Parents appeared on the stage, True out across the world and to the cosmos. Mother on earth coming up from under the stage on an elevator, and True Father in heaven coming down as a Though Jesus’ death on the cross was such a great sorrow, vision. The chandelier signifying the light of Heavenly so that Bible said it covered heaven and earth in darkness. Parent also came down. And these three formed a trinity Heavenly Parent did not end this incident as only sorrow; and thus symbolically expressed Cheon Il Guk Age and the instead, He bestowed the grace of resurrection, thus Providence still in progress completely united with transforming it into a miracle of joy and jubilation. Heavenly Parent, True Father in spiritual world and True Therefore, rather than feeling sorrow for the death of Jesus Mother on earth. It was truly a moving scene. in his failure, Christianity believed in him as the Messiah After all set, True Mother presented a bouquet to True who succeeded by being resurrected, and his teaching grew Father, which went beyond memorializing True Father’s to become a global religion. Seonghwa and celebrated his life with heartfelt joy and It was really clear-sighted direction of True Mother to glorious victory. Next, she came up to the podium in front designate this year’s Seonghwa celebrations as ‘Seonghwa of the stage and spoke to us. Festival’. Through this, the way has been opened for our 2

True Mother’s words in commemoration of the glorious event that evidences the manifestation of True Seonghwa Festival Parents. True Mother said, at last year’s ceremony commemorating the third anniversary of Seongwha, we entreated True Cheon Il Guk International Leaders Conference Father like this. The International Leaders Conference was held next. “We will fulfill our responsibility on earth. Therefore, we hope and pray that you, True Father will now be free to go True Mother emphasized that, in order to achieve Vision and come as you please, and to solace God, our Heavenly 2020, at least seven nations must be restored on the national Parent, who has been lonely until now, in the eternal level, and this victory should be dedicated to True Parents. Garden of Original Homeland.” Therefore, this year’s CIG Leaders Conference was part of “What is our responsibility on earth? It is to be proud of the process of selecting thirteen special strategic nations and to love True Parents, and to make efforts to propagate across the world, and the firstly chosen 13 nations the will of True Parents so that all 7.3 billion world presented and shared their strategies and goals. population can know of it. Letting them know about True During the session, I felt happy and passionate to hear on Parents is the hope of humanity and the dream of our the one hand, but on the other hand it was a difficult time Heavenly Parent.” for me, for I felt regretful pain when I thought of the “In working for Their Dispensation, our Heavenly Parent situation of European continent. chose one people to set the indemnity condition in the long On that day, True Mother called a meeting with special course of history, and was thus able to establish the national emissaries and continental directors at lunchtime, and she foundation for the people of Israel. On this foundation, He called upon me of all people to share my impressions. sent down Jesus Christ, His only begotten son, the son He Being suddenly called forward, I began to speak from the could claim as His own. However, the central figures failed heart without any preparation, and I felt so sorry that I to fulfill their responsibilities attending him, and so he had could not help but shed tears. to die on the cross, leaving behind the promise to ‘come again’.” “Europe is the land of the completion of the Providence “He said he will return and hold the ‘Feast of the Lamb’, of Restoration that cannot be given up” and it is the dream of God and the desire of humanity. This is because, in the fallen world, only by meeting True Some time back, True Mother said, “The European Parents can we become God’s children again. Humankind continent, where the 2000-year history of Christianity was cannot do so by themselves, since they cannot go to the unfolded, can be said to be the main stage of our Heavenly Kingdom of God unless they are reborn through True Parent’s Providence of Restoration. Therefore, no matter Parents’ Blessing.” how difficult things may be, we cannot give up Europe”. “True Parents, so long awaited, were finally sent to the She also added, “The six Providential nations in Europe chosen people of Korea after 6,000 years. Our Heavenly must fulfill their responsibilities”. Remembering these Parent sent down His only begotten son and only begotten words, I came to think of how great True Mother’s daughter and blessed them in the position of True Parents”. expectations of us are, in comparison to what is actually taking place on the scene. “Then what path do we need to choose? The blessed families need to fulfill their mission as new tribal messiahs Beloved blessed family members, in order to go beyond the levels of tribe and nation and Europe is not a land nor a continent that we can let Satan build a victorious foundation in the world.” take. No matter what indemnity we need to pay, we cannot With these words, True Mother emphasized that such is our achieve the completion of the Providence without restoring responsibility as we celebrate the ‘Seonghwa Festival’ this continent. Until now, many of our elder members have today. filled in the pit of indemnity course through their innumerable sacrifices. They have sacrificed much, shed Next, cultural performances were given in the form of a much sweat and blood. Even though their sacrifice is still a friendly competition of Continental level. Performances pain and a heartbreak, but, on the other hand, Heavenly prepared by each continent gave meaning to the Festival, of Parent has blessed many wonderful second generations. loving, glorifying, and being proud of True Parents. The performance from Europe was a ballet ensemble of four ballerinas with a modern touch, which was on a Testimony of one proud second generation completely different level from other continents’ Last Sunday, I attended the Youths’ Sunday Service. Simon performances. Marion, a boy who had just returned after finishing this However, it didn’t receive a high score. One member year’s STF program, was scheduled to give a testimony of approached me and said that the performance from Europe his experiences during the service. was highly artistic, and that maybe the judges had not I was moved and filled with hope as I listened to his words. awarded them a higher score because they did not The experiences of a nineteen-year old second generation in understand the artistry of ballet. the one-year STF program were truly amazing. It sounded I believe that this year’s Seonghwa Festival, as planned by like he had accumulated decisive assets that can determine True Mother, clearly revealed the ‘culture of heart’ of the the rest of his life through that one year’s experience, and Unification Church family. From now on, as our foundation that he had experienced the 6,000-year Providential history grows, we should establish this Festival as a tradition of Heavenly Parent. before the world, and expand it as a joyous, proud and 3

Moreover, when he was persecuted while fundraising, he third generations who were born without the original sin in experienced the heart of True Parents who were persecuted them. all their lives. This was an experience he couldn’t have However, are there no sins in this world? Can we live in a undergone anywhere else. clean house, avoiding all sins in the world? We cannot. We And when STF team went on a pilgrimage of holy grounds need to fight against the sins of the world and have to win. in Korea, he shed tears without realizing it, and I think this In the course of doing so, we ourselves become tainted. We spiritual rapport was a miracle worked by the Holy Spirit. become contaminated. Therefore, we need to clean our Therefore, he was proud of being a blessed child of the mind and body. This is done through the overall Unification Church. After experiencing how great his value forgiveness of True Parents. is as such, he had told his friend honestly about his own Would that mean that the holy wine and the holy salt are experiences without holding anything back, and his friend chemicals with which you can automatically cleanse had told him that he respected and even loved him. yourself of sin? No, they are not. They are a condition. The How proud should we be of this second generation boy? cleansing of sin can only be made possible through the Let us give an applause of encouragement to Simon. resolution of the mind and the heart. With that resolution of Yes, the blessing we have received is great and deep. Our our mind as our condition, Heavenly Parent forgives us. views of God, history, values, and humankind, based on the Faith and resolution are the conditions for forgiveness. Divine Principle, are truly great. We are not aware of how I love the term, ‘Settlement of Noon’ taught to us by True great their values are. When the world learns of our values Parents. I believe it to be the absolute truth. and our awareness of history, it will respect us. The fact is Everyone has shadows. Depending on how you are aligned that we ourselves do not know of these values, and some with the sun, that is Heaven, the length of your shadow time we hesitate and even more we hide. varies. The condition is how you are aligned. The condition That is why True Mother is telling us that it is now time to of receiving the Four Great Holy Items determines how we reveal the Truth. are to be aligned with our Heavenly Parent who is like the sun to us. Not the items themselves, but the heart and resolution with which you receive them, are the condition. The Four Great Holy Items bestowed by True Parents Beloved blessed family members, brothers and sisters, My dear brothers and sisters, Let us all live in complete vertical alignment with the sun, In commemoration of the 56th anniversary of True Parents’ so that our lives will be free of shadows. Holy Wedding, True Mother bestowed the Four Great Holy Items to us. By setting the condition of forty-day devotion, I have already told you that this year’s Seonghwa Festival we can separate ourselves from evil and unite our mind and was titled, “Filial Affection Toward Heavenly Parent and body to receive these holy items. As she bestowed the holy True Parents becomes the Beacon of the World”. What it items to us, True Mother forgave us on all accounts and means is that True Parents want us to become luminous allowed us to be reborn through her blessing and prayer. beings, who can rid ourselves of shadows and live in the settlement of noon, through our heart of filial affection We are so grateful this time that True Mother gave us these toward Heavenly Parent and True Parents. Four Holy Items and gave us the time to repent our life how much we are deviated from the standard of Divine True Mother said, “I wish to go to the bright Kingdom of Principle. These Holy Items make us re-start our lives as God together with all of you.” This is the heart of the the Foundation of Faith and become the conditions to make parent. We should respond to that heart of True Parents and the victory of the Foundation of Substance of Tribal work to become victorious individuals, families and Messiahs. communities, and to restore this country of France. We are people who have been rid of the original sin by Lastly, I hope and pray that the blessings of Heavenly True Parents’ Blessing. Our children are proud second and Parent will be always with you and your families. Thank you.