We know that Jesus Christ, who was sent by you, our Father who had worked hard for the 4,000 years after Adam, came as your incarnation, as the fruit of tears, sweat, and blood, and he came with the mission of having to shed tears in your stead, to shed sweat in your stead, to shed blood in your stead, and with the mission of having to resolve your enmity.
When we think that Jesus Christ walked a path of tears representing heaven, walked a path of toil without a moment's rest: representing all the people, and walked the perspiring course of his public life, Father, please allow this to become a time when we sincerely reflect on whether we have become people who can face that kind of Christ.
When Jesus was carrying the cross on his back and going towards the Mount of Golgotha, in the distance some women bewailed and lamented him, but Jesus turned to them and said, "Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for me, but weep for yourselves and your children.
Today, please allow us to be able to experience and feel keenly at this time the earnest heart of Christ as he said. Since we know that a person who does not know the situation of the cross cannot receive the salvation of the cross, and that a person who does not know how to experience and feel keenly Jesus' heart when he was going to the cross, cannot stand on the side of truth, Father, please look with pity on your sons and daughters who have gathered here at this time.
Even if we don't possess anything, and we don't have anything to offer to you, Father, we earnestly hope and desire, Father, that you will allow us to be able to become guardians of goodness who, having engraved in our minds the loneliness of Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane, meet and fight with the enemies who are invading and coming in.
We know that the time has come that today we must go over the peak of the world-level Golgotha, and we must shout out to this world, which is like a wasteland, the final appeal that Jesus shouted out in the place called Gethsemane.
Therefore, we earnestly hope and desire, Father, that you will guide us not to become sons and daughters who live for ourselves and keep Christ at a distance.
Father! Please allow us to become people who, while representing the heart of Jesus Christ, first take responsibility ourselves for the difficulties, when there are difficulties, and who first take responsibility ourselves for the sorrows, when there are sorrows, and who, even if we were to collapse having gone through suffering ourselves, if it is the Will that heaven desires, can fight and go forward willingly submitting to that.
We have prayed in the name of the Lord. Amen.
Dr. Sun Myung Moon
