Father of Love! Thank you for having come to us. Today you have come to us in joy, but we are afraid that as you leave tomorrow you won't be able to promise a day to recite poems of joy when you leave. We have come to know that your complicated course, as you have been dealing with humankind, has been one where you met people in joy but where the days of departure were departures in sorrow.
Please allow us to have more longing for you tomorrow than today, and please allow us to be able to long for you even more as we enter our old age than in our youth. In that way please allow us to become sons and daughters who are able to go forward step by step to the profound and sublime world of the heart.
Furthermore, please allow us to comfort your heart of enmity, to resolve the grief of the enmity of Jesus, and to resolve the grief of the enmity of the historical ancestors, and we earnestly hope and desire, Father, that because of us, the final mission of today, the heavenly resolution of grief, will be accomplished and offered to you.
Today we have come to know that Jesus came with the heart of a pioneer.
Why was his glory turned into pioneering? It was because John the Baptist betrayed him; it was because the religious bodies betrayed him; it was because the people betrayed him; and it was because all the people of the world betrayed him.
As long as we know that this is the historical reality left behind in the Christian history of today, please allow internally determined hearts to soar up on the foundation of our minds, like the determined heart of Jesus who started from the preparation period, went through the period of accomplishment, and went up towards the standard of perfection.
Jesus faced enemies on the level of the people and enemies on the level of the nation, but today we have the responsibility to face enemies beyond the people, on the level of the world, and enemies on the level of the cosmos, that is to say since we have a responsibility such that it will not do unless we cope with the mission of the final pioneer, please give us ability, Father. Earnestly hope that you will allow us to become sons and daughters of victorious glory by enthusiastically walking to the end of the path of the world-level Golgotha and by carrying this responsibility by ourselves.
We have humbly prayed all these things in the name of the Lord. Amen.
Dr. Sun Myung Moon
