Dedication Prayer For The Growth-Stage Cheon Bok Gung
The dedication of the growth-stage Cheon Bok Gung, on the eighth day of the first month by the heavenly calendar
Prayer for Faith by Reverend Sun Myung Moon
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The dedication of the growth-stage Cheon Bok Gung, on the eighth day of the first month by the heavenly calendar
But we know the fact that about Jesus Christ, who appeared as the center of life, as the crystallization of life.
Father! When we reflect on the path that the Unification movement has walked, we realize that this movement is a movement that no one at all has loved;
We earnestly hope and desire, Father, that you will let us become your children who are able to be aware of how holy our own selves appear who have been called to this holy fate.
Father! Having written Christian history over thousands of years, you have related to history on the solid foundation of your unchanging innermost heart.
Father: We thought that being your sons was only good, and we have lived forgetting the fact that to the extent that we are your sons, the cross is placed on our shoulders.
Father! Please look with mercy on your children who have gathered here today. All of your children here will have to go and find the nation of the original homeland.
We must know your lonely historical grief, and we must know the truth of how anxious and grievous your footsteps have been as you have sought this world.
And we know that the more that frustration filled him, the more his mind wanted to resent this earth.
Father! Please let us consider what the situation of Jesus must have been like when he came alone and died 2,000 years ago.
Oh Father! Today, this time is a time that has a historical distance from Jesus. But we know that even though there is a distance in history, there is no distance in the world of heart.
Father! We long for your voice which gave directions to us. Please let that touching voice that told us to head towards the greatest goodness once again move our minds at this time.
In the course of history so many saints and sages have come and gone, but they did not know what the circumstances of heaven were, and they did not know what the heart of heaven was like.
Father! We are reflecting on the day of the historical anguish of Jesus, when he, who lived for over 30 years
We have not been able to find in history a person who knew Jesus, who appeared representing the heart of heaven.
Today the course of our lives is miserable, and since the living environment is very complicated
He was born in a stable, and the more than 30 years he lived were so wretched and so lonely, and there were so few places he could depend on.
Father! We long for the holy majesty of Jesus of 2,000 years ago.
Father! What was the hope John the Baptist held in his heart as he preached in the wilderness for 30 years eating locusts and wild honey?
Oh Father! The closer that the time comes to meeting the Lord of resurrection, the more hesitant our minds become.
Beloved Father! Our minds have all sorts of forms and figures, but please let your character appear in our daily lives, and please allow us to become beings of righteousness
We know that your sorrowful tears remain on this earth where you lament wondering where Israel has gone which used to live within your realm
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.
Was there anyone on this earth who knew the mind of Jesus?
Father! We know that in order to recover Adam and Eve who were lost, after you worked for 4,000 years you sent Jesus to this earth as the person with the external form of Adam.
Father! None of the people on earth know this day, nor have they realized the anguish of heaven, and they know even less about your endlessly sorrowful heart.
Two thousand years ago you chose the people of Israel and you sought to have them experience and feel your heart
Please allow us to feel your aching heart in our minds, and please allow us to experience and feel keenly the heart of Jesus
When Jesus was carrying the cross on his back and going towards the mount of Golgotha, in the distance there were women who bewailed and lamented him, but Jesus turned to them and said, "Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for me, but weep for yourselves and for your children.
Please pardon humankind which could not attend Jesus as the Lord who came as the substantiation representing you.
Father! Concerned about our own present unworthiness, we must of course become people who can weep
Oh beloved Father: How many times did Jesus hope for repentance from the people of Israel, from the Pharisees and the people of the Jewish religion who did not believe in him?
Father! Please let us come to understand the heart of Jesus who had to leave his beloved disciples behind, and, going the path of the cross, had to go to the eternal world.
Father, please guide us to become people who deeply realize that you have been toiling for 6,000 years in order to establish the world-level value of life.