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
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.
At the same time that this morning is the first Sunday we greet in this new year of 1965, it is also the day on which we greet the 1,965th year since the incarnation of the Lord.
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.