53rd True Parents' Day

Dae Mo Nim
March 22, 2012

'Must complete Ancestor Liberation Ceremony until 210th Generation'

On Cheon-gi 3rd year, March 1 by the Heavenly Calendar (March 22, 2012), from 8:00 am, the ceremony began by True Parents lighting the holy candle after being welcomed by 2,000 attending distinguished guests and members from around the world. All blessed families offered a bow to True Parents and then sang the Cheon Il Guk national anthem after the opening address by the emcee.

Then bows were offered by representatives in the following order; members of the True Children, representatives of 5 Great Saints, representatives of blessed children, representatives of world blessed families, 3 representative nations of God's providence, representatives of 6 continental presidents, representatives of main religions, representatives of boon-bong-wangs of 194 nations and national messiahs, representatives of True Parents' relatives, representatives of the realm of Abel, representatives of the realm of Cain, and the representatives of the spirit world.

After the reciting of the family pledge, President Moon Hyung Jin Nim and his wife offered a representative prayer. True Parents' Day is to commemorate the day of the return of parents who we lost at the fall of human ancestors Adam and Eve. In his prayer, Hyung Jin Nim said, 'God created human beings and in order to establish True Parents we must have ownership over All Things. On such Parents' Day let us become members who could fulfill the proclamation of the 'Cosmic Assembly for the Settlement of the True Parents of Heaven, Earth and Humankind and for the Proclamation of the Word by God's Substantial Self' and open the gates to the Era of the Victory, Liberation and Perfection of the True Parents of Heaven, Earth and Humankind. Going a step further, let us fulfill peace and unification to the world so that we can restore God's homeland and the Reign of Prosperity and Tranquility and protect the pacific realm.'

After the cutting of the commemorating cake, True Parents partook the holy food and then gave it to the members of the True Children. Then there was a song performance by the Cheon-shin choir team from Cheon-buk-gung. During the time of words, instead of reading True Father started to explain the 'Settlement of the True Parents of Heaven, Earth and Humankind' and for 70 minutes explained the importance of the Korean language that symbolizes language and culture. At the end, True Father sang children's songs with the True Grandchildren and told Mr. Won-ju Cheon to sing the 'thousand year rock'. Then True Father sang 3 different songs together with all the attending members and completed his words.

Then, representing Japanese Church, Man-jin Kim, Leader of 7th Region and Maruko Motoe from Toyama Region offered flower bouquets to True Parents and as a special commemorative gift for this special day 360,000 folded paper crane were offered by Moon Shin Guk Nim and Shin Na Nim, as well as Ji-ye Ho and Bom-sok Kim representative students.

To all members who stood up to offer the 3 cheers of eog-manse, True Parents said, 'You must complete Ancestor Liberation Ceremony until 210th Generation!' and all attending members replied, 'Yes, we will!'. Then the 3 cheers of eog-manse was offered by Rev. Yeong-seop Song of General Director of UPF-Japan.