Sun Myung Moon, the True Parent of Heaven, Earth and Humankind, Seonghwa 40 day Service - Part 2

Dae Mo Nim
October 25, 2012

'Achieve many results and meet True Father at Chung Pyung'

On 9.11 by the heavenly calendar (solar: Oct. 25), 40th day since the 'Moon Sun Myung, the True Parent of Heaven, Earth and Humankind, Universal Seonghwa Ceremony' the 'Moon Sun Myung, the True Parent of Heaven, Earth and Humankind, Seonghwa 40 day Service' was held at Bon-hyang Won (Original Homeland) located behind the Cheon Jeong Gung Museum. It also marked the 53rd day since the Seonghwa of True Father and a very historical day for only having 120 days before the Foundation Day.

As the senior members, continental directors, pastors from Korea and Japan of around 600 people were waiting, at 9:55 am, True Mother arrived at the scene with Hyung Jin Nim, International President of Unification Church and with some members of the True Grandchildren.

All the participants first offered a bow to True Parents and then Mr. and Mrs. Hyung Jin Nim lit the two holy candles.

Rev. Jun-ho Seok, President of Unification Church of Korea, welcomed True Father 'The Lord of truth, holiness and virtue in Cheon Il Guk; the King of ten thousand victories for all people' and then started with his opening declaration of saying, 'We will start this True Father Seonghwa 40 day Service as we welcome True Mother who have united with True Father by one heart, one body, one mind, one harmony and one core.' Then there was the singing of the Cheon Il Guk anthem which was then followed by the reciting of the Family Pledge. After that, Rev. Yeong-seop Song, General President of Unification Movement in Japan, offered a sincere prayer of report.

During the time of offering flowers and drink, True Mother first offered a basket of roses and other flowers to True Father. Representing everyone, Hyung Jin Nim and his wife offered the flower and drink. After the members of the True Children, including Kook Jin Nim, board of director for Tongil Foundation, Shin Joon Nim and other members of the True Grandchildren offered the flowers and drinks.

Representing the wives of the 5 great saints, President Jeong-ok Lee, President Gyeong-jun Lee, and President Hyung-shil Gang offered the flowers and drinks which was then followed by the senior members, 36 blessed couples, representatives of religions, continental directors, boonbongwangs and national messiahs, region leaders, representatives of Japan and the spirits world offered their flowers and drinks. At the end, representing the spirit world and physical world, the blessed families of 1st and 2nd generations offered a standing bow to True Parents.

Then the partaking of the holy food took place and all the participants were silent for a moment while True Father partook the holy food.

Then there was a video presentation. With the video a beautiful song by Sun-un Lee, a 3rd generation was performed. Through the video the participants remembered the time they had with True Father on earth and the atmosphere became warm and beautiful.

President Hyo-yul Kim read an excerpt from the Cheon Seong Gyeong titled 'Where are we going from here?' for the Hoon Dok Hae time. Everyone attending kept quiet and thought it was Father that was speaking the words directly.

Then True Mother spoke words after the Hoon Dok Hae. True Mother would speak beautifully but at times would speak strongly and showed the path for the Unification Family from now on. (After logging in to the website please go to 'Words' section)

Each continental directors came in front of True Mother and received the Holy Wine from Hyung Jin Nim.

At the end, Rev. Jeong-ro Yut, President of UPF, came to the podium and did 3 cheers of eok-mansei and a bow was offered by all the participants to True Parents of Heaven, Earth and Humankind. As everyone was shouting, 'Thank you very much True Parents! We love you True Parents!', True Mother left the scene at 11:02 am and ended the worship.