Father’s Prayer at The Midnight of the God’s Day, On January 1, 7 997 In Sao Paulo, Brazil
DEAR Heavenly Father, Now that 1996 is over and 1997 has arrived, we can begin a new day in heaven and on earth. In order to establish on this earth the Heavenly Parents and to clear away all the fallen ages of history, You have walked with True Parents traversing the path of indemnity through the individual, family, tribal, national, country, world and cosmic levels. I cannot but thank You for this. Also, I am grateful that True Parents, born for the sake of this providence, have received the heavenly task and have been guided to live a suffering life in order to clear the path of indemnity on this earth. Through many deep experiences, God and True Parents have reestablished the ideal of perfected Adam’s family in this world by setting up the victorious foundations on the individual, family, tribal, national, country and worldwide levels, thereby establishing in heaven and on earth the lost worldwide domains of elder sonship, parentship, and kingship. On these foundations, the national, worldwide, and cosmic kingships of True Parents have been restored on this earth. The path has been opened by which there is no longer any need for indemnity in this world.
By extending to the world the lost domain of Adam and Eve, and by bringing to pass the liberated world of elder son-ship, parentship, and kingship, God and True Parents have ushered in this age. The perfect foundation is prepared on which the lost domain of Adam and Eve can be restored and the grace of Blessing can be given out to all people.
Going beyond the 1996 motto of being proud of (proudly presenting) and loving True Parents, now we are going through the age of attendance., in which we should serve God and True Parents even more than being proud of and loving them. You have made it possible that as we enter into the age of attendance, representing the world, we can expand our God-centered family foundation to the country, world and cosmos. We can establish the lost kingship to form a country through which the age comes when You can rule the entire world. We Me grateful for this.
LIBERATION OF ALL THINGS
You have allowed the coming of the age in which liberation is given to all things which have been in lamentation, to all the ancestors in the spiritual world, and to all people on the earth. This is the age in which the principle of the heavenly kingdom is established and all people can praise and love as one family originating from the lineage and love of one parent. This is the heavenly kingdom in which true man and true woman can receive the grace of Blessing through which they can become one centering on absolute love. We are grateful for this.
The 1996 motto, “Let Us Be Proud of True Parents (proudly presenting) and Love True Parents” means that the age has come in which Parents should proudly present and love God. The Unification family should proudly present and love True Parents. All the tribal messiahs and family messiahs centering on the national messiahs should proudly present and love the parents of the nation.
As a tribe which has inherited the proud kingship of the proud Parents, we should establish the authority of the children. After inheriting the family, tribal, national, worldwide and cosmic victories, and with the dignity of a royal family, the children shall go directly to the liberated world where there is no place for satanic accusations.
We understand that we should become the families that can proudly show before heaven, earth and Parents our fulfillment of the ways of the filial child, the patriot, the saint and the holy son and daughter who can attend You in the family, country, world and cosmos. Please guide us so that through this family we can realize the purpose of creation and the hope of history, which is the building of the Kingdom of Heaven. Through this, we can enter into the age in which all people can communicate with one another, with one heart, as one tribe of God.
We are grateful that You have allowed us to start the family which, freed from shame, can inherit the completed way of filial child, patriot, saint, and holy son and daughter.
THE COUNTRY OF ONE KINGSHIP
Now, in this year, when we are working together to save all people through the Blessing of 3.6 million couples, please allow us to become a model family who can sincerely thank Heavenly Parents and True Parents on earth. Parents have enabled blessed families to see the proud age in which they can become world families who can directly communicate with the original Kingdom of Heaven. There, they can transcend race, country and world, possessing the country of one kingship. We sincerely pray for this.
Blessing is given by Heavenly Parents on the foundation on which Christianity, all other religions and all people are united. The benefit of the Blessing will extend beyond families, countries, world, religions, East and West, and even heaven and earth. Through the Blessing, all people will be liberated and the heavenly gates will be opened.
In 1997, we have to fulfill the responsibility of extending the lineage of liberation to all people. We must embrace the 3.6 million couples who can form families free from shame, as victors who can inherit the grace of Blessing, as individual families of heaven, as public figures who have inherited heavenly blessing, and as heavenly people who have inherited the heavenly environment. In this year, we sincerely request that we may arrive by bringing victory in this goal and even overachieving the goal, at the one realm of Royal Family as victors who proudly present God, Parents, country and family.
THE ANNULMENT OF INDEMNITY
Heavenly Father, You who has been pursuing the history of the realm of blood, please remove your anger. We have come upon the direct age in which the way is opened through which families can connect With the infinite world of Your heavenly kingdom. They can accomplish this by changing their blood lineage with the settlement of the Family Federation for World Peace and the annulment of indemnity, and by keeping the divine law in heaven and on earth. In this age, we sincerely pray that You allow us to become the sons and daughters and princes and princesses who become free from shame as victors, by working with a sense of responsibility and by carrying out the holy sense of mission to build the world in which to live with God, going beyond one country, world and cosmos.
Please bless the Unification members of the world so that the first and second generations can become one, that they can receive the lineage of True Children and join the heavenly tribe. Allow them to accomplish the holy responsibility of family, to reveal the great way of heaven and the world of present and future, as those who can match up to the dignity of the seven Family Pledges established in the family of heart and in the cosmos.
Please allow them to be liberated sons and daughters and families of God who, after realizing this, can bring victory no matter what, even one against one hundred. Please allow each one of them to have a family which can love and rule all nations and be loved by them, by inheriting the ways of the filial child, patriot, saint and holy son and daughter, and by inheriting God’s blessing. I sincerely pray for this.
THE BELOVED TRIBE OF HEAVEN
We sincerely hope and wish that You may allow us to be-come masters of the one country and the beloved tribe of heaven, who can return glory to heaven with a liberated self, having established a free realm in which to move between the hills of the individual and of the world. Let this year of 1997 be the year of hope, liberation, blessing and words in which each of us can leave a record that can be highly praised by the world.
Please make 1997 a year in which, as we march forward for the Blessing of 3.6 million couples, the great force that can penetrate into all things can proudly show the completion of heaven and earth. And we sincerely request and desire that from the year 1998 until the year 2000, we can become the heavenly family, tribe, country, nation and world which can sing songs of pride, love and gratitude to heaven.
As True Parents, who have received the shame-free tradition of parents, pass on a new way of husband and wife to their descendants, please do not let them leave shameful conditions in history. Please allow us to be children who can form families to offer the shining seeds of perfected children after sweeping victoriously through our tribes, neighborhoods, world, and cosmos with the movement of the tribe that destroys injustice.
I request again that You, who are the source of all blessings, fully grant Your grace to those who desire the completion of the Blessing. I prayed in this early morning of the new year, before the whole cosmos, in the name of True Parents. Amen. Amen. Amen.