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True Parents’ Message and News September 2015 English Version No. 16 天一國 3年 天曆 8 ARTICLE ONE Welcoming True Father’s Third Universal Seonghwa By Ryu Kyeong Seok rue Father came to earth as the savior of mankind, the Messiah and True Parent and completed all his missions in the providence of restoration. Three years have now passed since he went to heaven. Looking back, True Mother had meaningfully named the past three years as a period of dedicated mourning. She looked after the Bonhyangwon, True Father’s grave, with a heart of loyalty, filial piety and passion as she struggled on earth to liberate True Father forever. Moreover, this dedication period was also one to establish Tthe 7.5 billion people, starting from members and blessed families, in front of Heaven’s will. On the foundation of this dedication, a great ceremony for True Father’s Third Universal Seongwha Anniversary was held on August 30 (7.17 on heavenly calendar) with the catchphrase “Let’s Connect the World with Peace.” Thirty thousand members from around the world attended this me- morial. This event became an opportunity for members from around the globe to resolve firmly to carry on True Parents’ achievements and work for world peace. It was a precious time in which True Parents’ noble status could be raised high as the will of the Family Federation and twenty other providential institutes and organizations was streamed on the internet live to 194 countries, The First Sunhak Peace Prize Award Ceremony occurred among many other events. It was a meaningful moment as globally prominent figures, including the Sunhak laureates, received proof of our deep respect for True Parents. They were spoken of eloquently in relation to how they have overcame numerous obstacles and boundaries and worked continuously with unchanging determination, tenacity and love throughout the entirety of thier lives for the sake of beginning a providential revolution across all areas of study–peace, the environment and food resources for humanity. Moreover, on May 30, the 2015 Peace Road launched in Las Vegas, the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa, and Santiago, Chile, to begin on a ninety-three-day course to commemorate the ninety-three-years of True Father’s life. Thirty thousand people participated from 121 nations to share and realize True Parents’ dream, the International Highway Project, and their ideal of one human family under Heavenly Parent. I offer my sincerest gratitude to all the members’ devotion and dedication carried out with beads of sweat in order to bring light to the world about True Parents’ great providential achievements, centered on True Fa- ther’s third universal seonghwa anniversary. More than anything else that has occurred since True Father’s seonghwa, we must never forget True Mother’s deep love as she stood on the front line, cutting through the ink-black darkness and leading us as a bright light, following the path of the providence with tearful devotion focused solely on God and on comforting him. Now is the time for Unificationists to attend True Father in heaven and True Mother on earth, to take the lead in the providential course for the settlement of Cheon Il Guk and to realize Heavenly Parent’s great providential achievements in the world. We must stand at the forefront, following the model course set by True Parents—who have lived sacred lives for the sake of humanity’s salvation, God’s liberation, and world peace—and unite with a heart of loyalty, filial piety and sincerity toward True Parents, True Father in heaven, True Mother on earth. When we do so, Heavenly Parent will all reside together in our lives forever. Rev. Ryu is the president of FFWPU-Korea. True Parents’ Message and News www.ipeacetv.com 天一國3年(天曆)8月 September 2015 CONTENTS 04 06 10 ARTICLE ONE TRUE PARENTS’ MESSAGES CHEON IL GUK LEADERS SPECIAL 02 Welcoming True Father’s 04 Let Us Build a World of ASSEMBLY 2015 ird Universal Seonghwa Peace through Living for 36 Preparing to Realize the Sake of Others True Parents’ Vision TRUE CHILDREN’S MESSAGES 10 acting on True Father’s Legacy Seonghwa Memorial INTRODUCING CHAMBUMO GYEONG e FFWPU International 06 38 Completing the President’s Message Speech ird Great Scripture THE THIRD UNIVERSAL SEONGHWA 08 True Mother’s Message TESTIMONY MEMORIAL ADDRESSES to Young People GUIDING HIS DISCIPLES 18 e Model of Living for Others 41 True Father Guided Me to By Dr. Lee Soo Sung Realize My Portion of 19 His Legacy Will Live On Responsibility FOUNDATION DAY PICTORIAL By Anote Tong True Parents Love Japan 12 MaJOR EVEnTS 43 e ird Universal Seonghwa 44 My Early Impression of THE THIRD UNIVERSAL SEONGHWA Memorial of Sun Myung Moon, True Father EVENT SKETCH the True Parent of Heaven, 45 Revelations from the 20 Memorial Events e ird anniversary of Earth and Humankind Horizontal God True Father’s Universal Seonghwa THE FIRST SUNHAK PEACE PRIZE 26 Sunhak Peace Prize award Ceremony THE FIRST SUNHAK PEACE PRIZE LAUREATES’ ADDRESSES 28 Our One and Only Home 32 Food Security and Peace 12 TRUE PARENTS’ MESSAGES 1 Let Us Build a World of Peace through Living for the Sake of Others True Father gave this speech on September 16, 2004, at an invitational banquet for finance and business leaders from the United States, which took place at the Little Angels Performing Arts Center in Seoul, Korea. istinguished financial and business leaders from the United States! Respected po- Dlitical and financial leaders from the Republic of Korea, ladies and gentlemen, I welcome you with all my heart to this banquet. As a per- son who has lived his whole life fol- lowing a standard of absolute values centered on God, I have prepared this banquet to invite your interest in some recent projects. The human desire to achieve the ideal of peace has been consistent throughout history. Yet eternal peace has never been manifested. This is the problem. Human beings have lived in ignorance, chaos, division and strife. To this day, we have been unable to establish an absolute value system that can be shared by all people. An absolute value system cannot arise from human beings who harbor inter- nal conflicts and are always changing. The root of this system can only be found in God, the Absolute Being and the Creator. God, who is the essence of love, created human beings to be the recipient of his absolute love. One Though he is the owner and king of living for the sake of others has been cannot claim for oneself the status of power, authority, money and material, valid throughout all ages and in all owner or master of love, and that is he does not view these as conditions nations. An egocentric and self-cen- true even for God. Only one’s partner to come before him. God says that tered way of life will bring about evil, grants that status. This is a fundamen- anyone can come to his side as long as while a life of living for the greater tal principle. One needs to live for they live for the sake of others. Only good will bring prosperity. All things one’s partner and neighbor. This ab- those who live for others can become can be brought into harmony by liv- solute value system of love stands the counterpart of the center, and ing for greater goodness. This opens above any political ideal or principle stand in the position of a central fig- all doors to individuals, families, of economics. It is the heavenly law ure. tribes, races, nations, the world and that transcends all ages. God is not an egocentric dictator. heaven. What kind of being is God who Rather, God invests himself for hu- The self-evident truth of the benefit created this universe and the heav- mankind’s sake. Thus, for tens of of living for the sake of others must be enly laws? God has manifested him- thousands of years our original minds put into practice on the path of a true self in the universe as the have sought to follow God. life. This principle is valid no matter quintessence of living for the sake of All beings must exist for the sake of where you may be. It is unchanging others. Though he is the king of other beings in order to maintain their and eternal. If God were to appear be- knowledge, he does not ask us to place in this universe, as governed by fore such a sage as Buddha, Confu- come to him through knowledge. the laws of heaven. The principle of cius, Jesus or Muhammad, and ask 4 TRUE PEACE him what he thought about this prin- The way for someone to come to through my sacrificial investment in ciple, he would surely reply that this your side is not through struggling an effort to manifest the founding principle is true. Do you feel the same with that person, it is by thinking of ideals of loving heaven, loving hu- way? Please keep in mind that this is them as if you were his or her parent, mankind and loving one’s nation. The the law of the universe, which is teacher or supervisor. That is the way. global media institutions within needed for men and women to live in I ask you to live sincerely for the sake News World Communications, in- their truest form. of others for three years. Then you cluding the Washington Times and What standards set by people in will come to understand what I am the Segye Times, were created for the history do people of today aspire to saying.