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UNIFICATION NEWS $2 Volume 28 No. 4 The Newspaper in the Era of Cheon Il Guk in America April 2009 True Parents’ Day Celebrated in Las Vegas Heung Jin Nim on “Reflexivity” • p. 2 Hyo Jin Nim photo tribute • p. 14-15 See pages 5 – 7 Kook Jin Nim in Germany • p. 11 Hyo Jin Nim Memorial Service GPF in Europe • p. 12-13 INSIDE Church Calender 2 Crime Fighting in Montana 18 USA church pioneers at 40 19 A cosmic explosion 20 New Voices: Naokimi interview 22 See pages 8 – 10 2 Unification News April 2009 DISCOURSE ON UNIFICATIONISM by Rev. Hyung Jin Nim you think you should get mad at your student just because you have a ter- This is from the Sunday Service on rible day? Does it make you hypo- The Power March 14, 2009, at the HQ Church, critical?” And I could not answer his Seoul, Korea. Transcribed by Rev. Beat- question. rice Clyburn & Cathy Quebral. Edited Recently I saw True Father and True Rev. Hyung Jin Nim Prayer: inherit that and truly be able to spread by Rev. Bruno Klotz. Mother and I knew that they had many that and become blessings to this world. eavenly Father, thank You so things on their minds. Usually, they Thank You so much Father for this Yeon Ah Nim' Message: much for this day. Father, we are very happy when Shin Joon is time. We pray that we may once again give You praise and honor this return joy to You and give You a tremen- ot long ago after I joined the True around but even that didn’t work so H day for You have walked a tearful road. dous smile today. We thank You so Family, I asked Hyung Jin Nim well. They were not in good mood actu- Father, You have waited for thousands much. a question. I asked him, “I real- ally, but during that period when Father N of years until the day when You can We offer all these as one family, as and Mother met with members, True ly don’t understand how some people see Your families on this earth. Father talked to members and smiled Central Blessed Families together. Aju! can be double faced. I cannot really Father, we pray that You may be with members and True Mother sang understand how they can hide their inspired today, that You may find new Main Sermon: fun songs with members. And I real- own emotions so well and show a pain- hope today, that You may find a new ized this is what they have done always rothers and sisters, today free face even though they are in ter- spirit of rejuvenation today. Father, be for us. They have always overcome their I’d like to talk to you about rible emotional turbulence.” I thought with us as we spend time being in Your personal difficulties and personal sit- the power of reflexivity. In that is only possible if they have two presence. We pray that You may bless uation for the public good. order to live the blessed life, faces. And I said, “I don’t want to be each and everyone of the Blessed Cen- Brothers and sisters, in life there is learning the power of self- like that.” tral Families here. We pray that You Instead of answering my question, a time we may feel that nobody really Breflexivity is one of the keys, one of our may be with the brothers and sisters understands our pain and we are the key keys. he asked me a question. He said, “Let’s joining us across the world in the serv- only one who suffers tremendously but Self-reflexivity is very simply the say you just found out that you passed ice via internet. Father, please bless when we think about our Heavenly ability to look at yourself honestly. With a very difficult event and you are very their families, bless their children and Father and True Parents life course reflexivity you are able to see your happy. Right after that you have to be bless their descendants. and victory, we know that our moun- strengths and weaknesses. You can in a funeral house and you pay respect Father, we pray that truly we may tain is much smaller than the victory check whether or not you’re staying to a person who just passed away. In be those types of people that can inher- of True Parents and Heavenly Father. true to the goals that God has given silence. Does it make you hypocriti- it Your True Love, a True Love that can Brothers and sisters, let us have our you, and thus you can find a path of cal? naturally subjugate even the most dark- best year this year. We love you so much constant improvement. Learning how He asked me another question. He est force. Father, we pray that we may said, “Let’s say you are a teacher. Do and we believe in you. Aju! to “turn the mirror unto ourselves” and APRIL 2009 4 Hyun Jin Nim's Birthday (4/10/69) 5 Day of Ssang-hap Ship-seung (2004) Ahn Shi Il • 1st, 9th, 17th, 25th 6 Professors World Peace Academy Established (1973) 3 New Hope Farm Declaration (1995) 7 Shin Su Nim's Birthday (4/13/06) 4 Dedication Ceremony for the Chung Shim Tap Memorial 10 Unification Theological Seminary (1977) Tower & Jeong Shim Won Prayer Hall (2000) 14 Cheonju Haebang Shik: Liberation of the Universe (1999) 6 Shin Hwa Nim's Birthday (3/11/88) National (American) Won Jeon Shrine Dedicated (2002) 7 42 Couples' Blessing (1989) 15 36 Couples' Blessing (1961) 138 Previously Married Couples' Blessing (1989) Citizen's Federation Unification of the Fatherland (1987) 57 Single Blessing (1989) 16 Ye Jin Nim & Jin Whi Nim's Blessing (1981) Declaration for the Blessed Family (1995) Day of the Love of God (1984) 10 1265 Previously Married Couples' Blessing (1992) 17 Shin Yeon Nim's Birthday (4/23/90) Women's Federation for World Peace Established (1992) Unification News Established (1982) Family Federation for World Peace and Unification Washington Times Established (1982) Established (1996) 21 118 Couples' Blessing (1978) 11 True Parents' Blessing (3/16/60) 22 American Clergy Leadership Conference Established (2000) 12 36 Couples of the Second Generation Blessing (1986) 24 Day of All True Things (5/1/63) 13 Proclamation of Liberation and Release (2004) 30 Declaration of True Parents' East and West Victory (1999) 16 Kwon Jin Nim & Hwa Yun Nim's Blessing (1995) Sun Jin Nim & In Sup Nim's Blessing (1995) JUNE 2009 17 Shin Joon Nim's Birthday (3/22/2004) Ahn Shi Il • 4th, 12th, 20th, 28th Dae Hyung Nim's Ascension Day of the Resurrection of Shimjung (1960) 3 Inauguration of the Federation for Cosmic Peace and Day of the Resurrection of Substance (1961) Unification South American Headquarters (2001) 22 Noticias del Mundo Established (1980) 4 72 Couples' Blessing (1962) 23 Shin Nae Nim's Birthday (3/28/05) 8 Shin Goon Nim's Birthday (5/16/02) 27 Shin Bok Nim's Birthday (4/3/82) 9 Young Jin Nim's Birthday (5/17/78) 60 Couples' Blessing (2001) 10 Il-Heung Shipbuilding Established (1986) Interreligious (144,000) Clergy Blessing (2002) 13 Hee Jin Nim & Hye Shin Nim's Blessing (1998) 28 Shin Il Nim's Birthday (4/4/81) 39 Couples' Blessing (1981) Shin Ye Nim's Ascension (2001) 1st Stage of the 360 Million Couples' Blessing (1998) 14 Jeung Jin Nim's Birthday (1982) MAY 2009 Declaration of True Parents' Cosmic Victory (1999) Ahn Shi Il • 3rd, 11th, 19th, 27th 17 Declaration: Return of the Sea to Heavenly Dominion (2000) CALENDAR 20 Shin Kwang Nim's Birthday (5/28/01) 1 HSA-UWC Established (1954) 21 Rally for the Unity and Completed Settlement of the Parents 43 Couples' Blessing (1969) of Heaven and Earth (2002) Ceremony for the Total Dissolution of Resentment (1975) 23 Il-Sung Construction (1978) Day of Victory Over Resentment (1974) Day of One Heart (1989) 24 Declaration of the Return of the Land to God (2000) ue to the manner in which the lunar calendar corresponds with the solar calendar, Yun Ah Nim's, Un 29 Ceremony of the Return of the Cosmos to Heaven (2000) DJin Nim's, Shin Choon Nim's, and Hyo Jin Nim's birthdays are not celebrated in 2009. Contact me if you come across any errors. (c) 1999-2004 Kathryn Coman [[email protected]] April 2009 Unification News 3 DISCOURSE ON UNIFICATIONISM there’s a big monster that “Rationally how can we get off this lives on this huge peak, and island? That’s our purpose. We’re not of Reflexivity Jack’s group who are the going to stay here and survive. We want hunters, they promise to to get off!” But Jack’s group is becom- seeing ourselves is one of the keys to ilized. They are trying to find a way to hunt and kill this beast. They ing more and more animalistic, once living the blessed life. signal for help. They’re trying to find a mistake a body of a dead pilot as the again. Let’s take a look at some of the Scrip- method, “How can we get off this island. sleeping monster and they begin to To put a long story short, eventual- tures today. We’ll look at Christianity We don’t want to stay here, we want to hunt animals and they start offering ly this ends in a disastrous result.