Video – Join Patti Hidalgo Menders & Richard Urban at the Family & Community Strengthening Forum
STRENGTHENING FAMILIES AND COMMUNITIES FORUM: MARCH 18TH, 2023
Speakers:
Patti Hidalgo Menders, Loudon County mom of six sons and advocate fighting to protect children from CRT and other progressive ideologies. Community Liaison Officer in Northern Virginia for the Office of the Virginia Attorney General, Jason Miyares.
Richard Urban: Co-founder VisionRoot and Urban Life Training, abstinence-centered curriculum teacher.
Find out more. Register by March 13th.
EXPOSITION OF THE DIVINE PRINCIPLE WORKSHOP: MARCH 19TH 2023
Location: Peace Kingdom Center, Harpers Ferry, West Virginia and online.
Find out more. Register by March 13th.
Cheon Seong Gyeong 2187
In order to become heavenly royalty, you must first become filial children, patriots, saints and divine sons and daughters. The training ground for this is the family. The ideal Kingdom of Heaven comes about when the perfected family expands. The family is always the center. The problem boils down to two people: a man and a woman. When an ideal man and an ideal woman come together as husband and wife, and form a family, then everything is completed. The ideal family expands to become a nation and world.
Through serving in the family and respecting your parents, you become children of filial piety. In the same way, when you attend and live for the king of your nation, you become patriots, and if you live for all humankind, you become saints. So you should realize how much the dimension of a holy child differs from yours. In order for you to change, you must make revolutionary changes in yourselves and ascend through numerous levels. (293-211, 1998.5.26) Emphasis mine.
Cheon Seon Gyeong 1535
At the time of creation, God stood in the position of having exercised absolute faith, love, and obedience, but because human beings failed to form families that could stand as object partners to Him, they consequently fell into hell. We are now living in the time when everything that was lost in Adam’s family can be restored worldwide through absolute faith, love and obedience on the unified foundation of True Parents’ realm of victory. Unification Church members must therefore inherit and practice absolute faith, love and obedience centering on the True Parents. True Parents inherited these absolute traditions from God, and so you should inherit these traditions in turn. Do you understand? Then God’s blessing will be with you. (1996.11.3) Emphasis mine.
Original Substance of the Divine Principle
Family Pledge
The Family is…
- God’s ideal of creation
- The basic unit of the Kingdom of Heaven
- The training ground for shimjung and true love that allows us to be registered in the Kingdom of True Love
- The core body where tri-generational love is unified
- The basic unit of order for society and nation
- Absolute Sex (Realm of True Love, True Life and True Lineage) à Sexual Purity, Purity of Lineage, Purity of Love
Accordingly, the True Family is the Eternal Homeland of Humankind.
The Family Pledge is…
- The backbone, the core and the order of the family
- The absolute standard for realizing Cheon Il Guk and the core of its constitution
- The gospel of gospels for connecting our lives with God
- The key for opening the gate of the Kingdom of Heaven
- The prayer of prayers
- The blessing of blessings, given by Heaven to humankind
- The Family Pledge is the record of the victories won during the life of the True Parent.
The Family Pledge is comprised of eight verses.
Family Pledge Verse 1
i. 천일국 주인 우리 가정은 참사랑을 중심하고
ii. 본향땅을 찾아
iii. 본연의 창조이상인
.iv. 지상천국과 천상천국을 창건할 것을 맹세하나이다.
Our family, the owner of Cheon Il Guk, pledges
ii. to seek our original homeland and
iii. build the Kingdom of God on earth and in heaven,
iv. the original ideal of creation, by centering on true love.
주인 Owner
• Takes interest (I am the owner)
• Takes responsibility
• Protects
• Nurtures
Family Pledge Verse 2
천일국 주인 우리 가정은 참사랑을 중심하고
. ii. 하나님과 참부모님을 모시어
.iii. 천주의 대표적 가정이 되며 중심적 가정이 되어
iv. 가정에서는 효자, 국가에서는 충신
.v. 세계에서는 성인, 천주에서는 성자의 가정의 도리를
완성할 것을 맹세하나이다.
Family Pledge Verse 2
i. Our family, the owner of Cheon Il Guk,
ii. pledges to represent and become central to heaven
and earth
iii. by attending God and True Parents; we pledge to
iv. perfect* the dutiful family way of filial sons and
daughters in our family, patriots in our nation,
v. saints in the world, and divine sons and daughters in
heaven and earth, by centering on true love.
*complete may be a more accurate translation.