Cheon Seong Gyeong 531
What do you think the color of love would be? Do you think it would be black at night, white during the daytime, and yellow in the evening? In the central color of love there is a strength that can bring peace and unity and create the concept of the equality of humanity. Isn’t the Unificationist concept of love beautiful? The color of love in today’s American society is, in short, a disgusting color of death. Instead of realizing the world of the eternal ideal of creation through conjugal love, they are sinking into the pit of death. Those who thoughtlessly enter the most holy place of love will suffer the fire of judgment. Until they receive the Blessing, men and women must keep their most holy place of love undefiled, and once they have made love, they must continue to keep it undefiled. However, Americans generally are wicked men and women who violate love’s sanctuary.
Americans who do not accept marriage through the Blessing are nothing but patients who cannot see ahead because they are blinded by fallen love. If American society continues to behave like this, it will have no hope for the future but instead will be filled only with despair. It is crystal clear that it will eventually be destroyed – not by God’s judgment but rather by people who have lost their humanity. (Blessed Family – 344)
Cheon Seong Gyeong 1846
If there is a professor from a marine university in that area, or if any studies on the fish in these waters have been done, you should conduct tests to see whether those studies were correct and accurately record the details in a book. You should inspect the seas that border the coastal states, gather everybody together and make plans to fish anywhere you go. In those states that border on the ocean, you should measure the depth and temperature of all the fishing areas, conduct research on the types of fish that live in that sea area, and then make a book on your findings. I am buying boats for you so that you can accomplish this. All twenty-four states bordering on the ocean should compile a book about their fishing grounds. If your state is not near an ocean, you should do so anyway centering on its lakes. Then from now on I am going to coach everyone on how to farm fish. (94-109, 1977.7.29)
Cheon Seong Gyeong
Selections from the Speeches of Rev. Sun Myung Moon
Book 7
Etiquette and Ceremonies
Chapter 4
Section 11. A Life of Sanctification
Section 12. Rituals in the Life of Blessed Families
12.1. Pledge service
Summary:
Every Sunday morning and on the first day of each month at five o’clock, a husband and wife should joyfully offer a full bow together facing church headquarters to report on their weekly lives and align directly with God. Although this official Pledge service should ideally happen every day, it is restricted to these specific mornings as a spiritual condition to avoid potential negative side effects. Parents must treat this serious hour with absolute punctuality, repent if they are even a second late, and share holy candy with their children as a form of Holy Communion. Ultimately, strictly observing these morning pledges, devotions, and family services is essential for parents to set an exemplary standard of faith, teach their children God’s will, and establish a strong family foundation that can eventually expand to include their entire tribe.
On the first day of each month, the husband and wife in each family should offer a full bow together at five o’clock in the morning, facing church headquarters. This should be done in a joyful atmosphere. You should also do this at five o’clock in the morning on Sundays. You should report about everything in your daily life during the week. Sunday should be a joyful day that you long to have come quickly. (13-104, 1963.11.1)
Pledge service should not be done only on Sunday mornings. Basically, we should do it every day. When you rise in the morning, you should first do Pledge service facing headquarters. It is an official ceremony. However, if we do Pledge service like that every day, there can be adverse effects. In order to avoid these side effects, as a condition, we do pledge only on Sunday mornings and on the mornings of the first day of each month. Ideally, we should be doing it every day. (31-274, 1970.6.4)
You should stand in a straight line with God at least during morning Pledge service. It is a truly serious hour. You should repent if you are even one second late. You should also prepare some candy as holy food, like you would for Holy Communion, and share it with your children. (27-85, 1969.11.26)
You cannot expect your children to grow well when you do not even strictly observe morning Pledge service, devotion, and Sunday service. You should establish a four-position foundation centering upon True Parents. In order to raise good descendants, the parents should do well. (21-87, 1968.10.27)
On May 5, 2004, Rev. Moon initiated Ahn Shi IL, which is the Day of Attendance of Safe Settlement. Unificationists now pledge the Family Pledge once every eight days on Ahn Shi IL, and ideally, every day. Read more about Ahn Shi IL here. You can find the Ahn Shi IL schedule on the traditional Unification Calendar, here.
12.2. Family service
Parents should set a good example in their life of faith. In their family, they should show their children, in their prayer life or family worship, a life of faith that is exemplary in every way. They should help children realize the importance of Pledge time. It is not enough just to hold Pledge service during that hour. As parents, they should teach their children about God’s will. (31-266, 1970.6.4)
You should continue to expand the environment that will enable your entire tribe to attend family service in any place. (236-72, 1992.11.2)
Whether or not you participate in church gatherings will become an issue; whether or not you fulfill your responsibility in church activities will become an issue; and whether or not you become a good example as a parent in front of your children in family life will become an issue. (31-268, 1970.6.4)
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