Please Let Us Become Children Who Return Loyalty and Filial Piety in Response to the Benefits You Have Given

We must understand that if a child has received benefits from his parents, he must repay those benefits, and if a person has received benefits from his nation, that subject must offer his full loyalty to the king.

When we think that you have given us everything for our lives here on the earth, we must fulfill our duties of filial piety and loyalty to repay this grace we have received, and we must become high priests who, with a united heart, can represent the world you desire.

We must realize that this is the way that the people of the Unification Church must go. We know that the life of people who have taken on that responsibility is such that we cannot sleep when others are sleeping, and we cannot rest and play when others are resting and playing.

Today the Unification Church is not just responsible for itself; rather, it is carrying a historical responsibility. We know that the way we Unification members must go must be gone with minds that limit our footsteps which cannot go quickly along this way we must run for the sake of the Will, and we must urge ourselves on even as we walk quickly.

Because you have done that, Father, we who are your sons and daughters who hold up your Will must also do that. We have realized that if we want to leave this behind, we must become sacrifices. Because of that, even after we have gone away, we feel sorrow there, and we come to feel that we must urge our footsteps back towards our work once again.

If we have understood that our joy when we have found a family is greater than our joy when we have found an individual, then we also understand that for you as well, your joy when you have found a family will be greater than your joy when you have found an individual.

Furthermore, we know that your joy will be greater when you have found a tribe than your joy when you have found a family, and greater for a people than a tribe, greater for a nation than a people, and greater when you have the world rather than a nation.

When we think about these things, we realize that we must understand how much you must have longed for the desire in your deepest heart which is to greet the day when you can give your blessings and embrace the entire universe with songs and dance as a sing to the entire cosmos of your joy over having found such a world.

As for the many people living on this earth, no one was able to long for that and no one even imagined it, but you have given us this current position where we can experience and keenly feel this through our religion of unification which is advancing in the real course of our lives and not just in our minds.

We know that all this is your love, your compassion, your mercy, your overflowing grace, and we must offer our gratitude to you once again.

When we think that you have brought the blessing beyond the peak of the world level, we realize we must not become people who are fit to inherit the anguish of pitiful, shabby losers who did not understand properly the position they were facing and tried to just go beyond it as they were.

We must be able to struggle to proudly bequeath the inexpressibly mighty favor you have bestowed upon us for thousands and tens of thousands of years through tens of thousands of generations of our descendants by giving our full devotion and giving our full loyalty to shine beautifully and bequeath it.

We must understand that without doing that, we cannot establish our prestige on our own in front of you. Furthermore, we earnestly hope that you will let us become sons and daughters who can praise your grandeur and infinite value and shed tears before your generosity and grace while reflecting on our pasts once again and critiquing our present situations once again.

We have humbly prayed all these things in the holy name of the True Parents.

Amen.