Hak Ja Han
September 12, 2014
True Mother officiating the joint Holy Wedding
This heavenly Blessing Ceremony, held in autumn, the season when grains ripen, took place in Cheon Jeong Gung. The engagement ceremony of True Parents' youngest two children, Yeon Jin nim and Jeung Jin nim, was held on September 12, in Cheon Jeong Gung. True Mother presided over the event. In accordance with True Mother's instructions, the two couples went through a forty-day special workshop in the Chung Pyung Heaven and Earth Training Center before their joint Holy Wedding. During this period, True Mother also offered sincere prayers and conditions to prepare for this Holy Wedding.
On September 12, True Parents officiated Yeon Jin nim's and Jeung Jin nim's joint Holy Wedding. Guests included about three hundred church leaders from various countries and other distinguished figures. The ceremony started with the lighting of candles and was followed by the Cheon Il Guk national anthem. Rev. Young Hwi Kim then offered a report prayer to Heaven, expressing his gratitude for this blessing grace that has opened a world of liberation and complete freedom through international marriages, transcending all barriers.
Sun Jin nim and her husband In Sup nim lighting the Holy Wedding candles
Rev. Kyeong Seuk Lu making the opening declaration
Following this, True Mother entered the hall to officiate the Holy Wedding. After True Mother's entrance, Yeon Jin nim and her groom and Jeung Jin nim and her groom also entered, one after the other, through a central path lined with flowers. "As brides and grooms chosen within the special grace of the True Parents of Heaven, Earth and Humankind, do you vow to serve our Heavenly Parent, who is central and is above, and become true families that practice true love, which means living for the sake of others through absolute faith, absolute love and absolute obedience?" The brides and grooms affirmed the holy vows with great strength. The brides and grooms promised they would love each other eternally and exchanged rings in front of True Mother. Following this, True Mother gave her benediction, offering it in front of Heavenly Parent and with the hope that the couples would make model families in front of humanity. True Mother's proclamation of the Holy Wedding rang throughout the hall.
True Mother's proclamation of the Holy Wedding
"Beloved Heavenly Parent, Thank you. Thank you. For more than seventy years, you took particular care in raising me as your only begotten daughter, and you, my Father, protected me throughout countless adversities and hardships that I went through until I reached the position of a True Parent. You are the only one who knows and remembers the circumstances and countless challenges that I had to overcome at each twist and turn of this historical course as a True Parent. Nevertheless, Father, I am grateful.
We are aware of how difficult, lonely and painful your course was after the Fall, in search of the True Parent, the one who can realize the hope of our Heavenly Parent, and fulfill what you had envisaged at the time of the Creation. Thank you, Father, for waiting for such a long time.
Today, I offer thanks to you from the bottom of my heart for your grace in allowing the blessing of Yeon Jin and Jeung Jin, the last children in True Parents' family. I pray that from now, you, Father, can have direct dominion over the families of my two daughters. I promise that my two daughters shall form true families that can become examples to all of the world's seven billion people, that can become your pride, and that can accelerate the fulfillment of your wish of establishing Cheon Il Guk, God's kingdom on earth, which you desired and aimed to create throughout providential history.
Beloved Father, may you be joyful. Today, in the name of the True Parents of Heaven, Earth and Humankind, I proclaim before heaven, earth and all the cosmos the Holy Wedding of these two families, Yeon Jin and Jan, and Jeung Jin and Jo. Aju!"
Brides and grooms in front of the offering table; go through the Pyebaek Ceremony
Then congratulatory songs were sung, expressing wishes for the future happiness of the two couples. Next, the couples bowed to one another and the guests. With the beautiful decorated stage behind them, the True Family took commemorative photographs to remember this moment for eternity. True Mother then exited the hall. Finally, it was time for the couples to leave the hall and conclude the Holy Wedding. With every step, they took down the aisle adorned with flowers, on their way out, the providence unfolded like a continuous surge of waves.
Yeon Jin nim, Jeung Jin nim and True Mother before Pyebaek, a traditional rite held after a wedding
True Parents have proclaimed a new era through which humanity and the Cain realm, which represents all people, can now be connected to Heaven's good lineage, thereby transcending the era when blessed families had to graft to the True Family's lineage. Following the Holy Wedding, Pyebaek, a traditional ceremony held after Korean weddings, was held in the presence of True Family members and elder church members.
This was a time of grace, through which True Mother's great love for Yeon Jin nim and her husband and Jeung Jin nim and her husband, who were all wearing traditional wedding clothes, could be felt. After Pyebeak, the Holy Wedding banquet was held in the banquet hall in Cheon Jeong Gung. This was a time of great blessing, a time filled with True Mother's love and blessings from members of the True Family and elder members. The two couples presented flowers to True Mother. Cake-cutting in celebration of this Holy Wedding also took place.
Kwon Jin nim, representing the True Family, sang a congratulatory song. A variety of congratulatory performances were then presented. Later, True Mother sang, "Saranghae" for True Father, highlighting the finale of the event. Participants expressed their deepest gratitude to True Parents for their love and grace in embracing and bringing salvation to all people and were determined to become true blessed families that forgive, love and unite.
Young Hwi Kim's report Prayer at the Holy Wedding
Rev. Young Hwi Kim offering the report prayer
Our Heavenly Parent, the Owner of true love, true life and true lineage who reigns over the whole creation, and our True Parents of Heaven, Earth and Humankind, the victorious King and Queen of Peace! Today, I offer my deep gratitude to our Heavenly Parent and True Parents of Heaven, Earth and Humankind for permitting and presiding over Yeon Jin nim's and Jeung Jin nim's Joint Holy Wedding.
Beloved True Parents of Heaven, Earth and Humankind, Today, Yeon Jin nim, born on February 7, 1981, and Jeung Jin nim, born on June 14, 1982, are about to begin their family lives through this sacred ceremony. These are the two daughters True Father particularly loved from their childhood. As they begin anew on the family level, please bless the significant courses of these two daughters and guide them so that they are not inadequate as members of heavenly families.
Amid worldwide opposition, True Parents overcame Satan's realm on the cosmic level and established a victorious foundation. It was on this foundation that True Father said we could go beyond any limits and international marriages could be held for the restoration of the Cain realm. He said that gaining equilibrium by going through this process without creating a level plane would result in liberation on earth even if not complete emancipation and freedom. Today's Holy Wedding was prepared based on such teachings of Father's.
Hence, please enable the spiritual and physical worlds to unite on this day and celebrate this ceremony. Through True Parents becoming the first original ancestors that our Heavenly Parent had for so long wished to see, a new heavenly tribe, with a lineage changed to that of God, could be generated for the first time on earth and in the spirit world. Based on this foundation, blessed families born through the benediction of our Heavenly Parent and the True Parents of Heaven, Earth and Humankind are enthusiastically carrying out activities worldwide, investing their everything for the establishment of Cheon Il Guk, which is True Parents' great hope.
Please guide us in fulfilling our responsibility as tribal messiahs in restoring all people as members of blessed families and thereby firmly establishing Cheon Il Guk on earth. Beloved Heavenly Parent and the True Parents of Heaven, Earth and Humankind! We have entered the third year since True Father's ascension.
True Father, who had established all conditions while on earth, is now working with True Mother from heaven. True Mother is guiding the providence on earth, united in heart, body, thought and harmony with True Father and she is continuously advancing in order to complete True Father's tradition and legacy.
Though we are inadequate, we will do everything possible to accomplish True Mother's call that we convey True Parents' teachings to all the people of this nation by 2020, which will be the year we celebrate True Father's one hundredth birthday and the sixtieth anniversary of True Parents' Holy Wedding.
Beloved Heavenly Parent! Please preside over and guide this holy ceremony, and allow this to become an opportunity for Cheon Il Guk -- which True Parents desire more than anything else -- to put down strong roots on earth. I report all this in my name, Young Hwi Kim, of a blessed central family. Aju!
The audience acknowledges the brides and grooms as they enter