Dr. Hak Ja Han Moon-True Mother's Sunday Sermon at the Manhattan Center

 

Nov4, 2012 courtesy of Mihoko Gonzalez How have you been doing? Are you okay? Please be seated. How long was it when you saw me the last time? Anyone who came to the Seonghwa ceremony in Korea, please raise your hand. Not so many people. You watched Father’s Seonghwa ceremony, and what did you feel? Lately New York and New Jersey suffe red a lot from Hurricane Sandy. I am aware of that, and while I was traveling, I witnessed it, and also I know it was not easy for you to come here today. I really want to say something nice to you, but I cannot. Do you know why? We know the Divine Principle and we learned the meaning of indemnity. God prepared people for each age, and if they cannot fulfill their responsibility, then people will have to pay indemnity. Without paying indemnity, they cannot really make progress. You know that, right? You know that, right? “You Are Chosen People” What do you think I am going to say at this point? Do you think there is some kind of indemnity, some kind of judgment? If you cannot realize that, then you will have to pay greater indemnity. Do you know that? So what should you do? It’s not a matter of just working hard. That’s not good enough. You are chosen people. You are chosen family members and you are from the chosen nation, America. However, in front of God, in front of heaven, in front of humanity, you are very much indebted. In your lifetime, you cannot pay it back. Even if you pay through many generations in the future, still you may not be able to pay everything back. Do you know why? When God chose the Israelites, do you know how much suffering God went through? God finally sent Jesus, his begotten son. He was born, yet what did the people of Israel and Judaism do? They let Jesus die on the cross. The history of Christianity is 2,000 years and what happened to the people of Israel? They could not avoid indemnity. You need to understand this. I already said, in God’s providence, whether it is a people or individuals or a nation, if they fail to fulfill their responsibility, then they will have to pay indemnity. You need to understand that. If so, today what is the situation in America? “America as the Elder Son Nation” Ever since Father founded the Unification Church, he always worked for God. His life has always been public. Out of 60 years, Father spent 40 years here in America. I’m not exaggerating it at all. Our Fatherland is Korea. However, Father invested a longer time here in America. Why? Because Father loved all humanity and Father gave incredible blessing to America as the elder son nation. His responsibility is to bring all siblings to True Parents. You should think of it day and night. Have you ever thought about that? At this time, True Parents, the Messiah, the Savior, came here to America. We have a small number of Blessed Family members. Why don’t all people know about the Lord of the Second Coming? Whose responsibility is this? If you cannot fulfill your responsibility here on earth, what will happen when you go to the spirit world? There are more than six billion people here on earth. At some point in time they will have to go to spirit world. What will happen? There are already many spirits in the spirit world, and at that time they will accuse you, and you cannot stand before them. You will have to run away before them. Have you ever thought about it? That’s the reason why Father worked day and night without resting at all, all his life. Even myself, I lived with Father. I have never slept more than three hours while I was living with Father. That’s why I am always tired. I am a human being too. Yet now our Father went to spirit world and he is beyond time and space, and he will be working harder, right? He will have no time at all to sleep. I’m saying this today not only for you but for future generations, for your posterity, especially descendants; I want to open up a path for them. If you do not fulfill your responsibility, then your descendants will have to carry a heavier burden. They will suffer more. That’s what you need to understand. I’m not trying to give you a hard time. That is a fact. A Need for a “Turning Point” Hyung Jin’s couple came to visit Father in Hannamdong [True Parents’ residence in Seoul, Korea], and one day Father said, “Okay, Hyung Jin, if I am drowning and your wife is drowning, who are you going to save?” “Oh, of course, I have to save you first.” That’s what Hyung Jin said. Then Father laughed. Then Hyung Jin talked to his wife about it. “The reason I said that is because if I don’t save True Father first then I will live in hell forever.” That’s what Hyung Jin said. What about you? Do you think you fulfilled your responsibility or not? If you didn’t, then what should you do? You have to risk your lives and then you have to invest yourself 100 percent. However, the way you have been living will not work. You need to come up with some kind of turning point. You watched the video of the Seonghwa ceremony. Whether it is Father or me, we are totally united. There is a preparation time period for us to be totally one. Think about it. Suppose you purchased a house. What do you do once you move in? First, you need to turn on the lights, right? Then you would buy some furniture, and you prepare for the house to be livable, right? Then you can start enjoying life there. The 40-day time period was very important for both Father and me. Father really trusted you, yet despite Father’s trust and love for you, the result is very, very disappointing. Father said, “Maybe I should not have done that.” That’s why I said, “Okay, let me bring our church members back to the beginning time of our church.” Then Father said, “Omma, thank you.” That’s what Father said. Our church members in the old days still have the heart of devotion and sincerity. But there was an incredible gap between generations, between the older generation and the younger generation, and Blessed Central Family members, especially senior family members, did not think of the future of this nation. Since you really did not take care of your children better, educate them better, Heaven is really agonizing over it. Father worked so hard all of his life. He raised all people and Father wanted all family members to really restore their tribes and people in society. If they really fulfilled it, then when Father passed away, we could have sent him off in a much better way. All 6.5 billion people would have noticed what happened. They would have decided what kind of path they had to go. However, we were not prepared for that. A Pledge to Take Responsibility I feel we committed incredible sins, and we are very much indebted to heaven. So during this time, I want to see you pledging yourself that you will take responsibility. First, you need to really repent. You must be humble first. Do not ever talk about what you want. There are so many things that we really did not do right. We did not bring good results, and you must be speechless. Even if you have a mouth, you are not qualified to open it. If so, who can you really accuse? You yourselves are the problem more than anything, don’t you think so? You should wear humble clothes and be really wailing for 365 days. Still, that would not be sufficient because you are such a sinner. You really want to be loved, but you do not want to share love. We could not really make progress. For 40 years, our Father worked so hard, yet our Unification Church members could not fulfill their responsibility. If we had an incredible 100 million people as members, then the situation in America will change, don’t you think? So while I was struggling in America, once again I asked for forgiveness from Heaven. Mothers should be stronger in educating their children. That’s why I talked to my daughters-in-law, and I said, “You should become even stronger than your own husband.” The Israelites suffered a lot. They paid incredible indemnity, yet to this day they are doing quite well. Why? Because of their mothers. Did you know that? The same should be true of Unification Church families. You women should be able to do things well and raise your husbands right. Do you know that? So mothers should not be only loving, tender and sweet. Mothers should be able to spank also. Do you welcome it? If you welcome it then applaud out loud. The Necessity for Repentance and Devotion Representing the entire world, you need to really repent. Although Father worked so hard here for 40 years, there is nothing you have returned, and you are so unworthy in many ways. Yet True Parents still have compassion over us. We will fulfill our responsibility this time. You Unificationists, I want you to become that kind of person, please. Will you follow my words? This is the last time that I can trust you. There cannot be another chance. This is your last chance. Until the end of my life – I don’t know how long it will be, maybe 20 years, 30 years – I will do my very best. Every day I’m going to gather some reports from people throughout the world. Do you understand what I’m trying to say? Since I’m going to work that hard, I want you also to work hard as well. Once again, I am pleading with you. When you go to the spirit world, if Father can say, “Oh, here you are. I’m glad to see you,” that’s the kind of people we should become. You should become such children of God and True Parents. That’s what I wish from you. I think I spoke quite a bit and I’m not going to speak any longer. We need to really express our devotion and love to our Heavenly Father and our True Father. I suggest to our family members that we can express our love to God and True Father. We can sing for him. Songs were offered from Various Groups including True Children, Daughters in-law, Korean, Japanese and then American Leaders.

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Dr. Hak Ja Han Moon: “Women as the Turning Point for Peace and the Abel Women’s UN”

| October 29 2012 

Distinguished guests from around the world, peace leaders and women representatives from all 50 states of America!
Dear members of the Women’s Federation for World Peace USA, and WFWP International.
My husband, the Reverend Sun Myung Moon, who has ascended to the spirit world, and I, would like to extend our sincere welcome to you for coming to Las Vegas to attend this historic WFWP USA Turning Point Assembly for the ‘Abel Women’s UN.’ We are gathered here to commemorate the twentieth anniversary of the Women’s Federation for World Peace in the United States.
First, I would like to express my sincere gratitude to the seven million caring leaders and citizens from 194 nations who sent their great love and respect to me upon the passing of Rev. Moon. Thank you to all who visited the prepared altars around the world to offer condolences.
Rev. Moon came to earth as the True Parent of humankind, and proclaimed throughout his life, the vision of an ideal world that was God’s purpose at the Creation. He devoted all his effort, often at the risk of his life, to promote a peaceful world where conflict and war could no longer exist.
This past July 16, after completing a busy schedule in America, Reverend Moon and I returned to Korea where we proclaimed it the providential homeland of God. Immediately upon our arrival, we held the inaugural rally for the ‘Abel Women’s UN’ – an organization led by women that will play an active role in building a peaceful world in this new era.
The event was attended by 25,000 people at the World Peace Center in Cheongpyeong, Korea. Among them were women leaders representing 194 nations.
Beloved women leaders: that was the last providential event on earth that Rev. Moon hosted. About 50 days later, he put the providence on earth in order, and then prayed the words, “I have completed everything.” Soon afterward, he passed into the heavenly realm. In the Korean language, this transition is called the seonghwa, which means “Ascension of Peace and Harmony.”
CREATION OF THE ABEL WOMEN’S UN
Beloved women leaders from around the world, we now carry the heavy responsibility to complete the providential mission of the ‘Abel Women’s UN,’ which is the final organization that Rev. Moon and I created together.
Let me explain what I mean by the term, “Abel Women’s UN.”
As you may be aware, people who endured unbearable suffering all over the world in the aftermath of the catastrophic Second World War, founded the United Nations with a deep yearning for peace based on the viewpoint that war must never be waged again. This was in accordance with God’s will.
However, what is the reality today? In the almost 70 years of the United Nations’ existence, it has been unable to prevent the outbreak of war, including the Korean War. Although the Cold War has ended, the world is still not free from the threat of war. There are still conflicts large and small which stem from divisions between rich and poor, different races, and people of different faiths. Despite the original intention of its founding mission to maintain global peace, the UN has seen repeated breakdown in its efforts to attain that noble goal.
At the time of the inauguration of the UN, there was a compromise negotiated between the United States and the former Soviet Union, rendered by the confrontational structure of the Cold War. As a result, the UN was limited in its ability to bring about a lasting world peace sufficient to transcend the interests of individual nations.
This is why we have proclaimed that, from the viewpoint of God’s Will, the UN has been unable to emerge from the position of ‘Cain’ – representing a secular view of life from which the heart of God is missing.  We now emphasize that the re-creation of an Abel United Nations that recognizes God, is an absolutely critical step toward building a world of lasting peace. 
Unending peace for humankind is what God envisioned at the time of the Creation.

Respected women of peace!
The United Nations has struck a brick wall and is unable to move beyond merely attempting to balance the self-interests of its individual nations. Until now we have depended on government organizations, created by men, to bring about global peace. To surmount the limitations of their efforts, I believe that a peace movement of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), guided by women, should take root as the cornerstone of a new system that can resolve problems arising with respect to world peace.
Such a dynamic women’s peace movement can only be realized through global cooperation that goes beyond the NGO level. It is our sincere hope that the launch of the ‘Abel Women’s UN’ can establish itself as a starting point in society, with the new leadership paradigm of the Global Women’s Peace Network (GWPN).
A NEW WOMEN’S PEACE MOVEMENT
Looking back, today’s historic ‘Abel Women’s UN’ assembly actually began in 1992 with the establishment of the Women’s Federation for World Peace, which the Reverend Sun Myung Moon and I jointly founded as a central organization for a new women’s peace movement. With the declaration of “the advent of the global era of women,” by Rev. Moon, WFWP was inaugurated on April 10, 1992, at Olympic Stadium in Seoul, in accordance with the Will of Heaven. That inaugural event was attended by women representatives from some 70 nations plus 150,000 Korean women. 
The goal of WFWP was not to become another secular women’s organization. It does not aim to be an external, political, or combative women’s rights movement targeting the misdeeds of men. Nor does it exist just to advocate the expansion of women’s rights, gender equality and the women’s labor movement. Rather, it is a global peace movement on an entirely new level with the providential significance of realizing the ideal world that was God’s vision at the time of Creation.
WFWP was inaugurated in an historic moment of providential significance, and has engaged in diverse activities over the past 20 years, geared to realizing the vision and ideals of pure love, happy families, and a peaceful world that transcends the barriers of race, religion, language, and national boundaries. This has been carried out in the spirit of Rev. Moon’s founding message, which urged us to expand a model movement of true love to the whole world based on living for the sake of others.
WFWP is an organization compelled by maternal love.  We have achieved remarkable growth and development through promoting the establishment of families centered on true love. Its extensive educational programs and worldwide volunteer activities are aimed at elevating the status of women. These activities have contributed to the alleviation of international conflicts and have excelled at promoting reconciliation.
In September 1993, after only one year of active service, I was invited to give an address at the UN headquarters in New York; and then, after three years of sincere investment and hard work, the Women’s Federation for World Peace was approved by the United Nations’ Economic and Social Council as an NGO in General Consultative Status, which is the highest status given to an NGO by the United Nations. Since then, our status has been approved continuously at the reevaluations held every four years. I am confident to say that these reviews reveal and endorse our true value, based on our activities and achievements. Among the more than 3,500 NGOs affiliated with the UN, only 140 have received the General Consultative Status that WFWP has achieved.
SUBSTANTIAL EFFORTS TO BUILD PEACE
Our WFWP Women’s Conference for Peace in the Middle East has been held every year since 1997.  It has attracted much interest and participation from women leaders of more than 20 nations from the Middle East. It has now expanded and given birth to more concrete activities in the field, which I am glad to be able to report.
For example, this year WFWP sponsored the sixteenth annual Middle East Conference, which was held as a session of the Human Rights Council at the United Nations Office in Geneva. That conference, entitled “Children affected by conflict and disaster: Prevention, protection, healing and empowerment” was attended by women leaders from 18 nations of the Middle East and by diplomatic officials, UN ambassadors to Geneva, representatives from UN agencies and global NGOs from around the world. These 180 or so participants came together to discuss this very severe issue of children’s protection. The women gathered came to many serious conclusions, and resolved to apply solutions in the field, and to reconvene with their results and findings.
Today, each of the WFWP chapters around the world is actively conducting relief work to address problems caused by natural calamities and poverty in various parts of our global village. One outstanding program is the “1% Love Share Project” which helps women and children in North Korea. Their slogan, “Let us share a little of what we have,” has helped to reach so many people and, I am happy to tell you, they have achieved wonderful results.
From the founding of WFWP, and reaching the highest status as an NGO in consultative status under the UN, our members have never lost their vision for a loving and safe world, and have quietly pioneered the path of a women’s peace movement with an unwavering heart. WFWP stands at the center of a new women’s movement for world peace, continuing to emerge fresh and vibrant with the power to heal.
At this time, I would like to request a big round of applause to express our infinite gratitude to these women leaders all over the world who have never held back in their encouragement and participation.
However, WFWP must not remain at its current level. It must now develop to the next level by working in common cause and cooperation with women leaders and NGOs from all parts of the world, to serve greater numbers of women and families in smaller and more remote parts of the world.

WFWP should go beyond the level of a women’s NGO, and bring together governments, organizations and individuals from every country to forge a unified international effort modeling the ideal of the ‘Abel Women UN’ by utilizing the Global Women Peace Network.  Let’s work together to bring this about, and in fact, it is God’s absolute decree.
FOUNDATION DAY IS JUST AHEAD!
In giving my sincere congratulations and encouragement to the excellent women here today, I would like to declare the launch of the United States Assembly for the ‘Abel Women’s UN’.
As we usher in an age of universal and historic revolutionary change, I would like to emphasize the shining truth that women make up half the world’s population. Let us now become aware of our historic mission to expand the scope of our activities to all regions of the world.
Beloved women leaders who seek peace! What is the path that humankind should take today? In the end, the problems afflicting humanity can only be resolved through the logic of love and the understanding that we are all one family under God. This is the teaching of true love with God at the center that my husband and I, as the True Parents, received from Heaven. We have championed and taught this precious truth throughout our lives. This ideal represents the path that will lead humanity to a world of everlasting peace and happiness.
This is a historic time of a great cosmic revolution in which we must change history. We must harmonize the spiritual and physical worlds and create the ideal kingdom of heaven that God has longed for since the beginning of time.  We can no longer postpone or delay it. Heaven has already proclaimed that the thirteenth day of the first lunar-calendar month in 2013 will be Foundation Day.
Therefore, it is now time for all people to be humbly obedient to Heaven’s decree. I hope you will bear in mind today, that this fateful date of Foundation Day is approaching and that we need to devote ourselves completely with a commitment of intense sincerity until that day comes. Let us go forward together, following the guidance of True Father, the King of Peace, and Savior of Humanity, who now presides over God’s Providence from the heavenly realm, and that of True Mother here on earth!
Beloved women leaders! The course for humanity is set. Now that we have the upcoming Foundation Day, which heaven has given us through the True Parents, what reason is there to hesitate? We now have less than four months to go. Heaven will bless your endeavors to establish a world of peace through the leadership of the Abel Women’s UN.
I would like to reemphasize that the priority of the ‘Abel Women’s UN’ is to create a true family movement that emphasizes “living for the sake of others,” based on true love, and is carried out in conjunction with education focused on principled true family values.
WOMEN AS A TURNING POINT
Beloved leaders!
We women were not put on earth merely to help, or to be protected by, men. We are independent individuals who, as representatives of the feminine aspect of God’s nature, are meant to help men become more complete. Through true love, women are to be men’s precious partners in love. Men and women are absolutely equal in terms of value.
Men and women who unite through the true love that is inherent in the original ideal share the same position and have equal worth. Also, they attain the right to be with each other, wherever they may be. Thus, a man and woman who are brought into oneness through the original love in God’s ideal of true love have been created as equal beings, sharing not only the same status and the right of participation, but also their possessions with each other.
Men and women do not need to struggle with each other, because they do not need to imitate the characteristics, dispositions or roles of the other. It is not necessary to confront, compete or covet the things of the other, or take them by force. Instead, by giving what one has to the other, with true love, and by completing the other, they can become united as a greater whole and share in a relationship of joint ownership.
Now women and men should play a major role in world history, by serving alongside each other like the wheels of a great engine pulling the construction of a peaceful world forward. Today I invite women to accept an important role and become the turning point in building a new century characterized by a loving, peaceful culture.
I sincerely ask you to follow the path of a true mother, the path of a true wife, the path of a true daughter and true sister, and the path of a true woman leader, who will build a unified world where freedom, peace, and happiness overflow. Begin in your family, your church, your community.
Rev. Moon always urged us to live without casting any shadow, which he called a “life set at high noon.” If every one of us lives like a brightly shining lamp, no shadows will be cast. No places of darkness will be created. If we only receive things, they become our debts. Please repay your debts by living a life of true love, of living for others, spreading light throughout the world and wiping away the tears of those less fortunate.
Ladies and gentlemen, I am grateful to you for listening closely to me today. I pray that God’s blessing will be with you, with your families and with your work.
Thank you!