The Words The Kwak Family

Revision of English Translation of the Family Pledge

Chung Hwan Kwak
August 4, 2006

Family Federation for World Peace and Unification International
13F Dowon Bldg., Dohwa 2 dong Mapo-gu, Seoul, Republic of Korea 121-040
Http://www.ffwpu.org Tel: (82-2) 6383-3200 Fax: (82-2) 6383-1500 E-mail: mission@tongil.or.kr

Ref. No. FFWPUI 2006-39

To: Continental Directors, National messiahs, National leaders
From: FFWPU International Headquarters
Date: August 4, 2006
Re.: Revision of English Translation of the Family Pledge

May the blessing and love of God and True Parents be with each continent, nation and providential organization as we usher in the era of the completed settlement of the model providence for the ideal of peace in heaven and on earth. This is to announce the new revised version of the English translation of the Family Pledge. The Family Pledge was originally announced on May 1, 1994, and since then has served as the standard of faith for all blessed families and members. On February 8, 1998, verse eight was added; and then on April 18, 2004, verse two and verse eight were revised. The new version announced at this time reflects certain revisions that have been made based on what True Father has said since the commencement of the Completed Testament Age. These revisions deal with parts of the initial translation which were under debate in terms of its rendering in English.

1. How to Recite the Family Pledge All blessed families, when reciting the Family Pledge, should do so in Korean.

2. The New Revised English Version of the Family Pledge (To be used as reference in understanding the meaning of the verses in the Korean Family Pledge.)

1. Our family, the owner of Cheon Il Guk, pledges to seek our original homeland and build the Kingdom of God on earth and in heaven, the original ideal of creation, by centering on true love.
2. Our family, the owner of Cheon Il Guk, pledges to represent and become central to heaven and earth by attending God and True Parents; we pledge to perfect the dutiful family way of filial sons and daughters in our family, patriots in our nation, saints in the world, and divine sons and daughters in heaven and earth, by centering on true love. 3. Our family, the owner of Cheon Il Guk, pledges to perfect the Four Great Realms of Heart, the Three Great Kingships and the Realm of the Royal Family, by centering on true love.
4. Our family, the owner of Cheon Il Guk, pledges to build the universal family encompassing heaven and earth, which is God's ideal of creation, and perfect the world of freedom, peace, unity and happiness, by centering on true love.
5. Our family, the owner of Cheon Il Guk, pledges to strive every day to advance the unification of the spirit world and the physical world as subject and object partners, by centering on true love.
6. Our family, the owner of Cheon Il Guk, pledges to become a family that moves heavenly fortune by embodying God and True Parents, and to perfect a family that conveys Heaven's blessing to our community, by centering on true love.
7. Our family, the owner of Cheon Il Guk, pledges, through living for the sake of others, to perfect the world based on the culture of heart, which is rooted in the original lineage, by centering on true love.
8. Our family, the owner of Cheon Il Guk, pledges, having entered the Completed Testament Age, to achieve the ideal of God and human beings united in love through absolute faith, absolute love and absolute obedience, and to perfect the realm of liberation and complete freedom in the Kingdom of God on earth and in heaven, by centering on true love.

Chung Hwan Kwak
International President
FFWPU

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