The Unification Church regards marriage as God's blessing. The Holy Wedding of the Unification Church symbolizes establishing a connection with God and the linking of the entire human race together as brothers and sisters transcending the barriers of race, nation and religion. The Holy Wedding is a sacred ceremony by which a man and a woman receive God's blessing through the True Parents of humankind who thus enable them to become a couple of eternal true love. The two will become a true couple, establish a true family and realize a peaceful ideal world through embodying God's heart.

The Holy Wedding of the Unification Church breaks the spiral of self-centered love that causes us misery. Countless blessed families of the Unification Church are already sharing love and friendship across the barriers of race and nation. Though people's national backgrounds may differ, ultimately we all live on the earth under one God--whether we are from a poor country or from a highly developed country. However big this world may be, the blessed families of the Unification Church are harmonized with one main root centered on True Parents under God's love. They live with the ideal, "The world is one family, the human race is one family and all people are brothers and sisters."

We would like to introduce you to Reverend Sun Myung Moon's words on the Blessing and ideal family, and outline the history of the Blessing beginning from his own marriage and spanning to the 360,000-couple Blessing of 1995. The content will clarify the significance and value of the Holy Wedding of the Unification Church, and include information on the 3.6 million-couple Blessing to be held in Washington DC, USA, in 1997.

We will also feature stories of blessed families who are sharing the friendship of true love in all corners of the world, and present you with an opportunity to ponder about true love and marriage in this age.

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