The Words of the Ablong Family
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The Words of the Ablong Family |
Our individual missions and responsibilities contribute to the fulfillment of our overall purpose as blessed central families, to realize God's Will by January 13, 2013 onwards. -- Main point from Today's Sunday Service, November 7, 2010
1. Intensive follow-up on Blessed Families' attendance of Sunday Services is underway. Let us talk to our spouses about how to do Sunday Service together as a group of families. The options are:
a.) Sunday Service at Japan Church. Our children are becoming teenagers and they need connection and positive socialization with other blessed children for their growth and protection. There are groups and organizations of Japan church that can help them grow positively with greater knowledge of their faith and tradition as well as to develop their full potential to contribute for our collective success.
b.) Group together at any blessed central family's home to do Sunday Service.
c.) It does not matter whether we do it 2x at home, 2x at Japan Church or 1 time at Japan Church or 3x at home with other families as long as we are doing it. The key objective is to increase the time, people, environment, frequency and intensity of interaction for our blessed children with other blessed children.
2. Our Continental Director has emphasized to us that we need to bring our children to Korea after they finish Japan middle school (case to case basis) or high school education for deeper interaction and Principle–based education with the 2nd generation.
About 80% of U.C. 2nd generation do not attend the blessing or attend Sunday Service. This is the fault and responsibility of the first generation (the parents). Japan's education is not ideal for our second generation members. Rev. Yong said that we don't really have to send them to private schools in Korea, they can also study in Korean public schools, colleges and universities. They can do part-time work in Japan during the summer so they can use their salaries for their own education in Korea during school days. This is possible because other families have done it.
100% of blessed children who go to Korea to pursue higher education receive the blessing. We have to prepare the mindset or socio-psychological environment of our children by allowing them to meet other blessed children. We need to give them the direction of their life at this time so they can make good choices for their future. If parents are not strong enough, their children will dominate them and will later not be able to control them. If we really love our children, then we have to be strong enough to have them practice our church traditions and go to Korea or the Philippines. Act now while we have time. We have to bring them to church and attend church activities there if we do not have a chance to do it as Filipino-Japanese families together.
We have to send our children to the blessing as early as when they are 15 so that we can prevent them from dating with non-blessed children. It is better that they will date with their future spouses. That is safer for them and their children, our 3rd generation.
Couples should bond together and consult with their wives about this issue. There needs to be a good relationship with our spouses to do this.
Let us think about how to achieve this goal while witnessing to other people about True Parents and the Blessing.
3. Everyone has to attend ODP (Original Divine Principle) Seminar. This can be done either by an actual attendance to a seminar or by watching, recording and answering some questions about ODP on DVD. Plans are in effect to produce a DVD version of a lecturer's ODP presentation that will be circulated to families or couples in Japan and other nations in Asia that do not have a chance to attend such a seminar.
4. IPLC students are waiting for sponsors. We can sponsor two students or as many students as possible. This is the best we can do to support Heavenly Providence in the Philippines and the world. Any IPLC student we sponsor for a monthly scholarship allowance of $50 or roughly Y5,000 will be registered as our spiritual children. This method is the surest way to have spiritual children and to support God's providence.
All donations should be sent to:
Account Name: Dr. Celso C. Talaba
Foundation, Inc.
Account Number: 726-2-27601002-0
Bank Name:
Metro Bank
Address: Ortigas Avenue East, Cainta, Rizal,
Philippines
Tel. No. 63-2-656-0795
For more information, contact: Jocelyn Saunar or Lovelyn M. Barrete
Website: iplc.ph
5. All blessed members in Japan should have a computer connected to the internet. This should be a MUST now. I have been suggesting this to our members here in the west for many years already but there are still some people who do not have computers. Having a computer connected to the internet is very important in this highly technological world. True Father's speeches, hundreds of them, can be accessed now through the net. There also various audio-visual resources that can be accessed for free. On top of that, communication is faster, faster and convenient. We can also do online witnessing and principle-based guidance and counseling. There are so many advantages and opportunities for growth on the net if we only have these two basic requirements: computer connected to the internet and the basic skills to operate it. It is never late to learn. Everyday is a chance to learn as long as we live.
6. Rev. Dr. Yong suggested that there is a need for us to organize a group for foreign workers in Japan that will include foreigners other than Filipinos working or living in Japan. Planning and meetings are underway to realize the project. Wait for more details about this later.
7. Brother Edgar Nacorda, PUCMJ National Executive Minister, is in the Philippines until November 9th.
Thank you.
Yours,
Rev. Rafael E. Ablong
Regional Minister
PUCMJ Western Japan
Let's first start with Romans, chapter 6 verse 5. Let's read this together,
"If we have been united with him like this in his death, we will certainly also be united with him in his resurrection." Aju!
These are the words of Saint Paul and he is of course reflecting on the Christian faith and becoming one with Christ in his death and also when he returns, when Christ returns, that we will certainly be united, we will become one with Christ and his mission and his purpose etc.. We will come together with him.
Now this is very important because for the Christian faith, the fundamental purpose of the Christian faith is awaiting the Lord to come; that the Lord will return and that when he returns we will serve him and build his kingdom. This is really the purpose of the Christian faith. It is to unite with Christ when he returns.
In Islam, we know that Islam also sees that Jesus is the Messiah and that he will also return. Very interestingly enough in the Hadith tradition when Jesus returns he will break the cross, he will shatter it, he will take it down. You may have heard about a messianic man who takes down crosses that we know of! So the Islamic tradition also sees the One who is to return.
Of course in the Hindu traditions we see the Kalki Avatar. In the Buddhist tradition we see the Maitreya Buddha. In the Confucian tradition we see the True Man, the Righteous One who will return and guide everybody back to benevolence and ethics etc…
And of course, we as Unificationists know who that individual is. We know who the returning Lord is. We know who the Lord of the Second Advent is. It is no surprise to us but it is of course a surprise to the world. But we want to give it up one time for our True Parents of Heaven and Earth. Let's give up for them, our True Parents! (Applause)
And this time we are by True Parents' blessing and order, we are traveling across the different nations and meeting the churches, the members there and also the leaders of the churches etc… At first when True Father told me, ordered me to go on a world tour, I didn't actually know why I had to go. Maybe of course to visit the members, to be with the members, also to be with our leaders there who are trying to develop the church in churches in their respective nations.
But I realize especially this time that we are not going only for the purpose of meeting the members and meeting the leaders and trying to help them with church growth and building their foundation in those respective nations, but we are visiting the spirits in the spirit world as well. This is what I realize very strongly this time. Especially our four great saints who are Jesus, Buddha, Confucius, and the Prophet Muhammad ("Salla Allahu 'Alaihi Wa Sallam", May blessing and peace of Allah be upon him.)
And when we go to these different lands, we have sought the lands and the homelands of our saints. We have gone last time to Nepal and to the Buddha's birthplace, Lumbini. We have seen where he grew up and also offered devotions there and prayers there for Buddha so that he can also work in returning resurrection on this earth. This time in going to Jerusalem and in various European states, we were able to visit Bethlehem of course the place where Jesus grew up in and of course we were able to go to the Garden of Gethsemane where he prayed before he was taken by the Roman guards. So we were also able to offer prayers and devotion to Jesus; to be with him in his land as well.
In November we will be going to the Arab world and going to visit the homeland and the region in which the Prophet Muhammad did his various religious works [Saudi Arabia] and many of the incredible things that he was able to accomplish. In December we will be visiting Qufu [China] which is the homeland of Confucius, and we will be able to offer devotions and also prayers there at the holy land of the birth place of Confucius.
But for me the question was, "Is there a connection of these things to the fatherland, to True Father's recent declaration of the substantial word of God, and the recent Seunghwa ascension festival that True Parents have been doing for about the last year?" I realized this time very strongly that True Parents are the ones who are bringing all the heavenly fortune to the fatherland of Korea. They are the only ones who are bringing the world's blessings to Korea.
True Father has declared that Korea is the homeland and the fatherland of God. He declared this in the declaration of the Substantial Word of God and this was done on the 8th of July, the 20th of July in Korea, in New York and again in Jerusalem, the first, second and third Israels. This kind of proclamation was made!
For us this may be something that we hear quite often, but for people in Jerusalem to think of Korea as a fatherland is outrageous. It doesn't make any sense. For them it is Jerusalem! That is the holy land, that is the chosen land that God has imbued with His spiritual presence. So even the fact of proclaiming that Korea, the small little peanut nation in the pacific rim is the Holy Land of God, this is incredible! It's so hard to believe! But we were able to proclaim this in Jerusalem.
True Father has also allowed something that he has never allowed before, which was doing the Seunghwa ascension ceremonies for the great leaders who are not Unificationists, that helped True Parents while they were alive like Alexander Haig or the previous president of Indonesia. But he has also allowed us to do the Seunghwa ceremonies for the soldiers who lost their lives, who died fighting for the freedom of the fatherland, the Korean Peninsula, the people who are the heroes who sacrificed themselves to liberate and save this country.
And this of course is very, very revolutionary! Father has only allowed Seunghwa ceremonies to Unificationists who had faith, who lived a life of faith and offered glory back to heaven their whole life and as they pass they are blessed with the Seunghwa ceremony and the eternal life and resurrection, etc…
But it is the first time that he has allowed us to offer this for tens of thousands of soldiers who have lost their life while fighting for this holy land. We know from True Parents' declaration that the holy land of God is Korea. This is a very big responsibility here for Korea.
But the next question is then, "What is the holiest day that God would celebrate?" Obviously as Unificationists we know what the holiest day of God would be during the year. It is the day that our True Parents come into the world -- because they both come on the same day, the same lunar day- and it is they who are able to liberate the historical misery, the pain, the resentment, the anxiety, even the anger of God by seeing his children continually not able to inherit his true love and inherit selfish love. So then if God is most happy on that day, most joyous on that day then also all the saints in the spirit world rejoice on that day.
And I realize that this is why True Parents were sending me on the world tour. As we go on the world tour we are bringing back the holy lands to Korea. All the spiritual power, fortune and blessing that the holy lands have are now pouring down spiritually into Korea. When I realize this, I realize also that the four great saints want to bless True Parents, want to work with True Parents and want to glorify True Parents in a substantial way.
And if we imagine that it is True Parents' birthday -- that is the month of January in the solar calendar -- and that the whole nation of Korea is coming to receive True Parents' blessing, to offer grace, offer devotion and sincerity but also to receive blessing from True Parents. Would this not be amazing if not only the nation of Korea but also the world would come! Think about how amazing that would be.
Read more at: www.tparents.org/Moon-Talks/HyungJinMoon-10/HyungJinMoon-100912.htm