True Parents’ New Year Motto and Message
True Parents’ New Year Motto and Message
2025
(from Rev. Demian Dunkley)
Dear Family
Happy New Year!
As we step into 2025, let us take a moment to reflect on True Mother’s beautiful New Year’s message. Her words reminded us of our identity as blessed families and our sacred responsibility to live as True Children of Heavenly Parent. Even amidst the challenges and trials of the world, True Mother radiates hope, love, and determination. Her appearance—clad in a beautiful blue knit coat, symbolizing the year of the blue snake, and adorned with diamonds representing purity and eternity—reminds us of the purity and eternal joy we are called to embody in our lives of attendance.
This year marks the 13th year of Cheon Il Guk, a time when, as True Mother shared, we can attend Heavenly Parent in substance for the first time in human history. It is an awe-inspiring moment that challenges us to shed the burdens of the past, unite as one family under Heaven, and fulfill our roles as pioneers of a new era. Let us embrace this year’s motto with renewed faith and determination, becoming pure water that flows together into a mighty ocean of love, unity, and hope. Together, as one family centered on True Parents, we can move the world and bring Heavenly Parent’s dream to life on earth.
Rev. Demian Dunkley
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(from FFWPU Int’l HQ)
True Parents' New Year Motto and Message:
New Year Motto
"In the 13th year of Cheon Il Guk, when we attend the Creator Heavenly Parent substantially, let us, the blessed families around the world, become true sons and daughters of Cheon Il Guk who fulfill our responsibility as the chosen people in unity with True Parents!"
Message
This is the New Year's motto that, starting from today with the Year of the blue Snake, will be passed down for generations in Cheon Il Guk.
All blessed families throughout the world and everyone gathered here are happy!
As we enter the Year of the blue Snake, we know the pain from 120 years ago [Note: Mother is referring to 1905, in which the treaty of Eulsa made Korea a protectorate of Japan; 1905 was also a year of the blue snake]. In the Bible, a serpent symbolized Satan. However, the snake is also called a wise animal. After 6,000 years of Heaven's providence and of human history, all blessed families of the Unification movement have received, through True Parents, Heaven's magnificent grace of Cheon Il Guk where we can attend Heavenly Parent in substantial ways on earth. We must be grateful. As blessed families, we must fulfill our responsibility.
Therefore, we must teach, beginning with this nation's citizens and politicians, that they are the chosen people. In true democracy, where we attend Heavenly Parent and all nations become sibling nations in front of Heavenly Parent as one family of humankind, can there be fighting or not? Until now, due to the Fall there have been wars, hostility, and religious conflict; history has not seen a single day of peace.
Yet we are entering the 13th year since the beginning of a new history through the victorious True Parents. True Parents' responsibility is to fulfill Heavenly Parent's dream on earth, the ideal of creation and kingdom of heaven on earth. True Parents have given birth to many blessed families worldwide. Through their 2nd and 3rd generations—Pure Water youth spreading throughout the world, like drops of water joining to form rivers that flow to the sea—our future will be gloriously bright. I pray this day may become one of grace, gratitude and happiness that Heavenly Parent can joyfully receive through your sincere devotions (jeongseong) and practice.