Please Let Our New Determination Become The Foundation Of Your Glory

When we think that so many complications
remain for heaven
because of our being descendants of sin,
who have not been able
to remove the traces of death,
we do not qualify to give you assurances,
suggestions or pledges
as we greet the New Year once again.

But because there remains peak
after peak of the grief of restoration
so that we must pledge and go,
and pledge and go again,
we feel that it will not do
unless we make a new pledge from daybreak
before we see the sunlight of the new morning
of brightness once again today.

Since we pledge
that we will fulfill the mission of the pioneer,
and the responsibility of men of vision,
and the responsibility of people
in the vanguard while representing this people
and all humankind with new hearts
and new minds in this new year,
please allow this pledge
we have made to move heaven.

Please let us become new selves
who are able to have the authority of love
with the power of heaven,
each time we face the forces of darkness.
And by establishing the light of this pledge today,
please allow all of the 365 days of one year
become like this day today.

Please let these new decisions
and new determinations of this year
become the foundation of your glory,
and please let us become
the helms of the sailboats
crossing the rivers of suffering
in this world of death.

Then as for reaching that blessed land,
the garden of hope you desire,
we earnestly hope
that you will not let us suffer
any losses or feel any difficulties.

Since at daybreak, too,
there are family members
who are facing this place
while embracing your Will
and calling your name,
please embrace them.

Please let the new light of brightness
dwell with those people
who are greeting the New Year
with hearts filled with tears.
We earnestly hope and desire
that you will allow your day to come
in which light shines forth
and the foundation of your glory
is raised up high.

Please pardon
the sins of the past of this people
through the Unification Movement.
Considering this people,
please forgive the sins
of all the people of the world.
Considering the people of the world,
please pardon the sins
of all the sad spirits in heaven and earth.
And please forgive the sins
of our ancestors who have come and gone
from the past until now.

Please watch and protect us
until we and this people
reveal your day of glory
as the light of life
in all the nations of the world.

We earnestly hope and desire, Father,
that you will let the day of victory
which remains to come to us quickly,
and the dangerous conditions of the battle
which remains to disappear
through the light of life.

Hoping that your glory will fill the cosmos
and it will be together with the blessed couples,
this people and all of humankind,
we have prayed in the holy name
of the True Parents. Amen.