Please Allow Us To Become Aware Of The Mistakes Of The Past

Oh Father who created the universe!
Please allow us
to realize deeply at this time
how earnestly you hoped
for the day when you would be able
to share your glory with all of creation.

You created Adam and Eve,
raised them in your embrace,
and by having them
begin a life of eternal love you sought
to establish the welfare of humankind.

And we realize once again
that you are a father
who hoped to find joy
through Adam and Eve
as they grew.

Please let us
realize once again at this time
that you, who had
such an earnest hope,
lost Adam and Eve
and had to face a day of sorrow.

Father!
On this earth
there are many nations
and many peoples.

They each have had
different histories,
and their living conditions
and the things they hope for
are different.

When we consider again
that this is contrary to your
originally determined will,

we come to understand
that the difference in histories
is your grief,
and the difference in conditions
is your grief,
and the difference in hopes
is also your grief.

When we think of these things,
Father,
we know that they are
the retribution of the fall.

It will not do
unless history comes from you,
and it will not do
unless the present comes from you,
and it will not do
unless the future forms
a relationship with your idea,

but today humankind
is facing the tragic reality
of not having one relationship,
or one set of conditions for life
or one ideological foundation.

Please allow us
to hear once again in our minds
the ghastly screams and moans
of all humanity who are living
in a chaotic place like this,
in this place
which has been turned upside down,
where each person's position
contradicts the other's.

Please allow us
to think together with your heart,
Father,
to feel your heart,
and to become aware
of the mistakes of the past.

Father!
You need to have sons and daughters
weeping tears of sincere repentance
and pleading for you
to allow humankind
to have blessed hope.

But the more we feel that
we have not done that,
the more unable we are
to raise our heads before you.

Today, there are many religions
and religious organizations
going forward towards one goal,
but we know
that there are not many
bowing down before you humbly
and weeping about the sorrowful path
that you must go
and about the sorrow
of the ghastly judgment
humankind must receive.

The pitiful people
who have gathered here today
have continuously gone
a path of anguish;

embracing the command you gave,
they have continued fighting
until today.
Please personally guide
their footsteps,
and since they are
your sons and daughters
who have remained
in this place today,
please remember them.

We have humbly prayed all these things
in the name of the Lord. Amen.