Heavenly Parents' Day
1/1/1968 (lunar)
2010 God's Day Celebration
Location: Cheon Jung Gung, South Korea
God's Day 2010 Celebration in Cheon Jeong Gung, Korea
Explanation
2010 God's Day CelebrationLocation: Cheon Jung Gung, South Korea
2010 God's Day Celebration
Location: Cheon Jung Gung, South Korea
God's Day 2010 Celebration in Cheon Jeong Gung, Korea
Because of the fall, human beings could not realize God’s three blessings. Humankind also could not realize the perfection and ideal of the individual, couple, parents, children, and ownership; True Parents restored all this. On the foundation of Parents Day, Children’s Day, and the Day of All Things, True Parents established God’s Day on January 1, 1968. If Adam and Eve had achieved perfection, they would have received God’s Blessing. That day would have been a joyful day for God; it would have been God’s Day. God had been longing for His own sons and daughters, and God’s Day became a day of exultation, because He could rejoice at having found His son and daughter.
If they had achieved the position of perfected true parents, Adam and Eve would have established Parents Day. That day would also have been the first Children’s Day. Perfected Adam and Eve would have been true owners, as well, and could have proclaimed the Day of All Things. In this sense, their Blessing day would have been a combination of God’s Day, Parents’ Day, Children’s Day, and the Day of All Things. In restoration, however, the four days had to be established one by one, ending with God’s Day.
Each country has its own holidays. For example, in the West many days such as Father’s Day and Mother’s Day are celebrated. Yet no one had ever proclaimed or celebrated a day for God. Religious leaders have made many proclamations, but none mentioned this obvious omission, which should be the most important holiday—God’s Day.
(Excerpt from The Tradition, Book One, pg. 99)
God’s Day was the last of the Unification Church’s original four Holy Days to be established after Parents Day (3.1.60 lunar), Children’s Day (10.1.60 lunar) and Day of All Things (5.1.63 lunar). It also was the only one of the original four Holy Days celebrated according to the Gregorian (solar) calendar, beginning January 1, 1968. True Father observed that if humankind’s original parents had not fallen and had achieved perfection, they would have received God’s blessing and that day would have been God’s Day. As it was, True Parents had to restore and install each of the original Holy Days, representative of God’s three blessings, over seven years following their Holy Wedding in 1960. In 1996, True Father added the word “True” to God’s Day and the other original Holy Days. In 2010, True Father established the “Heavenly Calendar,” which displaced the Gregorian calendar in Unificationist observances and corresponded in most respects with the lunar calendar. As a result, from 2011, True God’s Day was no longer observed on January 1 but on the first day of the first month of the Heavenly Calendar (February 3 of that year). On January 7, 2013, True Mother announced that Unificationists should address God as “Heavenly Parent.” Thereafter, True God’s Day became “True Heavenly Parent Day.”