평화의 어머니 3 - 5. 성혼, 지상에 어린양 혼인잔치가 열리고

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평화의 어머니
3장 '어린양 혼인잔치'는 세계를 구원하는 등불

5. 성혼, 지상에 어린양 혼인잔치가 열리고

1 2천 년 전 예수님은 지상에 오셨습니다. 예수님은 신부를 찾아 참다운 부모의 인연을 세워야 했습니다. 그러나 그 뜻을 이루지 못하고 십자가에 못 박혀 돌아가셨습니다. 그 심정이 얼마나 비참하겠습니까. 예수님이 재림하실 때 가장 먼저 하실 일은 신부를 찾는 것입니다. 참부모가 없이는 천주(天宙)의 한을 풀 수 없고, 하나님을 위한 승리의 터를 닦을 수도 없습니다. 나의 성혼은 하나님이 승리하신 날이며, 잃어버린 영광을 되찾은 날이었습니다. 나아가 인류가 참어머니와 함께 살아가기 시작한 기쁨의 날이었습니다.

2 문 총재는 16세 때 묘두산에서 예수님으로부터 사명을 받았습니다. 그러나 그 사명에는 혹독한 시련이 주어졌습니다. 일본에서 공부할 때는 말할 것도 없고, 광복 후 북한에서 새말씀을 전파할 때 인간으로서 견디기 힘든 온갖 고초를 다겪었습니다. 공산당의 악랄한 탄압으로 감옥에 갇혀 죽음의 문턱에서 헤매야 했습니다. 흥남감옥에서 생사의 기로에 놓여 있었을 때 유엔군에 의해 극적으로 구출되어 하늘이 주신 소명을 다시 시작할 수 있었습니다. 부산을 거쳐 서울에 어렵사리 정착했지만 시련은 끊이지 않았고, 또 억울한 누명을 쓰고 옥에 갇혔습니다. 그 처절한 시련은 하나님이 준비한 독생녀를 만나 어린양 혼인잔치를 맞기 위한 탕감의 노정이었습니다.

3 통일교회 식구들이 역시 문 총재 못지않게 쓰라린 시련을 겪었습니다. 그러나 1960년을 맞이하면서 말할 수 없는 소망에 부풀었습니다. 1960년은 문 총재가 태어난지 40년이 되는 해이면서 하나님의 첫 아들딸인 독생자와 독생녀의 성혼이 이루어진 축복의 해였습니다. 봄이 무르익은 3월 27일, 음력으로 3월 1일 새벽 4시에 문 총재와 나의 역사적인 가약식(佳約式)이 열렸습니다.

4 청파동 교회가 비좁아서 남여 각각 40여 명을 초대했는데, 하늘신부를 보려는 식구들이 몰려들어 그렇지 않아도 좁은 교회가 사람들로 가득 찼습니다. 가약식은 1차와 2차로 나누어 거행되었으며 문 총재의 축도로 성스럽게 끝났습니다. 나와 문 총재의 가약식은 깊은 의미가 있습니다. 인간의 6천 년 역사는 참부모를 맞기 위한 애달픈 노정이었습니다. 참부모를 찾지 못한 것이 그때까지 인류 모두의 슬픔이었지만, 나의 가약식은 그 슬픔을 끝내는 축복의 날이었습니다.

5 가약식을 올리고 보름 후인 1960년 4월 11일, 음력 3월 16일 아침 10시에 성혼식을 올렸습니다. 전국 교회에서 선발된 700여 명이 청파동 교회에 모여 성대하고 뜻깊은 성혼식을 거행했습니다. 가약식 때보다 더 많은 식구들이 참석해 교회는 발 디딜 곳조차 없이 사람들로 넘쳐났고, 교회 안으로 들어오지 못한 식구들이 골목을 가득 메웠습니다.

6 식장은 교회 성전에 조촐하게 꾸며졌습니다. 벽과 바닥을 흰 천으로 덮고 현관에서 왼쪽에 단상을 만들었습니다. 흰 치마저고리에 긴 면사포를 쓴 나는 신랑의 팔짱을 끼고 성가 〈사랑의 봄동산>에 맞춰 2층 계단에서 내려왔습니다. 역사에 길이 기억될 성혼식은 하객 식구들의 뜨거운 환영을 받으며 거행되었습니다.

7 성혼식은 그 의의와 가치로 보아 만민이 찬양과 영광, 송영을 올려야 할 대경사였으나 오히려 가슴 아픈 일이 더 많았습니다. 문 총재는 성혼식 전날까지도 기성교단의 고발로 인해 내무부에서 조사를 받았습니다. 밤 11시까지 굴욕적인 조사를 받고 겨우 청파동에 돌아왔습니다. 그럼에도 문 총재와 나는 지금까지의 아픔을 말끔히 잊고 담담한 마음으로 어린양 혼인잔치를 치렀습니다.

8 첫 번째 식은 서양식으로 치르고, 두 번째 식은 한국 전통의 사모관대와 족두리에 활옷 차림으로 올렸습니다. 성혼식은 내가 우주의 어머니이자 평화의 어머니로 인류 앞에 새롭게 등극하는 날이었습니다. 하나님이 소망하시는, 독생자와 독생녀가 성혼하는 어린양 혼인잔치는 아담과 하와가 이루지 못한 우주적 참부부, 참부모의 이상을 실현하는 자리였습니다.

9 식이 끝난 뒤 나와 문 총재는 부부가 되어 처음으로 한 상에서 밥을 먹었습니다. 평범한 부부라면 당연한 것으로 즐기는 신혼여행은 물론 신혼의 단꿈조차 엄두를 낼 수 없었습니다. 오로지 하나님과 교회만을 생각해야 했습니다. 한복으로 갈아입은 우리 부부는 식구들과 어울려 노래를 부르고 춤을 추며 하나님께 영광을 돌려드리는 기쁨의 시간을 보냈습니다. 신부가 노래를 불러야 한다는 식구들의 요청에 나는 <봄이 오면>을 불렀습니다.
"봄이 오면 산에 들에 진달래 피네. 진달래 피는 곳에 내 마음도 피어······."

10 봄은 새로움을 뜻합니다. 나는 소망의 계절인 봄을 좋아합니다. 이제까지의 차가운 겨울에서 벗어나 생명이 약동하고 꿈을 일깨울 수 있기를 바라기 때문입니다. 통일가의 역사도 이제 봄을 맞아 새롭게 출발해야 한다고 생각했습니다. 그날 지상에 참부모 가정이 출현하면서 하나님의 섭리사는 새로운 문을 활짝 열었습니다. 생사의 살얼음판을 지나오는 아슬아슬한 나날들을 거쳐 치러진 성혼식은 하나님이 가장 기뻐하시는 날이 되었습니다.

11 성경 <요한계시록>에는 마지막 날에 주님이 다시 오시면 어린양 혼인잔치를 하신다는 구절이 있습니다. 그 잔치가 바로 일찌기 잃어버린 독생자 독생녀를 신랑신부를 맺어 주어 참부모로 세우시는 성스러운 축복 예식입니다. 나는 남편과 부부 인연을 맺으면서 하나님 앞에 굳게 결심했습니다.

12 "하나님께서 이렇게 힘들게 걸어오신 탕감 복귀 섭리 역사를 내 당대에서 청산하겠습니다. 무엇보다 하나님의 이름으로 전개되는 종교적 분열은 하나님이 가장 가슴 아파하는 일입니다. 기필코 매듭짓겠습니다."

平和の母
第三章 「小羊の婚宴」は世界を救う灯火
5. 聖婚、地上で小羊の婚宴が開かれる

二千年前、イエス様は地上に来られました。イエス様は新婦を探して、真の父母とならなければなりませんでした。しかし、そのみ旨を果たすことができないまま、十字架にかかって亡くなってしまったのです。どれほど惨めな心情を味わわれたことでしょうか。イエス様が再臨してまず初めになさることは、新婦を探すことです。真の父母なくして天宙に満ちた恨を解くことはできず、神様のための勝利の基盤を築くこともできません。

私が聖婚した日、それは神様が勝利された日であり、失われた栄光が取り戻された日です。そして、人類が真の母と共に生きることができるようになった、喜びの日です。

文総裁は数えで十六蔵の時、平安北道の定州にある猫頭山で、イエス様から使命をお受けになりました。しかし、その使命を果たすに当たっては、過酷な試練が与えられました。日本留学時代はもちろん、解放後、北で新しいみ言を伝える時も、人間として耐え難いあらゆる苦難を経験されたのです。共産党の悪辣な弾圧によって監獄に入れられ、生死の境をさまよわなければなりませんでした。

しかし、興南の徳里特別労務者収容所（興南監獄）で生死の岐路に立たされていた時、国連軍によって劇的に救出され、天が下さった使命に向かって再び出発することができたのです。

文総裁はその後、釜山を経て、ソウルに定着されました。しかし、試練は休むことなく訪れ、また濡れ衣を着せられて投獄されました。その凄絶な歩みは、神様が準備した独り娘に出会い、「小半の婚宴」の日を迎えるまでの蕩減路程でした。

統一教会の信徒たちもまた、つらい試練を経験しました。しかしー九六○年を迎え、名状し難い喜びと希望に彼らの胸は躍っていました。それは、文総裁が生まれて四十年になる年であり、神様の最初の息子、娘である独り子と独り娘の聖婚が成される祝福の年でした。

春たけなわの一九六〇年三月二十七日、陰曆では三月一日の午前四時、文総裁と私の歴史的な佳約式(約婚式)が行われました。招待されたのは男女四十数人ずつでしたが、天の新婦を一目見ようと信徒が押しかけ、ただでさえ手狭な青坡洞教会が人であふれ返りました。佳約式は一部と二部に分けて挙行され、文総裁の祝祷によって、神聖な雰囲気の中、幕を閉じました。

私と文総裁の佳約式には、深い意味があります。聖書で言う人間の六千年の歴史は、真の父母を迎えるための悲痛なる路程でした。真の父母と出会えなかったことが、それまで全人類にとっての悲しみでしたが、この佳約式によって、その悲しみが終わったのです。まさに、祝福の日でした。

聖婚式は、佳約式から半月後の四月十一日、陰歴三月十六日の午前十時から行われました。全国の教会から選ばれた約七百人の信徒が青坡洞教会に集まる中、意義深い聖婚式が盛大に挙行されたのです。佳約式の時よりもさらに大勢の信徒が集まったため、教会は足の踏み場もないほどでした。周りの路地も、教会内に入れない人々で埋め尽くされました。

式場は、教会の礼拝堂をきれいに飾りつけて準備されました。壁と床を白い布で覆い、玄関から入って左手に壇を作りました。白いチマチョゴリを着て長いべールをかぶった私は、新郎である文総裁と腕を組み、聖歌「宴のとき」に合わせて二階から降りていきました。こうして歴史に永遠に残る聖婚式が、祝賀客の熱い歓迎の中、挙行されたのです。

聖婚式は、その意義と価値から見て、万民が称え、栄光と賛美を捧げるべき大きな慶事でしたが、その背後には、むしろ胸痛い出来事のほうが多くありました。キリスト教会からの告発によって、文総裁は聖婚式の前日も、夜の十一時まで内務部で屈辱的な取り調べを受けられました。しかし、文総裁と私はそれまでの痛みをきれいさっぱりと忘れ、平安な心で「小羊の婚宴」に臨んだのです。

最初の式は西洋式で行い、続いて韓国の伝統的な紗帽(官服を着るときにかぶる黒い紗で作った官吏の帽子)と冠帯、チョクトゥリ (女性が礼服を着るときにかぶる冠)に婚礼服姿で式を行いました。聖婚式は、私が宇宙の母、平和の母として人類の前に新たに登極する日でした。神様の願ってこられた、独り子と独り娘が聖婚する「小羊の婚宴」は、アダムとエバが成し遂げられなかった宇宙的な真の夫婦、真の父母の理想を実現する場でした。

式が終わり、私と文総裁は晴れて夫婦となって、初めて一つの食膳で食事をしました。普通の夫婦であれば当然のように楽しむ新婚旅行はもちろん、新婚生活における甘い夢すら、思い描くことはできませんでした。ただ、神様と教会のことだけを思ったのです。

韓服に着替えた私たち夫婦は、信徒と共に歌を歌い、踊りを踊って、神様に栄光をお返しする喜びの時間を過ごしました。歌を歌ってほしい、という信徒たちのリクエストを受け、私は「春が来れば」を歌いました。
「春が来れば、山に野原にツツジが咲くよ。ツツジの咲くところ、私の心も花咲いて……」

春は新しい出発を意味します。私は、希望の季節である春が好きです。寒い冬を抜け出し、眠りから覚めた生命が躍動して、夢を描いていくことを願うからです。私は、統一家の歴史もいよいよ春を迎え、新たに出発しなければならないと考えました。

その日、地上に真の父母の家庭が現れることで、神様の摂理は新たな扉を大きく開きました。薄氷を踏むような日々を越えて行われた聖婚式。その日は、神様が最も喜ぶ一日となりました。

ヨハネの黙示録に、終わりの日に主が再び来られたら、「小羊の婚宴」をなさるという一節があります。その宴こそまさに、失われた独り子、独り娘を新郎新婦として結び、真の父母として立ててくださる神聖な祝福儀式です。私は文総裁と夫婦の契りを結びながら、神様の前に固く決意しました。

「神様が苦労して歩んでこられた蕩減復帰摂理の歴史を、私の代で清算します。何より、神様の名のもとに起こっている宗教的な分裂は、神様が最も胸を痛められることです。それを必ずや、解決してみせます」

MOTHER of PEACE
CHAPTER 3. THE MARRIAGE SUPPER OF THE LAMB
5. Our Holy Wedding Ceremony

Jesus was born to humankind 2,000 years ago. God intended that Jesus find his bride and that they would stand in the position of Adam and Eve, who were lost at the very beginning of human history. Together, Jesus and his bride were to have grown to attain the position of True Parents, providing living examples of a true husband and wife, parents, and family.

However, God's hope for Jesus and Israel was not realized. The Lord went a secondary course, dying for us on the cross. We cannot imagine how devastated he must have been! When Jesus returns, his priority is to find the bride, with whom he will create a true family, society, nation and world. With the True Parents, the sorrows of heaven and earth can be alleviated, and the victorious foundation for God's ideal world can be laid.

In this providence, the prophesied marriage supper of the Lamb, the day of our Holy Wedding, was the turning point, the day when God won His victory and recovered His lost glory.

Furthermore, this was a day of joy for humankind, as it inaugurated a new history in which all can live together not only with their True Father but also with their True Mother.

At the age of 15, Sun Myung Moon received his mission from Jesus Christ on Mount Myodu. It was a mission that would bring him severe hardship. It led him to study in Japan and to teach God's word in North Korea after Korea's independence, where he would face life-threatening hardships and unspeakable suffering.

Communist Party officials and police cruelly tortured him to the brink of death. Tossed out as a lifeless body, he revived and continued his mission, only to be arrested once again and sent to a forced labor camp near the city of Hungnam. It was only the arrival of UN troops that saved him from execution there.

With two of his followers, he headed south to begin his ministry again. Amid the clash of communist soldiers and UN troops, they were among the last to cross the frozen Imjin River into South Korea, and from there they walked hundreds of kilometers to the southern part of the peninsula.

After planting his church in Busan he settled in Seoul. Yet his trials continued and once again he was imprisoned, this time by the South Korean government. This course of hardships, during which time he relentlessly focused on teaching many new members about God and the mission of the Messiah, was the course he had to pass through to meet the only begotten Daughter prepared by God, and to hold the marriage supper of the Lamb.

Members of the early Unification Church endured bitter ordeals together with Father Moon. As the year 1960 approached, they were filled with indescribable hope. Father Moon was turning 40, and he had prophesied that this would be the year of the Holy Wedding of God's first Son and Daughter, the only begotten Son and only begotten Daughter.

And that promise was fulfilled. At the Cheongpa-dong church, at 4:00 in the morning on March 27, 1960, the first day of the third lunar month, when spring was in full bloom, Father Moon and I held our historic engagement ceremony.

We had invited 40 men and 40 women to witness the ceremony, but members wishing to see us had come in great numbers, and the small church was packed to overflowing. The engagement ceremony, held in two parts, was conducted in a holy atmosphere.

It concluded with Father Moon's benediction, reporting the profound meaning of the ceremony to heaven and earth. The 6,000-year history of humankind, he prayed, was the anguished course necessary to receive the True Parents. That Jesus could not become the True Parent was the sorrow of all people, but the day of our engagement ceremony was the blessed day that finally relieved that sorrow.

Fifteen days after the engagement ceremony, at 10:00 a.m. on April 11, 1960, the 16th day of the third month by the lunar calendar, we conducted the Holy Wedding. Seven hundred or so members chosen from our churches across Korea gathered at Cheongpa-dong Church to attend this splendid event, long awaited by our Heavenly Parent.

Because even more members flocked to attend the Holy Wedding than the engagement ceremony, the church was overflowing, and those who could not enter the building filled the alleyway beside it. The atmosphere was nonetheless solemn and reverent.

The small chapel of the church was decorated beautifully and meaningfully for the occasion. The walls and floor were covered with white cloth, and a platform was set up to the left of the door. Dressed in a long, white skirt and top, with a long veil covering my head, I walked down the stairs from the second floor, arm in arm with the bridegroom, as members sang a holy song, 'Song of the Banquet.”

All in attendance warmly welcomed us, and the Holy Wedding ceremony thus commenced. The first ceremony of the Holy Wedding was held in Western-style clothing, and the second ceremony was held in traditional Korean-style clothing, complete with robes and headdresses.

The significance and value of this joyful occasion should have been praised, glorified and honored by all nations and peoples. Yet it was marred by a distressing incident. The day before the ceremony, the Ministry of Home Affairs, responding to a Christian group's accusations, arrested and interrogated Father Moon.

He was able to return to his quarters in the church only after being subjected to humiliating questions until 11:00 p.m. Yet under the grace of God and the Holy Spirit, Father Moon and I, and the entire congregation, put aside this painful experience as if it had never happened and conducted the marriage supper of the Lamb with serene hearts.

God's predestined will was that His only begotten Son and Daughter would become one flesh through the marriage supper of the Lamb and that, through them, the dwelling place of God would be with men and women.

True men and women are the rightful rulers of creation, the entire universe, heaven and earth. The Holy Wedding finally realized this ideal, which Adam and Eve had failed to achieve. Thus, these ceremonies marked my formal enthronement as the Mother of the universe and Mother of peace.

After the ceremony, Father Moon and I, as husband and wife, ate at the same table for the first time. It goes without saying that newlyweds expect to go on a honeymoon and dream of their cozy life together, but it was not so with us. Our thoughts were fixed only upon God and the church. Nonetheless, I treasured every glance we shared and felt a love infinitely profound, a holy love that we wished to bequeath to all humankind.

We then changed into bright Korean traditional wedding outfits, and my husband and I sang and danced to return glory to God, enjoying a merry time together with the members. When the members called for the bride to sing, I sang a song called “When the Spring Comes.”

When the spring comes, azaleas bloom in the mountains and meadows. Where the azaleas bloom, so does my heart

Spring signifies freshness and newness. I love spring, as it is the season of hope. Spring brings with it the expectation that, as we leave the cold winter behind, our days will be vibrant with life. It awakens our dreams.

As I sang, I was thinking that the history of the Unification Church should begin anew with this coming of spring. The appearance of the family of the True Parents on earth that day flung open a new door in the history of God's dispensation. The day of the Holy Wedding Ceremony, conducted after we had lived through perilous years, was the day of God's greatest delight.

In the New Testament's Book of Revelation, it is written that the marriage supper of the Lamb will take place when the Lord comes again at the end of times.

That prophecy was fulfilled by the Holy Wedding, by which the only begotten Son and only begotten Daughter, lost at the beginning of human history, were brought together as bridegroom and bride and anointed as the True Parents. As we were joined as husband and wife, I made a firm resolution in front of God:

During my lifetime, my beloved husband and I will bring to a conclusion the history of the providence of restoration through indemnity, during which God has laboriously toiled. I know that what hurts God's heart more than anything else are the religious conflicts that take place in His name. Without fail, we will end them.