page_title: Blessing ceremony of the Unification Church
hierarchical_section_title: Blessing ceremony of the Unification Church
caption_attribution_description: English: Blessing Ceremony TP
context_page_description: The Holy Marriage Blessing Ceremony is a large-scale wedding or marriage rededication ceremony sponsored by the Unification Church. It is given to married or engaged couples. Through it, members of the Unification Church believe that the couple is removed from the lineage of sinful humanity and engrafted into God's sinless lineage. As a result, the couple's marital relationship—and any children born after the Blessing—exist free from the consequences of original sin.
  For Unificationists, these interracial, interreligious and international mass marriage ceremonies symbolize the family as the hope for peace. The Blessing ceremony has become the most famous ritual of the Unification Church. The people who receive the Blessing are called "Blessed Central Families" who are conducive to the establishment of Cheon Il Guk
context_section_description: The Holy Marriage Blessing Ceremony is a large-scale wedding or marriage rededication ceremony sponsored by the Unification Church. It is given to married or engaged couples. Through it, members of the Unification Church believe that the couple is removed from the lineage of sinful humanity and engrafted into God's sinless lineage.   As a result, the couple's marital relationship—and any children born after the Blessing—exist free from the consequences of original sin. (Children born into Blessed Central Families are known as Blessed Children or second generation, third generation, etc.)
  For Unificationists, these interracial, interreligious and international mass marriage ceremonies symbolize the family as the hope for peace.  The Blessing ceremony has become the most famous ritual of the Unification Church. The people who receive the Blessing are called "Blessed Central Families" who are conducive to the establishment of Cheon Il Guk (the Kingdom of Heaven.)
caption: Rev and Mrs Moon preside over a mass blessing ceremony
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