Grace for the Blessing The Holy Nectar Ceremony
God created man and woman to become true husbands and wives and true parents, to create ideal families through unselfish love. As we know from teachings of all religions, however, something went wrong in the beginning. As a result, the first parents created a dysfunctional family, in which disunity between parents and children, and intense sibling rivalry, lead to murder. Such a family was clearly separated from God’s love and life. We all are descended from the impure parents of that family.
In the Holy Nectar Ceremony, we make the spiritual transition from the lineage of false parents to that of the True Parents. Through this ceremony, we each are restored conditionally to the position of “original man” and “original woman,” like a true Adam and Eve.
In the ceremony, the officiator gives the Holy Nectar to the woman. She bows to him and drinks half of it. She then gives the Holy Nectar to her husband who bows to her and drinks the remainder. He bows and gives the empty cup to his wife who bows and returns it to the officiator.
The love of God and the True Parents is represented in the Holy Nectar. Taking the Holy Nectar represents a renunciation of selfish love, and an eternal commitment to God, to one’s spouse, and to one’s descendants.