The faith that I belong to uses the “Heavenly Calendar”, which mirrors the lunar calendar. Today is the fourth day of the fourth month of the seventeenth year.
The U.S. headquarters did not produce a calendar for 2026, but the Korean church did—or so I discovered yesterday, and a PDF was available to download for donation. I snatched one and contacted FedEx Office about printing it up. One emailed file and follow-up phone call later and the print job was set for overnight. I paid for and retrieved the thing this morning.
Hyung Jin Moon is artist behind the painting. (Watercolor?) Here is a partial translation, meaning what was coherent, from the Korean text using Samsung AI features on Galaxy S26 Ultra (which also produced the Featured Image). I added the paragraph breaks:
The image of True Father hanging in the work is a torture method called ‘airplane torture’, which is very similar to Jesus’ cross journey.
When Jesus was crucified after extreme torture, he had to support his entire body weight with nailed hands, feet, and small wooden scaffolding. In the process, a person’s shoulder falls out, their lungs rupture, and the blood fills the lungs, causing them to drown themselves in their own blood, which is death on the cross.
The torture of the cross and the process of death are almost the same as the airplane torture that my father endured in Hungnam Prison. This work allows us to contemplate the path of blood and tears of revival that the toxic mass of heaven has sacrificed his life to save our souls.
The torture and imprisonment occurred during the late 1940s in Communist North Korea. Two years and eight months into a five-year prison sentence for preaching about Jesus and God’s providence for salvation, his father (Sun Myung Moon) was freed by U.N. forces led by Douglas MacArthur early into the Korean War (on Oct. 14, 1950).
Photo vitals: f/1.4, ISO 320, 1/120 sec, 23mm (film equivalent); 7:24 p.m.