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Vassula Rydén was born in Egypt on January 18, 1942 into a Greek Orthodox family. She claims to have had two prophecy dreams in her childhood and visions of Jesus ever since 1985. She has composed the messages she claims to have received in a book called True Life In God. There are currently over 107 Notebooks compiled in 12 Volumes of the "True Life in God" series, which have been translated by volunteers into 42 different languages. Since 1989 Vassula has spoken more than 800 times in over 63 countries and more than 90 times in the United States. She receives no royalties, commissions or remuneration of any kind for her travels or for these publications.

Biography

Vassula Ryden, the daughter of Greek parents established in Egypt, was born on January 18, 1942 in Heliopolis on the outskirts of Cairo. She started school in Egypt, and then at the age of 15, she emigrated to Europe.

Starting at a very young age, she experienced terrifying nightmares, which she attributed to Satan. At the age of 10-12, she had mystic experiences, including a spiritual marriage with Jesus. During her teenage years, she says to have seen, on several occasions, the souls of dead people surrounding her. Afterwards, she became indifferent to religious matters.

In November of 1966, she married a Lutheran man in the city of Lausanne, Switzerland, at a Greek Orthodox Church. She later got divorced in Sweden in November of 1980. In June of 1981, she married her current husband, Per Ryden, a Swedish Lutheran, at the registry office. In 1990, she regularized her union in the Greek Orthodox Church and celebrated her religious marriage in Lausanne, on October 31, 1991. She has two sons, born in 1971 and 1976.

She declares herself Greek Orthodox. A polyglot, her everyday language is English.

Genesis of the "True Life in God" messages

Towards the end of November in 1985, while living in Bangladesh, Vassula claims that an invisible being, who identified itself as her “guardian angel Daniel”, contacted her. The entity manifested itself by moving Vassula’s hand without her being able to control it, forming words and drawings. By these means, Vassula started to receive "messages" in English, usually about 4 to 6 hours of guided "dictation" per day.

Three months later, she experienced the brief intervention of another being, who identified himself as “God the Father”. The “guardian angel Daniel” then submitted her to a purification week, which was followed by the substitution of the “guardian angel Daniel” by an entity who identified itself as “Jesus”. This entity also uses the guided dictation of the messages to communicate, calling the messages the “True Life in God”. Other personalities also sporadically intervene: the Virgin Mary, Michael the Archangel, St Padre Pio, the Devil, etc.

The content of the messages are religious, a sort of revival of biblical texts and teachings of the Catholic and Orthodox Churches. The main themes are Christian unity, adherence to the Pope, the closeness of a time of “purification” and the importance of making the messages known in order to end of the division among Christians and to a certain extent unite all religions.

To this day, the writings (several thousands of pages) have been translated and published in 40 languages. Vassula Ryden maintains that it is not a channeling / spiritism phenomena such as automatic writing, and that the author of the messages is really Jesus Christ. Exorcist Father Christian Curty OFM, Marseille, describes Vassula's reception as "hieratic" (e.g. sacred) writings .

In 1995, the Roman Catholic Church gave a negative opinion on the writings through the publication of a notification by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, in which "several negative elements and errors are pointed out". It concludes by requesting the faithful "not to regard Mrs. Ryden's writings and speeches of divine or supernatural origin, but rather as the result of her private meditations".

After a request was made by Vassula in 2000 to the aforementioned congregation (the CDF), the then Cardinal Ratzinger invited Vassula, in 2002, to answer five questions about her messages and its relation to the Holy Bible and Sacred Tradition. Vassula sent her replies to the Congregation later that same year. At the ending of this dialogue, the former president of the CDF, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger - Now Pope Benedict XVI asked Vassula to publish the full correspondence between herself and the CDF in the published TLIG books. Later still, the Cardinal wrote a letter, dated 10 July 2004, to five episcopal conferences who had been negative about Vassula and her writings indicating that she had given "useful clarifications regarding her marital situation, as well as some difficulties which in the aforesaid Notification were suggested towards her writings and her participation in the sacraments" .

The congregation requests that Catholics should follow the directions of the local bishop regarding participation in the prayer groups organized by Mrs. Ryden. Some observers of the reported visions of Jesus and Mary, Cardinal Ratzinger’s letter of July 2004 make it artificially appear that this document offers Vassula Ryden a rare softening of tone on the part of the Holy See, and thus strengthens her position among her followers. Because of these attempts to artificially cast doubt after the new study and letter, it was confirmed by the letter of the congragation for the Doctrine of the Faith of 25 january 2007 to all the Presidents of the Episcopal Conferences regarding the case of Mrs Vassula Ryden, in a letter that totally confirms the doctrinal judgement of the 1995 Notification and "advises against the participation of the faithful in the True Life in God prayer groups". Regarding the reading of the writings, it should be limited to persons who are able to understand that they are not divine revelation and who – having a solid Catholic basis – can remain critical and attentive to the confusing or erroneous elements contained in the writings. They are not private relevations, and not of Divine origin.

Prophecies

In the message of 11. September 1991 was written: "the earth will shiver and shake - and every evil built into Towers will collapse into a heap of rubble and be buried in the dust of sin! above, the Heavens will shake and the foundations of the earth will rock! "

In the message of 10. January 1990 was written, that the Unity of Christians will come over night soon: "and Unity shall come upon you like Dawn and as sudden as the fall of communism; it shall come from God and your nations shall name it: the Great Miracle, the Blessed Day in your history"

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  • « Le Phénomène Vassula – Etude critique », Marie-France James, Nouvelles Editions Latines, Paris, 1992.
  • « Mon Ange Daniel – Les débuts de La Vraie Vie en Dieu » , Vassula Ryden, Editions du Parvis, Hauteville (Suisse), 2001.
  • « Quand Dieu Fait Signe » , René Laurentin, F.X. de Guibert, Paris, 1993

www.tlig.org

  1. tlig.org: " (...) the earth will shiver and shake - and every evil built into Towers 2 will collapse into a heap of rubble and be buried in the dust of sin! above, the Heavens will shake and the foundations of the earth will rock! (...) "
  2. tlig.org: "(...) and Unity shall come upon you like Dawn and as sudden as the fall of communism; it shall come from God and your nations shall name it: the Great Miracle, the Blessed Day in your history (...)"

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