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Article published in The Voice of Delhi, a magazine of the Catholic Church in India, on July 2005,
right after the True Life in God pilgrimage.
Vassula Rydens quest for Ecumenism
Bishop Anil Couto
Vassula Ryden may not exactly have become a household name but she is a
spiritual celebrity enough for Christians across churches and denominations
to listen to her and want to seriously follow the True Life in God spiritual
path revealed by the Lord through her. She has visited Delhi at least thrice
since 1999 to talk to bishops and pastors, catholic Sunday congregations
and ecumenical gatherings about the True Life in God messages.
Since she claims to receive these revelations from God directly she is an
enigma both to the Greek Orthodox Church to which she belongs and to
the Roman Catholic Church towards which she strongly tends in her
divinely-inspired vocation to promote the unity of the One, Holy, Catholic
and Apostolic Church under the pastoral authority of the Chair of Peter i.e.
the Bishop of Rome or Pope of the Universal Church.
It was in November 1985 when Vassula was living in Bangladesh with her
husband (a Swedish international development expert) and two sons that she began to receive the
True Life in God messages from each person of the Holy Trinity and also from the Blessed Virgin
Mary. From 1955 Vassula has not been a church-goer; she did not know any catechism, leave alone
theology; she had hardly any acquaintance with the Bible. In fact she was a pleasure-loving
worldly woman who loved to play tennis, swim, model, socialize in clubs, paint and play host to
her husbands businessmen friends. It was in such strange circumstances that the call of God came
to her to leave her unspiritual path and be a prophet of True Life in God.
She received Gods revelations in an extraordinary way her hand being taken over to write these
messages. The handwriting in which these messages are written is big, vertical and clearly
distinguishable from her normal pattern of writing. According to the graphological interpretation of
her manuscripts her handwriting displays an extraordinary telluric force. The writer is filled with a
force that goes beyond her normal self with invisible power. She is an intermediary, like a centre of
transmission and amplification (cf. A Divine Bridal Call, p. 6). Graphologists would call such
handwriting hieratic . The messages dating from 1985 up until March 2003 and contained in 107
ordinary notebooks are now published in 12 volumes titled True Life In God. More will follow.
The messages are God s gifts of spiritual healing, love and mercy directed to all . Vassula, who has
been given this particular spiritual charism, is called to become an ardent witness of Christ,
carrying the Cross to the four corners of the secularized world. She is called to be an instrument of
divine providence and an echo of God s Word, compassion, reconciliation and peace together with
many other disciples to whom the Lord has also given similar vocation, although in a different
way. In spite of her spiritual sublimity, Vassula remains a very ordinary, humble, affectionate,
simple, down to earth Christian who is a housewife and a mother.