Vassula Ryden

Vassula Ryden ( born January 18, 1942 in Heliopolis, Egypt) had, in his own words various religious visions, about which she wrote several books.

Biography

Vassula Ryden was born as the daughter of Greek Orthodox parents in Egypt. She went to school in Egypt. At the age of 15, she emigrated to Europe.

In November 1966, she graduated in Lausanne ( Switzerland ), her first marriage. This marriage ended in divorce in November 1980 in Sweden. In June 1981, she married in a civil ceremony to Sweden by Ryden. In October 1991, she married her husband and church in a Greek Orthodox church in Lausanne. She has two sons who were born in 1971 and 1976.

Visions

Since 1985 she reported visions of Jesus, God and Mary. She has these experiences written down in 107 transcripts, published in 12 volumes. Her books have been translated into 42 languages ​​. Since 1989, Vassula Ryden has given over 800 lectures in 63 countries. The end of November, 1985, during Vassula lived in Bangladesh, appeared to her supposedly an invisible being who gave himself to recognize as a guardian angel Daniel. The nature made ​​contact, by leading the right hand writing of Vassula without Vassula would have had control of the writing hand. It originated texts and drawings. In this way, Ryden has received messages in English by his own admission, usually several hours a day.

Three months later, she took the presence of another being true, which introduced himself as God the Father, after a week of fasting reported Ryden, a new entity had made contact, which had identified himself as Jesus. The work: "True Life in God" ( True Life in God ), so Ryden was, caused by its promptings. In their vision descriptions then later appeared more beings: the mother of Jesus Mary, the Archangel Michael, the devil and other religious figures. The contents of the messages are religious in nature, in part, a refreshing biblical texts into modern language, some teachings of the Roman Catholic and Greek Orthodox churches. The main themes are the Christian Unity, a commitment to the Pope, the imminence of a time of purification, and that these messages should be made known, that the separation of Christians is to be terminated and to reconcile all religions.

Ryden's work has been reviewed by the Roman Catholic Congregation of the Faith, under the chairmanship of Cardinal Ratzinger, who came to the conclusion in 1995 that it was not supernatural messages, but results of private meditations and the bishops asking " their faithful inform appropriate ( to ) and their dioceses no spread of ideas Ryden'schen permit ( to ) "because " despite some positive aspects, the activities of Vassula Ryden have a negative effect. "

In January 2005, the affairs were settled by the Catholic Church, according to the website of Ryden's organization TLIG. A planned for early 2006 conference in Los Angeles was canceled by church organizations, as in the opinion of the bishop, the Vatican's rejection of the year 1995 was full still valid. Converse to a spokeswoman Vassula he described as "serious misinterpretation of the Vatican's point of view" ..

Cardinal William Levada, Prefect of the Congregation confirmed on 25 January 2007 that the decision of 1995 concerning the judgment of the Congregation of the works examined is still valid. It was " not appropriate for Catholics to attend prayer meetings that have been organized by Mrs Ryden. "

By decree of 16 March 2011, the Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople Opel were Vassula and her supporters of the True Life in God, including some priests, excommunicated and excluded.

Prophecies

The Ryden's writings also contain alleged prophecies. So the minutes of 11 September 1991 contains the following sentences: ... The earth will fluctuate, fear and tremble ... and all the evil that is built into Towers will collapse into a heap of rubble and be buried in the dust of sin " "

Furthermore, it is reported that the Western Christian and Eastern Christian Church will unite almost overnight again to a church: " Mercy and Justice accomplish such great marvels as they are not done for many generations, and the unit, it will come upon you like the dawn, and as sudden as the fall of communism - they will come from God, and your people will speak about the ' Great miracle', the blessed day in the history of mankind " (10 January 1990).

The extensive writings have been translated into 40 languages.

• True Life in God. Trinitas, 1991 ( ISBN 0-9631193-4-6 )
• Bearer of the Light: Vassula, Mediatrix of Divided Christians.Vassula Ryden & Michael O'Carroll, JMJ Publications, 1994 ( ISBN 0-9519973-6- X)
• Vassula Comes to the Monastery: The Second Pentecost is come ]. Vassula Ryden, CSWG Press ( ISBN 0-948108-13-4 )
• My Angel Daniel: Angel, Notebooks 1-4 Vassula Ryden, Trinitas, 1995 (ISBN 1-883225-17-5 )
• The mystery Vassula: In direct communication with God? Jacques Neirynck & Vassula Ryden, Parvis - Verlag, 1998 (ISBN 3-907523-87-3 )