Vassula in Japan

Thursday, December 02, 1999 4:28 PM

This report comes from Sachiko Hitomi in Japan. It reports on just one of the meetings Vassula had in Japan in August.
Another report at: /jurns.html

Mrs Yuriko Otsuka was the organizer of Vassula’s meeting in Fukuoka with Mr. Mori, a Catholic Charismatic and friend of Mr. Hayashi that introduced Vassula’s messages to Yuriko’s group two years ago.

In her letter which told of her husband undergoing sugery because of a brain hemmhorage with 380cc of blood loss, a healthy husband having this stroke just a few days after Vassula left Fukuoka, and of his quick miraculous healing after the surgery (he is now back in his office with apparently no after-effects at all!!), she wrote the following report:

1999 August 6. 5:30pm – 7:30pm (attendance of 90 to 100 people), a hall in the center of Fukuoka City: That we could hold a conference at all was a blessing from God in itself, being able to welcome Vassula to Fukuoka. From 30 minutes before, we started singing hymns and waited quietly for her. As we listened to her, the infinite mercy of God our Father and Jesus was conveyed to us with a strong sense of reality. The word “intimacy” kept ringing in our ears very vividly (inspite of our poor understanding of English). Perhaps this fact was left in our hearts most of all. The joy of God our Father when we turn away from evil; how pure and beautiful Holy Mary is — penetrated deep into our hearts. The fervour with which Vassula talked gave us a notion of the fervour that Jesus Himself must have had, when He had talked in flesh. How moved we were when Vassula blessed us with her cross! I still feel the happiness I felt then. The hall, filled with the Holy Spirit, made us feel that we were attending not a conference but a prayer meeting. How tired you must have been but how grateful we were. Thank you so much, Vassula. We are also grateful for those who came from all the places in Kyushu (Kagoshima, Miyazaki, Oita, Kumamoto, Fukuoka).

Tomoshibi Chalice

* Tomoshibi (meaning ‘flame of light’) Chalice is the name Yuriko gave to her group that formally originated as a group studying <kiko(which is a new word not even in an ordinary Japanese dictionary, but very popular all over Japan now: a kind of health exercise having the background of Buddhist spirituality from Tibet).

* Yuriko, as the majority of middle to upper class in Japan, has an educational background of Christianity. She has been yearning for baptism, assured that Jesus is guiding her towards it. Now she realizes also that if she had been a Christian at the time this group was formed, the 50 members of her group (in Fukuoka and Osaka) would not have gathered around her in the first place. Now the group, when they gather, pray the rosary before the statue of Rosa Mystica. They have actually memorized the Prayer Manual that Vassula left us on her second coming to Japan, Yuriko told Mr. Mori recently. On September 23rd, 1999 at an Osaka meeting, Yuriko prayed fervently the 15 decades of the rosary, being urged to do so in her private prayers a few days before. After finishing her rosary with 10 members, 10 more came. Among them was one who professed openly that she still found it very difficult to accept Our Lady. Yuriko asked her to cradle the wooden statue for a moment, and when she did so, she heard the heart beat from the statue, which also became very warm. ( I heard this from Yuriko a few days after that, and I think she said that the lady, overwhelmed, began to cry. ) The whole 20 members took turns holding Our Lady and made sure of the fact, with joy and thanksgiving. The lady who couldn’t believe, now after more than a month, discovered that the chronic headache she suffered from her childhood has since disappeared completely (Yuriko told me on the phone last Friday)!