Vassula in Le Mans – France

October 16, 1999

On Saturday October 16, 1999, Vassula was in Le Mans, France. That date was providential: it was both the liturgical celebration of St. Margaret Mary Alacoque (b. in Vesosvres in 1647; d. in Paray-le-Monial in 1690) and the anniversary of the pontifical election of Pope John-Paul II. Thus, on that day, the Sacred Heart of Jesus was somehow uniting His messengers: St. Margaret Mary and Vassula.

By 2:30 p.m. the Palais des Congres was already filled with 1400 people who had come from all over France and even far-away countries — Benin, Togo, the West Indies, Madagascar, Vietnam, Ile de la Reunion. After a warm welcome, Andre Roueil introduced Father Theophilus, who began by welcoming the people from Madagascar in Malagasy, then spoke to us of the present charisma of prophecy. Vassula then gave the following talk:

This evening I have chosen messages about the Sacred Heart, since today I am going to speak of the Sacred Heart. I chose what is the heart of the Sacred Heart, therefore messages that tell us what God’s Heart is like. As readers of True Life in God know, those messages cover many subjects; it is not just the introduction or the presentation of the Sacred Heart.

There are other messages — I could say whole pages — which introduce us to the Holy Spirit, the third divine Person of the Holy Trinity. This is because we do not know the Holy Spirit well; we know Him very little. Therefore Jesus teaches us; in fact the Holy Spirit Himself speaks. There are people (people faithful to the teachings of the Church and who go to church regularly) who sometimes tell me: “But the Holy Spirit, is He a person or a symbol or a dove? What is it?”

Our Lord knows us and we are presently living in this apostasy (and we must not be surprised if there are some negative reactions); and as Jesus says in many messages: “Ecclesia will live again”. Ecclesia is a Greek word which means “Church”. This gives much hope because Ecclesia — the Church — will live. At the very beginning, Our Lord asked me things which were like mountains before me because — for those who do not know me — I did not go to church, I never attended Sunday school, I knew nothing. All the teachings in True life in God were given to me internally, by the Voice of God, sometimes in locutions or, sometimes later, I received lights projected in my intellect: what God thought, what He wanted me to write, without any spoken words but I understood what He meant and I wrote it.

But I would like to tell you first what happened recently during my trips. Two months ago, I was invited to Japan. It was not the first time that I had been to Japan, it was the third time. But what was surprising and different from previous invitations was that this particular one came from Hiroshima — where the atomic bomb had exploded —, and it came from Buddhist monks who wanted to listen to the testimony of a Christian. They wanted to know more about Jesus and Mary. I was surprised by this invitation but I thought they wanted to know more about Peace, the Unity of God who now calls us. I went to Hiroshima, and there were some Catholics, even a Bishop, and three Buddhist monks, among whom the Superior, called “bonze”, welcomed me, as well as some lay Buddhists. I did not know that Japanese Buddhist monks are allowed to marry; I was told that their wives read TLIG. In the hotel, in my bedroom, I opened a small copybook of the TLIG and I fell on these words:

“Even foreigners, even these have listened to My Voice and have understood My Words”(September 20, 1989)

When we read True Life in God, Our Lord gives us many prophecies, that is to say, Our Lord says things but we do not understand them immediately, and later, when reading them again — with all that has occurred during close to 14 years —, one sees that everything He said has been fulfilled. He made me understand that even people who never knew who Christ is, who are not Christian, shall wish, in our time, to listen to His word. And Who is at work there? It is the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is at work now and we speak of a New Pentecost, of a Second Pentecost.

One must not wait for the day of this New Pentecost, because it has already started. God speaks very loud with very strong symbols. Even in the Holy Scriptures, when you see expressions like “stars are going to fall on the earth” etc… those are God’s expressions. I have realized that God’s expressions do not take form in a material way; it means that prophecy can take place in front of you without your being aware of it because what is happening is almost natural. For example, Our Lord speaks of this Second Pentecost and of the new era which is to come which will be filled with the Holy Spirit, and there will be the purifying fire. I did not quite understand how all this would take place. Will it be a day of Second Pentecost, when every one will speak and sing simultaneously in tongues and prophesy? In fact, what is that Second Pentecost for which even Pope John XXIII has prayed so much in order to renew the Church?

Finally — only when God willed it — it was while I was giving a testimony in French in front of a TV camera that, all of a sudden, I was given the light to understand what is the Second Pentecost. When it comes from God, I want to jump with joy, as it is so extraordinary. I feel this joy: this is it. It is not I who discovers it, it is God who discloses it. Then, I understood that the Second Pentecost has already started a few years ago. The Second Pentecost is individual. Take, for example, someone spiritually dead for many years; you think this is hopeless, that he will never find God and that he is not interested at all in spirituality; suddenly what happens? It’s the Holy Spirit: he hears a word or reads a sentence; it is the Holy Spirit who lifts him up and resurrects him spiritually.

How do we see the difference between a person who observes his religion, who has always observed his religion and been faithful, and the same person who as been renewed by the Holy Spirit? Those who have now been renewed are full of the ardent Fire of the Holy Spirit. They become witnesses and are full of zeal for God; they do nothing but bear witness and put God first before anything else. They are like new persons and this Fire is always present, i.e. He is within them, ardent, and they are witnesses and become apostles of the last times. As I travel much, I see this fervour everywhere. When one meets God, this is the New Pentecost, it is the individual Second Pentecost, within everyone.

And this multiplies, and it reaches now even Buddhists. In Bangladesh where I was recently, there were 5000 people in the meeting, more than half of them Muslim. They listen to this divine Message, a call for Love, a call for Unity, a call for Reconciliation. This is the strongest call in True Life in God: Reconciliation. Without reconciliation, there is no unity and it shows that love is missing. But since God is all merciful, He tells us through the messages of True Life in God how to take the first step, how to achieve reconciliation. It is through repentance because, when one repents, the fruit of repentance is love and then, with love, one can do everything, one can become reconciled; and one knows full well that as long as we are divided, this is not according to God’s thinking, it is contrary to God’s thinking; it is the devil, the divider who keeps us divided.

The reaction of the Buddhists was extraordinary. I spoke of the Blessed Virgin, also of the messages of the Blessed Virgin. I spoke of Jesus, of His Love. I spoke of the Holy Trinity. I said it all, as I had to and I waited for their reaction. Then the bonze came toward me and what he said will be in the next newsletter of information of True Life in God. Already Buddhists are making a step towards Christianity to discover the Trinity; and therefore it was a triumph of Jesus in Japan, this time, because if they already accept messages of True Life in God, the trinitary spirituality, there is much hope for Japan, and each time I go to Japan I find people ready to be baptized. They were pagans, not even Buddhist, and suddenly they became Christian. Conversions to Christianity occur constantly in Japan and this thanks to the Holy Spirit.

I would also like to say a word about the steps to follow in True Life in God. It is a call to reconciliation, to unity, within families, within nations and also within the Church, the Unity to which Christ is calling us: unite His Church. But True Life in God also teaches about the Holy Spirit and is also a revelation of the Heart of Mary, i.e. who is Mary, what is the Heart of Mary… this is a whole teaching on Mary. In True Life in God, there are also grave and even sad messages about the condition in which the Church presently finds itself. But when God speaks — one must always know this — when God speaks, He says what He finds wrong with us (because we can say that no one is really perfect) but since He is Father, He says it with love and when God speaks, He always end on a note of hope. God lifts up the soul, He never squashes the soul and that is how we recognize God, His Love, His Splendid Love. If He intervenes, it is not in my personal interest but for the interest of the Church, of everyone. We are the Church and it is for the Church’s benefit that God speaks.

I would now like to say a prayer before giving you a few passages of the Divine Call that I call the Nuptial Call, because the Heart of God is the Nuptial chamber that we all must reach and enter.

In the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Amen

“In Your great condescendence You have,
Lover of all mankind, hymned to us
to rejoice us; You have, as a bridegroom
who prepares for his bride a banquet,
You have prepared for all of us
a royal banquet so that we can all
feast on the bounty of Your house;
You give us drink from Your river of pleasure;
yes,for with You, my Lord,
is the fountain of Life,
by Your Light we see the Light.
As a doe longs for running streams,
may our soul long for You, my God;
may our soul thirst for God,
the God of Life;
the God of Hope;
the God of Consolation;
let our soul now enjoy Your sweetness
that is schooling us by addressing us
in a most delightful way. Amen.
(June 22, 1998)

When I was in Japan, in Tokyo, at Sofia University, there was a professor, a Jesuit, Father Valera. He is a theologian of high level and sometimes, when he speaks, I do not understand anything. This is a language which is beyond me, maybe a little technical which makes it difficult for me to understand and I ask him to explain to me in the simplest way what he means; then, he repeats what he has said. He told me once that he had discovered something extraordinary in True Life in God. I asked him what it was. He answered: “The Lectura Divina that we have lost.” I then asked him: “What is the Lectura Divina?” He told me there used to be a time when the Catholic Church would learn to understand the Bible not by reading a passage and analyzing what had been read, but by taking different passages and putting them together to come up to an explanation.

And if you read True Life in God, Jesus teaches us for example about the apostasy. People ask me how I get the messages. Jesus wants me to always keep the Bible by me, because He gives me passages to explain and sometimes to copy in True Life in God as He explains those passages to me. Then everything happens so quickly; for example He does not say: “open the Bible at Ezechiel Chapter 28.1.” No. He does not waste His time like that. He says: “Open the Bible.” Then, with total trust, blind, I open the Bible at random and He says: “write.” Then the Bible opens exactly where it was supposed to open. He is fast this way and I write. He tells me: “stop, now; now it is I who will dictate” and He dictates. Then suddenly, He says: “Stop; open the Bible”. I open the Bible at random and He says: “Write”. And all this happens at an extraordinary speed.

He does not tell me: “open the Bible, I will explain to you”. For example, on the apostasy, He says to me: “Open”. I open and find the book of Daniel; I write this passage. He tells me : “open again the Bible”. I fall on Ezechiel 28, which reveals also the apostasy, the rebel, the spirit of rebellion. “Open again the Bible”. I open the Bible and I fall on 2 Thessalonians 2, where St. Paul speaks also of the apostasy, and of the rebel, and of the spirit of rebellion. And once more: “Open the Bible”. I open the Bible and I fall on the Apocalypse, etc.

This is the way it happens in True Life in God. If you observe biblical passages, learn that it happened exactly as I have just described. He told me: “Open, this is it. Then put all of this together, this has a meaning.” Father Valera taught me this is called “Lectura Divina”.

And also, for example, for the Two Witnesses, the two Hearts who witness. The Two Hearts, they are Jesus and Mary, the Two Hearts who will triumph at the End Times; they will triumph, because Jesus will triumph. Sometimes people ask: “but when, when?”. When we observe all that is happening, we say: ” but Jesus is this Your time now? because You were saying that it was my time; my time is short but Yours is one thousand years. But Your time must be starting.” The triumph is close. The fight is great because Satan is not giving up and he always wants to deceive people. He always wants to keep them divided.”

But regarding the Two Hearts: One day Our Lord told me: “Open the Bible.” I fall on Apocalypse 11, the Two Witnesses. It was Christmas Eve and He told me: “this is a Christmas present for you”. He tells us how it happens. He describes that passage: the two witnesses are the Two Hearts of Jesus and Mary, because today, They prophesy. Mary appears everywhere and Jesus too. This is a testimony and They use instruments to transmit Their Word; Their testimony is much attacked, and this everybody knows. They are attacked because the world has become so rationalistic that it does not believe anymore in the divine, that it does no believe anymore in miracles, that it does not believe that God is alive, that He can speak.

When Jesus explained Apocalypse 11 to me, He said: “Open also Zechariah 4.4″. The two branches of olive tree, the two lamps that shine in the dark, they go together also, it helps understand that passage: Let no one say ‘the Two Hearts, this is not in the Bible'”. We do not understand the Bible anymore, so Jesus now shows us that if we put this passage with that other passage, that is where He is already speaking of the Two Hearts.

Our Lord said to me one day:” I wish you to bear witness to My Holiness and My Divine Sweetness, be like a loud book, a book written by the Triune God.”
(September 25, 1997)

Unfortunately, especially in my Orthodox Church, we have lost the meaning of the sweetness of God. We have made him into a God who is only a Judge, rigid, and who condemns. But this is surely due to the heart of man who has become like that, then he sees his God in this way. We have lost the meaning of the sweetness of God. So, since He asks me to bear witness to His sweetness, today, I will bear witness to the sweetness of God’s Heart.

So, now, we are going to enclose ourselves in the Heart of our Saviour and seek to understand the Invisible God through simplicity and purity of heart. Let us seek to understand His exuberant Love in the divine union and in the intimacy that His Majesty has deigned to offer us by surrendering completely to Him. Let us try to understand what God means when He speaks of His Sweetness. This is what Our God says in a message:

“…flesh and blood will always brood evil and take pleasure in doing evil; these same souls do not talk about My sweetness nor of My Divinity because their minds do not know how to separate My Divine sweetness from their own flesh and blood’s desires; no, they do not see that there is a difference; when I speak, My dove, with My Lips that are moist with grace, holiness and sweetness, they do not understand My sayings and cannot fathom My purity in My Magnificence; their hearts are so hard that it becomes impossible for them to fathom the brightness and the Divinity of My Heart; this is why these hearts are eclipsed from My Light, and in their perishable body and thought they accuse Me that My Words are excessive and sentimental; these are of whom I say: “they are strangers to Me and they do not know Me…” (September 25, 1997)

“…inscribe on your heart, all of you, this fundamental truth: “the Lord God knows those who are His Own and so allows them to come near Him;” these are destined to attain perfection in the divine and intimate union with Us; they are called to be transfigured in Us and be one with Us; their old self will be no more, but in an ineffable manner I gave always to My saints, I would deify them in Our union; through Me, I deify all those to whom I am united and they no longer speak with their own mind but in the manner I would speak; they no longer see with their eyes but in the manner I would see things; their acts would be My acts.” (June 22, 1998)

To reach this perfection that God asks of us, we must take steps and these are found in True Life in God. The first call of God the Father was not: “Vassula, I am God the Father; come, I want to give you messages; write,” then God would give me messages. No, it didn’t happen like that at all; it was done progressively through many steps. God didn’t want me to go out into the world — He didn’t want to send me into the world — to proclaim His Word, unless I loved Him the way He wou