Monday, January 16, 2006, Bangalore
The flight from New Delhi to Bangalore lasted about 2 ½ hours. At the airport were Mary Abraham and Sebastian Alcanther from the local group and the newly settled in Bangalore Greek couple, Antonis Tectonidis and his wife Teresa. They were the ones that invited Vassula to speak in Bangalore during the Unity Week.
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| Dinner at Antonis and Teresa’s house with Rev. Arokiasamy and TLIG friends |
We arrived at Antonis and Teresa’s house that will be housing in time as well the Beth Myriam. As they are old friends, there was a lot of catching up to do. The hours were flying away and we had to get ready, as Antonis had invited a pastor from the Church of South India (CSI), Rev. S. Arokiasamy and his wife, for dinner. They arrived along with Mary, Sebastian and Jacinta from the prayer group. Antonis introduced Rev. Arokiasamy to the messages just a week before, but it was as if he had known them for a long time. This was obvious from the prayer he said to bless the dinner – thanking Jesus for bringing Vassula and blessing her mission. The night went by with a lot of sharing in a very friendly tone.
Tuesday, January, 17, 2006, Bangalore
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| Rev. Arokiasamy presenting Vassula |
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Rev. Arokiasamy provided lunch at his house right next to his Church and had some time with Vassula to discuss in more depth the issues of Unity.
Wednesday, January 18, 2006, Bangalore
Happy Birthday, Vassula! A very significant day to celebrate her birthday: the 1st day of Unity Week and until some time ago, the feast day of the Seat of Peter. We should be aware that dates in God’s agenda are not by chance.
The day went by with Antonis and Teresa having to attend early to St. Francis Xavier’s Cathedral where the meeting was at 6.30 pm. It would take place outside as the attendance was expected to be more than the Cathedral could take in.
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| Band preceding Vassula and the priests to the meeting |
On the stage with Vassula were 5 Roman Catholic priests, Fr. John Solomon, Fr. Pradeep Segueira, Fr. Terence Fransz, Fr. John Amalan, Rt. Rev. Msgr. Joseph Francis and 1 of CSI, Rev. S. Arokiasamy. Rev. George Varghese from Mar Thoma Church and another 4 Rev. pastors from the CSI Church, Rev. G. Wilson, Rev. John Millon, Rev. Victor Thomas and Rev. P.K. Samuel and many religious sisters were present in addition to some unidentified ordained persons in the audience.
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| Vassula witnessing |
duced Vassula. Following, Fr. Pradeep Segueira, expressed how moved to tears he was because of the tone of sincerity, when a few months before the election of the present Pope, he read about the correspondence between Vassula and Cardinal Ratzinger on what authority she had to speak about revelation, known as the “Questions and Answers.” He said he believes the Holy Spirit was at work when this correspondence was going on and that he’s privileged to have met her. He concluded by announcing that today is her birthday. Everybody clapped, stood and sang the wishing song of “Happy Birthday” to her.
Vassula in return thanked the priests for assisting for this meeting for Unity. She asked everyone to stand and pray for Unity, explaining that “Unity is not just for unity in the Church, reconciliation in the Church, but it is also meant for families, between friends, nations, etc. It’s not just unity and reconciliation in the Church.”Vassula read the Prayer for Unity by Fr. Sergius Bulkakov (which Jesus indicated to put with His Message):
“O Jesus Christ, our Lord and Saviour,
You did promise to abide with us always.
You do call all Christians to draw near and partake of Your Body and Blood,
But our sin has divided us and we have no power to partake of Your Holy Eucharist together.
We confess this our sin and we pray to You, forgive us and help us to serve the ways of reconciliation, according to Your Will.
Kindle our hearts with the fire of the Holy Spirit; give us the spirit of Wisdom and faith,
of daring and of patience, of humility and firmness, of love and of repentance,
through the prayers of the most blessed Mother of God and of all the saints. Amen.”
Vassula continued by reading the prayer to the Father, Jesus gave her on July 8, 1990:
Father all Merciful,
let those who hear and hear again yet never understand,
hear Your Voice this time and understand that it is You the Holy of Holies;
open the eyes of those who see and see, yet never perceive,
to see with their eyes this time Your Holy Face and Your Glory,
place Your Finger on their heart so that their heart may open and understand Your Faithfulness,
I pray and ask you all these things Righteous Father
so that all the nations be converted and be healed
through the Wounds of Your Beloved Son Jesus Christ; Amen 
“When God speaks it’s always for the benefit of the Church. God intervenes in these times where the world has become aggressive and wicked with wars and hatred. God looks at His people, and, as He is Father, He intervenes,” Vassula said. She continued: “20 years ago God approached me when I was not a practicing Christian but I was enjoining what was pleasing me; playing tennis, painting and exhibiting, modeling clothes for fun with friends, filling my life with my things. And I didn’t have God in my life. I never went to Church and I never prayed. This is to show you God’s Mercy. I asked the Lord in the beginning many times: ‘why did You come to me to talk to me and call me’ because I was surprised. The Lord said: ‘Did you not know that wretchedness attracts Me? Through your wretchedness I shall show My Mercy to this world.’”
Vassula continued explaining, “God’s calling today to a deep metanoia (repentance), fruit of humility that leads us to reconciliation and unity. We, the people of the churches, must realize that we are living in constant sin, the sin of our division. Scripture says: ‘Every kingdom divided against itself is laid waste, and no city or house divided against itself will stand.’ Mt. 12,25. Even if this division did not come directly from us but from our forefathers, still, we are keeping it alive so long as we remain divided. We cannot say that God is pleased when the shepherds are still separated. We cannot deign to talk about unity without going through repentance and put into practice the two greatest commandments. It will be as though we want to construct a house without laying down first its foundations. The foundations of unity should be humility and divine love and the conversion of our hearts. We have to ask ourselves: ‘are we looking upon unity according to our own mind, and this is why perhaps we are still separated, or are we seeking it as the Spirit of God wants it, but we do not agree to it?’ In many messages in the beginning the Lord said: “Lower even more now your voice so you may hear only Mine; lower your head, so that Mine would be seen; lower yourself so that I can lift you up to Me;” September 26, 1991
This is the dying to one’s self and each church should be willing to die to its ego and to its rigidity and then through this act of humility, Christ’s presence will be shining in them. The churches should allow the Holy Spirit Who is the inner source of Christian Unity, to renew and fragrance them first, then in their turn they will fragrance nation after nation, bringing them all to be one in the Truth, thus perfuming the Mystical Body of Christ. The Holy Spirit in the messages calls out to His Bride for Unity and says:
“Pray, that I, the utter fullness of God, the utterance of your spirit, the light in your eyes, descend in your midst to show the world how wrong it was, to show to the churches their iniquity of their division and how, although they declare daily that there is one Lord, one faith, one baptism and one God who is Father of all, over all, through all and within all, are uncharitable with one another. We (the Holy Trinity) cannot say: “you have done everything to preserve the unity I offered you in the beginning when you were still a child and in My Arms;”
Today you say: “I am not a child any longer and I can walk by myself.” And since you stepped out of My Embrace and accustomed your steps to walk your own way…O child of the Father! Fruit of the Son! My City and My Bride! Your Fragrance left you…are there going to be any survivors left when I will descend in full force?” November 9, 1994
Vassula concluded the part of Unity speech saying that, “Unity will come only when all of us will truly begin to love Jesus Christ.” She continued by sharing her experience in the beginning with her Guardian Angel and how he guided her to find a Bible and read. She opened in random to read but couldn’t understand any word, anything. Through this God wanted to show her she was in darkness, she couldn’t see, totally blind to the Word of God. That made her cry bitterly, with great remorse. And the Angel told her: “Look what you’ve done in the past and have offended God.” For 3 weeks she was shown all scenes of small and big things. She didn’t see them in a normal state or as we see them, but with God’s Eyes, how He sees them. And they were atrocious. And again she cried bitterly for recognizing her ‘leprosy’ and guilt, her wretchedness and being unworthy. She saw how she was taking for granted all of God’s blessings in her daily life – as we all do.
“And what are God’s blessings? Our life, our children, our family, our clothes, our health, the roof above our head, our food is a blessing; our work is a blessing, etc. But we don’t see that. We think that with our own force and health we manage to do all these things. That’s why we must die to ourselves and our ego and bless God daily for these blessings. That was one of the things that offended God: I did not thank Him enough, I did not praise Him enough, I did not glorify Him enough for all that He had given me in my life.
After that purification Jesus came as the Sacred Heart. We Orthodox people don’t have the Sacred Heart devotion. We honour Jesus as the Almighty, the Pantocrator but we don’t have the devotion to the Sacred Heart. He came because first the devotion to the Sacred Heart is an intimate relationship with Jesus Christ and secondly to show that He does not differentiate us from one another. It’s us, the Church is not divided, it’s the people of the Church that are divided.”
She emphasized on being united and one with Christ, like the branch and the vine, and shared one of her experiences: when she was meditating one morn