Vassula in USA
Vassula visits the USA again promoting her new book, “Heaven is Real, but so is Hell” in March and April 2013
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“Heaven is Real, But so is Hell” – with this striking title, Vassula’s new remarkable book was published earlier this year, on March 16. It a wondrous journey through her life and speaks about the unique charism God has granted her to communicate with the supernatural world. |
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Heaven is Real But so is Hell is a tour of the earliest days of her life and experiences of her childhood, the first unexpected contact with her guardian angel, and her impressive encounter with God the Father. It speaks about the life-giving and life-saving teachings of Jesus Christ, the eternal guidance of the Holy Spirit, the maternal advices of the Blessed Virgin Mary, but also the hateful attacks against Vassula from the world of darkness. In a unique way, Vassula recounts the visions during her “filled with awe” visit in Heaven, the grief and agony of the souls in Hades, but also the real existence of Hell and its tortures.
The book contains excerpts from the Messages Vassula has been receiving since 1985 titled, “True Life in God” that not only provide answers to key questions about this life and the next, but also reveal prophecies that have already taken place over the last 15 years. The True Life in God Messages additionally tell us about other prophesies to be carried out in accordance with the Divine plan of salvation for mankind.
The readers of True Life in God around the world waited anxiously for the release of this book. The writing of it was an achievement, as Vassula has had numerous spiritual experiences, and had to record only some, while others she had to leave off. It took a five long years and many sacrifices to complete the book and to give it in for printing right before Christmas 2012. Meanwhile, in the midst of writing the book, her mission, to witness about Jesus Christ and His Messages which she receives never stopped. She continued to witness to the faithful in countries that invited her to come.
From the publishing house that took over the publication and distribution of the Heaven book, up to the agencies that would manage the promotion led by Paul Lauer*, all supporters worked intensively for the immediate advertising and marketing of it in the best way.
* Founder and CEO of Motive Entertainment, designed and executed the record-breaking grassroots marketing campaigns for The Passion of the Christ, The Chronicles of Narnia, Polar Express, and Rocky Balboa. One of the most innovative marketing and development executives in Hollywood, frequently tapped to reach and mobilize huge audiences; Paul has been honored as one of Ad Age’s Top 50 Marketers of the Year. Paul also founded the successful YOU! Magazine for teens, and has worked with numerous celebrities and sports stars, hosted radio and TV shows, produced the World Youth Day Music Festival for over 100,000 young people (Denver, 1993), produced documentary television, co-authored four books, and has appeared on CNN, Fox, and TBN, and in over 50 newspapers and magazines, including the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and the Wall Street Journal.
Starting with the creation of a webpage on Facebook named “Jesus Ιs Returning”, the projection of a promotional snapshot on one of the screens in New York’s Times Square, on December 25th, Christmas Day of 2012, and the circulation of printed promotional material, the time had come for Vassula to go to the USA. The whole process of promoting the book required her personal presence – of the author and prophet.
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With the arrival of Vassula in the U.S., major events worldwide began to happen. The announcement of the unexpected resignation of Pope Benedict 16XVI shocked everyone. The 85-year-old Benedict’s reasoning was simple: he considers himself too worn down to fill the role. It had been a very lengthy 600 years since there had been a pope who resigned. The previous Pope who had resigned was in the year 1415. . A month after Pope Benedict’s resignation, the papal conclave elected a new pope, Jorge Mario Bergoglio. The name he chose – Francis – was in honor of St. Francis of Assisi. He is the first pope from Latin America, but also from America in general. Before his election as Pope, he served as a Roman Catholic cardinal of Argentina. Vassula had previously met him on a visit to Buenos Aires and they had talked together about the unity of the Church.
Two days after the pope’s resignation, a meteorite streaked across the sky and exploded over central Russia, raining fireballs over a vast area and causing a shock wave that smashed windows, damaged buildings and injured 1,200 people. It measured around 55 feet and weighed around 10,000 tons.
Two days later, on February 15, a small asteroid was passing very close to Earth, so close that it passed inside the ring of geosynchronous weather and communications satellites. According to NASA scientists, the trajectory of the Russia meteor was significantly different than the trajectory of the asteroid 2012 DA14, making it a completely unrelated object. In videos of the meteor, it is seen to pass from left to right in front of the rising sun, which means it was traveling from north to south. Asteroid DA14’s trajectory is in the opposite direction, from south to north. Τhe distance that separated them was 500,000 km of space and 12 hours of time.
These are the Signs of the Times. It is no coincidence that in those five days before these incidents, the Lord called Vassula to remind all of us of the prayer He had given her in November 28, 2009, telling us to start praying it again every day and for the rest of the year:
“Tender Father, lash not Your wrath on this generation,
lest they perish altogether;
Lash not on Your flock distress and anguish,
for the waters will run dry and nature will wither;
all will succumb at Your wrath leaving no trace behind them;
The heat of Your Breath will put aflame the earth turning it into a waste!
From the horizon a star will be seen;
The night will be ravaged and ashes will fall as snow in winter,
covering Your people like ghosts;
Take Mercy on us, God, and do not assess us harshly;
Remember the hearts that rejoice in You and You in them!
Remember Your faithful and let not Your Hand fall on us with force,
But, rather in Your Mercy lift us and place Your precepts in every heart. Amen”
This was all the more a reason to promote the new book to reach as many souls as possible. Thus prepared for this long-term stay and mission in USA, Vassula was ready in Los Angeles for the first task in promoting the new book: the development of a short film, a documentary about her life, the charism of communicating with God and all that God has allowed her to see, to hear and feel in the spiritual world.
“Oh daughter, tell them, tell them that My Heart is an abyss of Love and Mercy; the Spirit whom I am sending you will remind you of the Truth and that I Am;” – the words of Jesus echoing from an earlier extensive journey of Vassula in the U.S. and Canada on 10 June 1994.
On the morning of Monday, February 25th, the house of Dr. Anthony and Claire Mansour, where Vassula was staying, was filled with the filming crew responsible for the shooting. Sound engineer, cameramen, people in charge of the lighting, those responsible for the script, all cooperated with Vassula to record as faithfully as possible the particular life of the one with the unique charisma of conversing with the Creator of all. The filming lasted until late afternoon, with everyone from the filming crew thrilled for the opportunity given to them to meet up close and hear from Vassula herself what God is saying to the world today.
In the meantime, friends and readers of True Life in God in the U.S.A had already been working hard to promote the new book as volunteers. In direct collaboration with Paul Lauer and his PR team, they undertook the task to inform everyone who had any contact with the Messages about this new book. So that same evening, 90 people were on a conference call via phone and internet – organized down to the last detail by Jonathan Kosoy – for a word of encouragement from Vassula who spoke to them for 10 minutes.
Calling them ‘collaborators of God’, Vassula told them that they are participating in the Salvific plan of God … that the work actually only now begins … we must ‘keep our sleeves rolled up’. She continued by saying that “God has chosen the right time to bring this book out now. It’s not by accident, no, it is the timing of God for the United States. Look around you; just listen to the news – God is passing now among you. This book will bring millions of lost souls back to Him to discover the love of God …”
God is speaking. Are we listening?
Thus began Vassula’s two-month-plus mission in the USA. Requests for interviews from various radio stations with local and national coverage from all the States started coming incessantly. The radio interviews exceeded 50 in total, their duration ranging from 10 minutes to half an hour; some were live on air and others recorded.
Due to the time difference from coast to coast, some requests for a live interview were for 4am, 5am, 5.30am and 6 o’clock in the morning, so that Vassula’s interview would be heard during prime-time. Thereby, when in New York it was 7am, in Los Angeles where Vassula was staying it was 4 in the morning … In New York, it was the time people were driving to work, while listening on the radio to the news of the day… And what kind of news these interviews of Vassula brought!
Some stations asked Vassula for a second interview. The subjects of the interviews varied: some were about her new book, about her mystical abilities, the exorcisms, the election of the new Pope Francis, about Lent. Even the hosts themselves were impressed by her personality and the story of her life and experiences. Some even wrote:
“Vassula Ryden’s reputation preceded her and she lived up to it as an enlightening and engaging guest whose messages reaffirmed my own faith, she is always welcome as a guest on my radio show.” – Rhett Palmer, Radio Host, WAXE
“Vassula is one of the great guests I have had on the radio program in the last 6 months and we have had a lot of them. Vassula is very articulate and comes across as a warm and engaging guest. The listener comes away with a sense of knowing they have the facts and are entertained at the same time. “
– James Lowe, Host, Syndicated Jiggy Jaguar Radio Show
“A curious accounting of a woman’s experience with the supernatural.”
– Judlyne Lilly, WNEW-FM
“She (Vassula) was a huge hit today. My phone lines were lighting up and after everyone wanted to know who she was. I was just blown away at my audience’s reaction to Vassula on the Health Show at 12:30 today. She was so engaging and we did a few book giveaways. After I moved on we got at least 10 more calls wanting to know how they can find out more about her, how did she spell her name, would she be back on again.”
– Ms. Frankie Boyer, WROL-AM 950
On March 11 Vassula was interviewed for a web TV channel, for the first time via Skype. MalcolmOutLoadTV-1 hosted Vassula for 20 minutes. Malcolm, from Malcolm Out Loud is a commentator of national news and politics. He is a published author and speaker. After the interview with Vassula he said:
“We have lost the everyday conversation about God and Vassula is helping remind us of the importance and goodness of open discussion about belief and faith. I implore you to take a look at the messages that Vassula delivers in her book.”
– Malcolm Out Loud
Being touched and enthused by her experiences, Malcolm Out Loud invited Vassula to visit his studio in Tampa, Florida, whenever her schedule would allow it, for a live web TV program.
Meanwhile, the book was already in the internet bookstores: Barnes & Noble (B&N), Books-a-Million and Amazon. The amount of books sold in pre-sales were increasing day by day and to the surprise of all the book reached number 1 on the lists of B&N in just a few days. The date in which the book would be available to the public was fixed for March 16. Volunteers of TLIG and those responsible for the Public Relations and the promotional campaign worked endlessly. Vassula’s meetings with Paul Lauer were continuous.
The Armenian TV channel AMGA was the first to open its doors to Vassula. With TV host Malvina Mkhchian, a friend of Claire Mansour and the messages of True Life in God, Vassula had a live half-hour show that touched not only Christian viewers, but viewers of other religions as well. The countless phone calls Malvina received after this first broadcast and the full of enthusiastic comments left no room for inaction. It was agreed that the program should be continued as soon as Vassula’s tour schedule would allow; consequently, it was able to begin in a few days. The popularity of Vassula’s interviews promised to be sustained, as there were already 3 shows on this channel with high ratings.
The Persian TV channel HIGH VISION was