Monday, December 31, 2001 4:59 PM

Message from Vassula

Dear TLIG family,

We come to the end of this turbulent year and very hopefully we pray for a peaceful forthcoming year. As I am writing to you I have near me my bible which is open. Just after I typed out the first sentence my eyes fell on these lines: “Come think of Yahweh’s marvels, the astounding things he has done in the world; all over the world he puts an end to wars, he breaks the bow, he snaps the spear, he gives shields to the flames…” (Ps 46: 8-9) Well, I hope it is a prophecy although so many times in the messages God is warning us that if we do not convert and change our heart through prayer, penance and sacrifice we will be facing very difficult times. In Scripture it says: “The people who refused to listen to the warning from a voice on earth could not escape their punishment, and how shall we escape if we turn away from a voice that warns us from heaven?” (Hb 12: 25)

To have been given a message as in True life in God is a blessing, therefore, let us hold on to the grace that we have been given at no cost and use it to evangelise the world and spread God’s Kingdom to lands that have never heard of God. This needs courage. But it is not only the courage that is needed. One needs to walk with God and do his Will and to have the mind of Christ, how else would one be ready to spread the Word of God and turn the hearts of the unconverted towards God?

The messages of TLIG are messages that draw us closer to God to know God and understand him. Many of you were brought closer to God and through your “yes” to God, turned your lives holy. God wants us to be perfect. Therefore, purity of the soul is essential so that a divine union can take place between God and his creature. When the creature has given himself up to God, the mind then contains nothing else but God and his life will be turned into an unceasing prayer.

What one should keep asking for is dispassion. Through dispassion we shall be reborn through the Holy Spirit, who with delight he will instruct us of all the things that are invisible to the eye but which are eternal. Then, God will converse with the gods born of him by grace. The Holy Spirit will teach us to know God and what more delightful than to know God and understand him? Immediately your soul will feel that you are kin to God!

Since two years now I had been urging every reader of TLIG, (and you are many) to become a witness. This year though it was evident that our Lord was pushing me to push you. Why? Because he saw that some of you were ready to go out and evangelise and christinaize this dechristinaized society! It was not easy for me to prepare this project. Carol Chamberlain was here with me then and I got a lot of help from her as well. This project that God wanted me to do took at least 3 months of preparation. I had to ask the Lord to help me put up those 27 questions to you all. Then the answers came in. I had to read more than 80 people’s responses. Those that passed the test were then asked to prepare a tape where they would give their witnessing. Witnessing on the TLIG, were they capable? Or were they not? That had to be seen as well. I passed 28 hours listening to tapes. Then I had to correct each one and give some advice to each one. Then I asked to have organizers and had to place the witnesses with the organizers so that they communicate with one another while at the same time the other project which is our pilgrimage in Egypt had started to take shape. Jonathan, the co-ordinator did a great job, as a professional at work. It took a lot out of him. Names kept pouring in here in Rome of people who wanted to go to Egypt. As the pilgrimage was meant only for 200 people and not more (now it is for 300) I had to select the ones to come from the 500 and over of people who wanted to join this pilgrimage.

This pilgrimage is not to just join to pray together for unity and meditate, but it was also meant to bring forth the hard-working people of TLIG together and exchange views of our work. Carol is preparing a work-shop so that we all progress in spreading even more the messages and be useful to Jesus. The pilgrimage would consist of prayers together, daily Mass, daily adoration to the Blessed Sacrament, meditation time will be in the hours of travelling and sometimes in our rooms, work-shop will be every other day, and almost every day between 5 and 7 we will have clergy coming up to speak for only 20 minutes of how they see unity and reconciliation.

We will be moving a lot, visiting and venerating all the sites where the holy family passed by. We will take advantage of this travelling too of seeing famous historical sites since they are at close range where the holy family passed by. We will visit monasteries and especially the one in the Sinai of St. Catherine. There will be a possibility of climbing the Moses mountain either by foot or by camel, or those who do not feel like climbing can have a rest. But the main purpose of us joining in Egypt is so that we reinforce our aim of unity and learn more of how one can evangelise and spread the TLIG messages in a more efficacious way. So for anyone who does not feel comfortable with all of this, I suggest you think about it. We are going there, not only to obtain and “refill our batteries” with spirituality like you do in a place like Medjugorje, but we will also learn how to GIVE to the others who have not received and share the riches we obtained. We are going to learn not to be selfish and think what is good for our soul only, but we are going to think of other souls as well, of what we can do to others to bring them to God. As you have heard, before, the biggest service you can render God is to bring one soul back to Him. For this we have to die to our selfishness. We are going to learn to share and give and not just to obtain and not give. The Lord invited us to his rich banquet and we ate at our heart’s content. How about if we go out there and tell others as well that there is a rich banquet that they too can taste and be healed as we were healed.

Yes, we have to be careful that no one is deprived of the grace of God that we have received throughout all these years.

While having to prepare all of this I never stopped testifying and travelling to give and share the riches of TLIG. At the same time I was being called by our Lord to receive more messages which are more of teachings than “messages”. As a housewife I had also to attend to my duties. And as a daughter and mother as well to visit now and then when I could my family. I have been tested again by our Lord as he tested me the year before with almost every member of my family falling very ill. The sickness of my son, just after his marriage, (now thanks to your prayers he is OK), thanks be to God; my mother near death, when the family called me the eve of Christmas day to rush to Switzerland and be near her. Leaving my husband and son who came from the States to pass Christmas with us, attending my mother during the whole week of Christmas at the hospital. Then, this year, while travelling with my husband by car from Switzerland to Rome, after passing Genova, we were left with 3 hours more to reach Rome. I received an emergency call from my brother in law saying that my sister (Yannula) was at her end and dying and that the doctors had asked him to call immediately the whole family and that she would not make it through the night. With this news we went straight to the airport of Fiumucino, barely made it for the last flight to Athens. My ticket was for a week, since after that week I had one day in Rome to prepare my other suitcase for the mission in Sri-Lanka, Bangladesh and India. As I was, with my suitcase (ready) I flew over to Athens and went straight to the hospital arriving at 10.30 p.m. Yannula was on oxygen and really suffering. The first words when she saw me were: “Look I know I am dying now. I want you to ask Jesus to forgive all my sins.” I said that I would do it. I stayed with her up until 2.00 a.m. and left her with her son. I did not know whether I had seen the last of her being alive. Helen, my other sister arrived from Switzerland as well. The next day she was still alive but the

doctors did not want to give us hopes and said that she will not make
it. Her death is for any day, any moment. So this went on for four
days. She was suffering so much that I asked Jesus to make up his mind.

Or he takes her immediately or he heals her. My family and myself were preparing also her funeral. But the Lord must have heard your prayers again and decided to keep her alive and in fact the 5th day became better and the sixth day she was sitting and the seventh day she hardly used the mask and wanted to eat and was smiling leaving the doctors in awe. At least when I left for my mission I left with peace and no worry, glory be to God. After a week more always improving, she was allowed to leave the hospital and from weighing 30 kilos she gained now 12 kilos and is 42. Although she has still the disease she is doing alright and her moral (spirit) is better than yours and mine. She still needs your prayers and maybe our Lord will decide to keep her going and heal her completely.

The other thing that made us review one of the prophecies I had been given was the event of the 11th September. As you know, ten years ago, same date, the Lord had given me the prophecy of the towers. But even before that prophecy, back in 1988 or 89 (I do not remember which of the two years it was) while watching on TV a documentary of New York and it was showing us the city from across the sea, I saw the smoke and an apocalyptic scene, exactly how it happened and I said aloud about the city of New York: “and all of this will be no more…” With me I had two people who heard me and they can witness. I do not want to focus so much on “events” and I recommend it to all of you otherwise you would give less importance to the value of the salvation of your soul. God has warned us that evil draws evil. So what we have to do is to lift our faces to God in prayer. Ask for the gift of love and humility. Live the messages. Go and receive Jesus at Mass, and go to adoration and be with Jesus. Confess your sins often. Be in peace with everyone. Etc. Etc. Those that are focusing on events and are trying in their own way to decipher the prophecies will end up empty-handed when they will be in front of God’s Throne.

As my husband travels as much as I travel, we decided to take a week off and go to Egypt for Christmas. When I saw the desert from the plane before landing, I already felt at home. The whole thing reminded me from where I come from. It was so great to see Egypt again. We visited all the sights in Cairo only, that we would be visiting together in the pilgrimage. I took a video camera with me and filmed them. I also filmed the flat where I lived in Heliopolis. I met with the travel agent people and spoke of how we want things to be when we are in Egypt. I don’t think the Lord sent me now in Egypt only for a break, but I arranged while there something very nice for all of us. I will keep this as a secret until we arrive there. I only pray that the evil one will not steal it away. The Lord is powerful and you will know why when it happens. Pray for that, although you do not know what it is.

So let us be all in close union with the Triune God and let us try even more now entering this new year to be more united in the divine love of God. The Lord’s blessings to all of you and the grace of the Lord Jesus be with you all.

Vassula