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Vassula Ryden with Pope Benedict

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By Daniel Klimek, [email protected] 15, 2011Just recently this past week photos have been made available for the first time of an encounter between the Greek

Orthodox mysticVassula Ryden and Pope Benedict XVI. The newly released photographs show Vassula meeting Benedicduring a General Audience in the Paul VI Audience Hall at the Vatican in January 2008. Vassula is shown presenting theHoly Father with a copy of the True Life in Godmessages, a book based on compilations of Vassulas alleged

revelations (and transmitted messages) from God. For years, Vassula has made the powerful, albeit controversial, claim oreceiving personal messages (including prophecies) from God.It was a few years earlier that Vassula originally met then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, when he headed the Congregation f

the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) before becoming Pope as John Pauls successor. From 2001-2004, the CDF and Vassulapartook in a diplomatic dialogue in relation to her revelations and messages. A photograph taken in 2004, with Vassula anCardinal Ratzinger, at the culmination of this dialogue, is availablehere .Vassula, like any contemporary mystic, constitutes a controversial figure in the Christian world, including the CatholicChurch. The CDF was encouraged to dialogue with her, bringing clarity to her work, for a couple of reasons. One obvious

reason pertains to the faithful. While being Greek Orthodox, Vassula Ryden has a strong following among many Catholics well plus, her messages often stress traditional Catholic devotions like praying the Rosary and reverence for the Seat oPeter, the Pope as leader of Christs Church, in addition to emphasizing ecumenical goals like Christian unity throughout thworld Notification

Those clarifications, portraying a more positiveperspective of her work, have been published in a booklet.Despite the fact that I am very open to the mystical side of the Christian faith, believing that it works as a cornerstone forrenewing Christianity in our modern secular culture since people need to see that the supernatural, that God, is a realitof the present and not just a construction of the past I have been very cautious about openly writing or commenting onVassula and her case. Vassula Ryden has been an absolute mystery to me. I consider her an extremely enigmatic figure.

One that Im still not sure what to make of.

Vassula has influential supporters in both the Latin and Eastern churcheincluding such names like the great French Mariologist Rene Laurentin, perhaps Catholicisms most renowned livingMariologist. At the same time as with any mystic there are many influential Catholics who caution against Vassula anher movement. Interestingly, a

issuing a warning

There are many modern mystics, in the twentieth century and entering into the twenty-first, who claim to have experienceextraordinary phenomena like visions, apparitions, revelations and messages from God what are, in theological parlancmost often understood as private revelations. A few popular names that come to mind include Simone Weil, Adrienne vonSpeyr, Faustina Kowalska, and Maria Valtorta. []Perhaps the most famous of these (in the Catholic world, at least) is Faustina Kowalska, the Polish sister whose visions anrevelations of Christ in the early-twentieth century brought the Church one of the most popular devotions
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in modern Catholicism, Divine Mercy: as seen in both the liturgical feast day Divine Mercy Sunday and in the prayerdevotion of the Divine Mercy Chaplet.

Vassula is one of the few popular mystics with extraordinary supernatural claims who continues her ministry into thetwenty-first century. This blog entry is not a condemnation, nor a recommendation, of Vassulas work. If I have seemed toharsh towards her, I apologize, knowing very well that the TLIGmessages and Vassulas own testimony have beenresponsible for many conversions to Christianity, including to Catholicism.

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