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O Russia, My Russia! January 2018 Issue 39 ISSN 1363 9358 MAGAZINE O Russia, how I the Lord My Russia! love you, Honouring Russian Orthodoxy 11th ECUMENICAL PIGRIMAGE September, 2017 This past September more than 80 prelates and 700 international pilgrims travelled in pilgrimage to Moscow, Russia in support of My Soul is thirsting for this the Christian unity so ardently desired by glorious moment, I mean to Our Lord. As the country of predilection so show My splendour and My dear to Our Lady of Fatima, Russia occupies an essential role in the TLIG ecclesiastically glory to every nation living approved messages, particularly in these End under these skies, through Times; through the Holy Spirit’s outpouring your sister Russia, I shall upon her, God’s light of holiness will spread across the world and strengthen the bonds of dress her with My beauty Christian unity (TLIG, message of October and with My integrity, and 25, 1992). I shall parade her to your 3 Presented in this newsletter are the many brothers so that they may letters of appreciation from Cardinals to Ar- see My beauty and My chbishops and from priests to laity that te- integrity through her and in stify to the overwhelming good fruits expe- rienced. In reading these pages, one soon her; daughter, the wedding discovers the impressions of a lovingly pa- of your sister’s conversion is ternal God who gently exhorts his chil- soon to come; dren to remain in the truth of Christ Jesus while respecting one another’s traditions. 3. The Lord here means the Roman Catholics. In his beloved Son the Creator and only source of life who breathed in us his Holy Spirit, unifies us, his children of royal descent. TLIG Messages, December 24, 1993 + Rev. J.L. Iannuzzi, STD About the Messages of True Life in God Messages are profoundly spiritual and are written in a clear and direct language. We are invited to enter True Life in God into conversation with God substituting Vassula’s name in Vassula was born in Egypt of Greek these texts for our own. Once having done that we are gently parents on 18 January 1942. She is led into the mysteries of the Triune God and begin to grow in married and has two grown-up boys. the Knowledge of God. Through the bounty of the Holy Spirit Although baptised into the Greek acting in us (Second Pentecost) we then begin to grow in God’s Orthodox Church she rarely thought Love, Peace and Unity. Jesus’ prayer to the Father (John 17;21) of God until 1985 when she began to “may they be one in Us, as You are in Me and I am in You, so receive Divine Messages. These have been that the world may believe it was You who sent Me;” will then be named, by Jesus Himself, True Life in accomplished. Jesus explains about this prayer on 10 December God. They have now been translated into 2001: “My words intonated were meant that the whole of creation over 40 languages and all the work has must be affected into a spiritual unity not a unity by a signed been done by volunteers; Vassula receives no royalties for any books treaty; to fulfil My Words the churches must seek first humility published. and love, graces that can be obtained through the Holy Spirit and through a great repentance;” In these Prophetic Messages (some of the prophecies have already been fulfilled) God is calling the whole of His creation to return In recent Messages published under the title of Odes of the Holy to Love while asking Christians to unify His Body, His Church Trinity, the Holy Trinity summarize the purpose of these Divine ( Messages: to rediscover the revealed Truth and to enter into the “Orthodox! Catholics! Protestants! You all belong to Me! You are all spiritual espousal with God, the wedding feast of Apocalypse One in My Eyes!”). Vassula’s mission is to go out and proclaim the Truth. She has now visited over 80 countries and has spoken in over Chapter 21. In that union of creature with God, God’s Will will 1100 meetings, some with audiences as large as 100,000 people. be done on earth as it is in Heaven, for we will find true Life, the life in God and with God. www.tlig.org TRUE LIFE IN GOD January 2018 · ISSUE 39 · ISSN 1363 9358 CONTENTS My Russia, how I the Lord love you! 4 HOW TO BRIDGE OUR DIVISIONS AND BRING PEACE TO THE WORLD (Cont’d) Vassula’s Welcome Speech 2017 5 Bishop Isidore Battikha 61 The 2017 Pilgrimage: A Success! by Jacques Gay 6 Archbishop Antoine Chahda 63 Bishop Simon Atallah, oam 64 Prophecies about Russia - TLIG Messages 9 Sheikh Nizam Boukhzam 67 Pilgrimage - Russia 2017 Report 10 Sheikh Muhammad Ben Mustafa Valsan 68 Brief remarks of Mohammed Mazharul Islam 28 Archbishop Martin S. Jumoad 70 Moscow TLIG Prayer Group 29 Sheikh Mohammed Ali El-Hajj Ali Al Amili 72 Russian Letter in English from Telesphore P. Cardinal Toppo 75 Metropolitan Hilarion 30 Dr. Alon Goshen-Gottstein 76 Russian Letter from Metropolitan Hilarion 31 Vassula’s ending Speech in Russia 78 Short Report - Meeting at the Russian LETTERS OF AppRECIATION Department for External Church Relations Words of appreciation by Vassula Ryden 79 by Vassula Ryden 32 Sujit Kumar Barua 80 Comments on the Pilgrimage by Fr. John Abberton 33 Fr. John Abberton 81 A letter from Fr. John Abberton 34 Sheikh Nizam Boukhzam 82 INTERFAITH PANEL SPEECH Sheikh Daneel Abdel Khalek 82 Rabbi Berel Lazar 35 Bishop Oliver Doeme Dashe 82 Abuna Elias Chacour 83 Rev. Dimitry Safonov 36 Metropolitan George Haddad Sheikh Islam Valitov 37 83 Bishop Markos Gebremedhin 83 Vassula Ryden 38 Sr. Betty Nakyanzi 83 Venerable Dr. Michel Thao Chan 38 Sheikh Iyad Abdallah 84 Mr. Camel Bechikh 40 Sanghanayaka Suddhananda Mahathero 84 HOW TO BRIDGE OUR DIVISIONS AND BRING Venerable Dr. Michel Thao Chan 84 PEACE TO THE WORLD Archbishop Selwanos Boutros Alnemeh 85 Vassula Ryden 42 Rev Father Peter Yates CSWG 85 Archbishop Antonio J. Ledesma, S.J. 43 Rabbi Dr. Alon Goshen-Gottstein 85 Archbishop Anil Joseph Thomas Couto 44 Sheikh Mohammed Ali El-Hajj Ali Al Amili 86 Bishop Markos Gebremedhin 46 Archbishop Anil Joseph Thomas Couto, 86 Archbishop George Abou Zakhm 48 Fr. Emilianos Aboumrad 86 Bishop Selwanos Boutros Alnemeh 50 Archbishop Antoine Chahda 86 Bishop Riah Abo El-Assal 52 Bishop Riah Abo El -Assal 87 Sheikh Daneel Abdel Khalek 54 Bishop Simon Atallah, oam 88 Rev. Fr. Teófilo Rodríguez 55 Mr. Camel Bechikh 89 Rev. Mariano Arellano 58 Archbishop Chucrallah-Nabil El-Hage 90 Sheikh Mohamed Ali Mostafa Khalik 59 Christ’s Agony in Gethsemane 91 Patriarch Sanghanayaka Suddhananda Mahathero 60 TLIG MAGAZINE ISSUE - 39 3 My Russia, how I the Lord love you! TLIG Messages, March 11, l988 Glory be to God! (after having read the three prayers I heard from Heaven Celestial Voices saying: Glory be to God; thus it was written.) Jesus? I am, I am near you, pray beloved for Russia’s conversion; Russia will be resurrected by My Divine Hand and at this peak of Holiness while My Hand will be posed upon her, warming her cold heart, reviving her, she will arise from the stillness of death and her world of darkness into My World of Peace and Light; with a loud cry she will manifest her joy beholding her Saviour by her side, I will lift her to Me and My Flame of Love will enflame her heart purifying her and leaving her in total rapture for Me her God, O Russia, My Russia! how I the Lord love you,1 how I wept to see you dead, I shed so many bitter and sorrowful tears upon you beloved when I lost you, and all Heaven was mourning for you, why, why My beloved had you rejected Me, piercing My Heart full of Love and Tenderness... (I felt St. Mary near me) peace upon you My child, I am your Holy Mother; pray for your sister for the Lord is by her side today and soon His Divine Hand will touch her cold and dead heart; O creation! the Lord will revive your Sister-So-Unloved, be alert daughter, for her time of her glory is near; Petro!2 My so beloved Petro?3 yes, Vassula; for years I have been pleading you4 to consecrate Russia, now the Lord and all the Martyr Saints have heard your pleas and cries, all your sacrifices were not in vain beloved, al tears were not shed for nothing, those tears were a balm for Jesus’ Wounded Heart; Praise the Lord, Petro, Jesus is at your very doors, knocking, peace upon you, peace upon you all; I love you all; 1 God was speaking again as no human can speak but God only; with so much love... 2 Suddenly St. Mary turned Her head towards John-Paul II, as if he was present; in pronouncing his name, Her voice was very sweet but sad, full of a special love for him. 3 St. Mary had tried to keep back Her tears, but could not, She said those words breaking into tears, She wept very much, shedding many tears and I started to weep too with her. I felt that Our Holy Mother had a ‘weak- ness’ for ‘Petro’. 4 Pope John-Paul II. 4 TRUE LIFE IN GOD Vassula’s Welcome Speech 2017 I’d like to give a warm welcome to all present here; good health, we all need to be loved.
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