Vassula is a fake mystic that is on the Medjugorje bandwagon
People who can be proven to be religious liars are responsible for the popularity of Vassula Ryden. She claims that entities from Heaven write through her hand and appear to her in visions. She is condemned by the Orthodox and Catholic Church. Fr Laurentin promoted her though she was known to have had messages fixed and then presented to the gullible as real messages from Jesus and who was given the honour of a condemnation by the Vatican (page 196, The Medjugorje Deception). Medjugorje supporters such as Father Michael O Carroll and Archbishop Franic were as bad though her heresy and absurd messages not to mention her use of the mediumistic technique of automatic writing to get messages from Jesus whose handwriting was very odd were shameless.
Vassula is intertwined with the Medjugorje hoax.
She went on Pilgrimage to Medjugorje for Easter 2014. Her trip was done in a spirit of disobedience to the Church which says that though it is okay to go to Medjugorje as a private pilgrim it is not acceptable to go as if you are sure that the visions are really of Mary. Vassula of course went overboard to treat it and promote it as a real place where Mary was really present.
She had a private meeting with Vicka the visionary. Vicka perused the
notebooks of Vassula which Jesus had allegedly written. She was delighted to
meet Vassula and hear her message. Vassula learned about Mary’s alleged message
from Vicka. Shortly after Vassula did the same thing with some Franciscan nuns
who were fascinated by Vassula's alleged revelations. Fr Petar preached the
following in Vassula's presence: “We are here at this Holy Place where Our Lady
has come.” After that Vassula said that Mary came to Medjugorje as Queen of
Peace.
After Fr Petar’s speech, Vassula addressed the audience by saying that Fr Petar
spoke about peace and that Our Lady came to Medjugorje as a Queen of Peace. She
finished her talk with quotes from Jesus in her own books. Vasulla wiped the
water from the leg of the sculpture of the Risen Christ as if she believed in
it. Even Medjugorje supporters usually admit there is no miracle in this water
flow though popular gossip says there is. Visionary Ivanka graced Vassula
and her followers with a meeting.
Ivanka said that Mary brought her dead mother to see her five times over the years. Ivanka said her deceased mother hugged her one time and said, “Dearest Ivanka, I’m so proud of you!” If Medjugorje is a hoax this is a very sick lie.
APPENDIX
An examination of Joe Nickell'S article: Heaven’s Stenographer: The ‘Guided’
Hand of Vassula Ryden
The article starts off by telling us how Orthodox Christian “mystic” Vassula
thinks that Yahweh and Jesus and her angel guardian Daniel move her hand to give
religious messages.
The first warning bell is that no Bible character went as far as to think their
pens moved by themselves.
She said that in her teens she used to see the spirits of dead people. If she
sounds like a Spiritualist medium manipulating Christians then that is what she
is. Despite Jesus’ ban on remarriage she got divorced and married again. The
Vatican officially condemned her messages in the 90’s. Bishops were banned from
allowing her to be hosted and from saying her messages really were
preternatural. She denies she is a medium but she would say that anyway. A
person whose hand is moved by other entities is a medium. It is called automatic
writing in spiritualistic circles.
Joe Nickell looked at the handwriting. He is qualified for he writes articles
and books on forgeries and faked handwriting. Notably he is a member of
International Association of Forensic Linguists.
Alarmingly the three entities mentioned have exactly the same odd handwriting!
And as Nickell says it is not really handwriting but like a “script that is
artistically drawn rather than naturally and freely written.” It is affected.
She slants the writing and makes it bigger than her writing which are both
recognised techniques for hiding your input. It is a “disguise ploy” as Nickell
says. The capitals are however written exactly as she writes them. Nickell
determined she always writes on lined pages as if the entity cannot write when
it is pure blank page!
Nickell quotes her message of January 25, 1987. Jesus supposedly writes, “I was
pleased to hear your prayer of surrender; in surrendering to Me I will lift you
to the heights and show you how I work; I will mould you, if you let Me, into a
better person; you have given Me your consent to become My bride, so what [sic]
more natural for a bride to follow her Spouse? I am glad you realize your
worthlessness, do not fear, I love you anyway.” My comment on that is that it is
affected humility – it is fake humility. She is even the bride of Christ!
Then there is God’s spelling errors: “work with Me writing down My messages”.
And the interesting “analising”.
The Vatican should use Nickell’s sentence, “Her automatic writings therefore are
not works of revelation but simply of pious imagination.”
Needless to say her disobedience to the Church and the authorities who are
qualified to assess her is alarming. And her followers are as defiant as
herself.
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Joe Nickell
Joe Nickell's photo Joe Nickell, Ph.D., is Senior Research Fellow of the
Committee for Skeptical Inquiry (CSI) and "Investigative Files" Columnist for
Skeptical Inquirer. A former stage magician, private investigator, and teacher,
he is author of numerous books, including Inquest on the Shroud of Turin (1998),
Pen, Ink and Evidence (2003), Unsolved History (2005) and Adventures in
Paranormal Investigation (2007). He has appeared in many television
documentaries and has been profiled in The New Yorker and on NBC's Today Show.
His personal website is at joenickell.com.