Constant Procession

In this installment we find religious teachings and worship becoming illegal and removing "Sunday" from the week. Also a new calendar begins with "year 1" which is to replace the year "1793."

Militant upheavals and military conquests emanating in one country spreads across the world even to tiny islands far removed. And as for The Madonna, well as they say, the rest is history.

The Constant Procession is a book, a personal memoir about the history of the Virgin Mary or the Madonna since she passed on.

There are forty contiguous installments that run between 5-7 minutes in length each. They will be published every Tuesday morning beginning in August 2016 and read by the author, Nikos Steves.

The author values feedback through the comments section or via email at [email protected]

Benoit lived out her days helping build and grow the church that was established for the conversion of sinners as requested by the Virgin Mary.

Benoit is credited with the gift of getting people to open up about their lives, not so much to unburden their souls to her, but rather to open up to themselves.

Our Lady of Laus has helped spread the love of God through the intercessions of the Virgin Mary at this site ever since.

However around the time of her death in in the early 1700s, on the world stage tensions begin shifting into various power struggles. From the island of Tinos that is taken by the Ottomans to newly created Serbia, which quickly found itself overtaken once again by the Ottomans.

The Constant Procession is a book, a personal memoir about the history of the Virgin Mary or the Madonna since she passed on.

There are forty contiguous installments that run between 5-7 minutes in length each. They will be published every Tuesday morning beginning in August 2016 and read by the author, Nikos Steves.

The author values feedback through the comments section or via email at [email protected]

As we move forward along this constant procession is a growing awareness that the Virgin Mary has had an impact on the world of yesterday.

Diplomacy is her way.

For many, she comes in a gentle and graceful manner as observed by the various seers over the timeline of history.

And for me, a connected history begins to reveal itself as we meet "Our Lady of the Good Encounter."

The Constant Procession is a book, a personal memoir about the history of the Virgin Mary or the Madonna since she passed on.

There are forty contiguous installments that run about 7 minutes in length each. They will be published every Tuesday morning beginning in August 2016 and read by the author, Nikos Steves.

The author values feedback through the comments section or via email at [email protected]

The constant procession continues as a commissioned replica of the "Our Lady of Guadalupe" apparition's relic travels across the ocean to meet with destiny as the tables for change on the Mediterranean Sea come to high noon.

The Constant Procession is a book, a personal memoir about the history of the Virgin Mary or the Madonna since she passed on.

There are forty contiguous installments that run between 5-7 minutes in length each. They will be published every Tuesday morning beginning in August 2016 and read by the author, Nikos Steves.

The author values feedback through the comments section or via email at [email protected]

Saint Diego wishes to see his aged uncle and discovers that "uncle" has quite a story of his own.

And at this apparition site today, though surrounded by the hustle-bustle of a major city, this space is where people still come, almost 500 years later. It is a wonderful place of tranquility.

But in reality, once you cross the threshold of the front gates into the main plaza, the outside distractions melt away. Upon entering the grounds, once you get your bearings, the atmosphere changes and for me, once I got my bearings, I found myself right at home.

The Constant Procession is a book, a personal memoir about the history of the Virgin Mary or the Madonna since she passed on.

There are forty contiguous installments that run between 5-7 minutes in length each. They will be published every Tuesday morning beginning in August 2016 and read by the author, Nikos Steves.

The author values feedback through the comments section or via email at [email protected]

Juan Diego's task continues in an unusual manner. He finds himself picking flowers in the middle of winter. They include Castilian Roses and other out of season flowers. The Flowers are the sign (for the Bishop) he is told. Tell him everything and all you've seen. Today, as you look at the same hill, the people tend flowers there still.

The Constant Procession is a book, a personal memoir about the history of the Virgin Mary or the Madonna since she passed on.

There are forty contiguous installments that run between about 7 minutes in length each. They will be published every Tuesday morning beginning in August 2016 and read by the author, Nikos Steves.

The author values feedback through the comments section or via email at [email protected]

In this installment, the Madonna appears to a man in his late fifties who by his own account is a "lowly peasant." Her request to him is to visit with a Bishop, one of the most powerful people in all of Mexico at that time.

Juan Diego, like the Virgin Mary herself, humbly takes on the task. But Juan is more like us rather than the Madonna. He finds himself communicating between the human world and the sublime. Between the Mother of God and one of the most powerful people in the lands.

His attitude and his actions are both brave and common as he goes back and forth.

What would you do in his position?

The Constant Procession is a book, a personal memoir about the history of the Virgin Mary or the Madonna since she passed on.

There are forty contiguous installments that run between 5-7 minutes in length each. They will be published every Tuesday morning beginning in August 2016 and read by the author, Nikos Steves.

The author values feedback through the comments section or via email at [email protected]

In this installment we find ourselves back, after the conquest and destruction of the City of Gold, to the newly rebuild area now known as Mexico City.

The year is 1531, when an apparition of the Virgin Mary occurs to a native who is on his way to mass in the center of the city. Saint Diego answered a request by the Virgin Mary on a cold winter day as he journeyed by a stone hill that was on his path.

Today, almost five hundred years later a sprawling spiritual center stands as a testimonial to that meeting. And today the Basilica to the Virgin Mary called Our Lady of Guadalupe is one of the most visited spiritual sites in the world.

To Listen from the Beginning

The Constant Procession is a book, a personal memoir about the history of the Virgin Mary or the Madonna since she passed on.

There are forty contiguous installments that run between 5-7 minutes in length each. They will be published every Tuesday morning beginning in August 2016 and read by the author, Nikos Steves.

The author values feedback through the comments section or via email at [email protected]

The journeys into the New World are sometimes at odds with the best of humanity during this installment of the book.

The Constant Procession is a book, a personal memoir about the history of the Virgin Mary or the Madonna since she passed on.

There are forty contiguous installments that run between 5-7 minutes in length each. They will be published every Tuesday morning beginning in August 2016 and read by the author, Nikos Steves.

The author values feedback through the comments section or via email at [email protected]

A King, a Queen and a voyager all pray at the same chapel seeking the Madonna's intercessions to her son. Lost over time are the details of her involvement on the first voyage of Christopher Columbus into the unknown. The further they sail from land, the more his crew begins to doubt their safety. They second-guess his idea to search for this new trade route. The moral becomes so bad that Columbus starts loosing faith and looks to the Madonna for guidance.

Getting home from this new world requires supplies and they are not easy to procure for the long voyage back to Europe. Enduring a hurricane and with more storm clouds threatening, Columbus gathers his sailors and requests they all pledge to honor and thank the Virgin Mary should they make it back home. Lots are drawn and Columbus is tasked to return to the Wolf River chapel.

There are forty contiguous installments that run between 5-7 minutes in length each. They will be published every Tuesday morning beginning in August 2016 and read by the author, Nikos Steves.

The author values feedback through the comments section or via email at [email protected]