Constant Procession

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 distracti...

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...

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...

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 p...

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...

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...

Joan of Arc achieved sainthood for choosing God over Man. During the early history of the Christian church, the constant procession of humanity recognizing perhaps the errors of previous times did return to the roots of Christ's teachings and Joan of Arc gained sainthood. Another famous person, Christopher Columbus on the other hand has over time lost recognition for his acts of courage. His early...

In 1326 a cow herder makes a startling discovery as he tries to move a cow he thought dead. Also in this episode is a statue of the Black Madonna unearthed and a memorial built that brings even a King to request the Virgin Mary to intercede for him in his prayers to Jesus. It is but one of the many times people come to call at this site, translated into English as "Saint Mary by the Wolf River."  ...

During her life on earth, the Virgin Mary witnessed miracles as the Mother of God when he lived among humanity. She endured his dying on the cross. The Virgin Mary experienced the miracle of Jesus the Christ returning. And she was there to see the beginning of the Christian church. Late in her life, Saint Luke created an icon and/or a painting of her. Stories of miracles surround these images of t...

At night, from the site near Atlanta, Georgia, I spotted in the vista at my eye level a half-dozen or so red lights that would appear then disappear. What could this be? What did it mean? Then I realized these red globes out there off in the distance from my line of sight were the lights atop radio towers. Their constant flashing -on and then off was warning airplanes of how tall each tower stands...

My curiosity peaked, what had become of this site? I decided to drive out to take a look now that twelve years had passed since that day when Nancy Fowler had spoken to the 100,000 on-lookers. What would I find? Who would I find? These thoughts came up as I pulled over and stopped next to the front gate that lead up a long dirt road. Assessing my situation, I reflected on the fact that I had trave...

It was a fall day in the late twentieth century when my family traveled through a pine forest to gather along with 100.000 of our closest friends at "The Farm" to hear the words received by an area seer, Nancy Fowler. Though controversial even to this day, people from all over the globe had come to hear this final message Ms. Fowler received from the Madonna.  In part her message, as revealed, req...

Within this installment, the concept of messages of hope and of love, of praying as a way to unite us falls more closely into the ways that divide us. Bernadette finds herself under the gun for stating her beliefs, a belief in the Madonna speaking to her. Though initially embraced as real events she experienced, and though miracles start to occur, her credibility takes hit after hit and she is bro...

In the installment, two intellectuals on the run during WW2 can't help but notice the constant procession of people who were at Our Lady of Lourdes apparition site. Why did they come? During their time in hiding they soon found out!   There are forty-nine contiguous installments that run 7 minutes in length each and read by the author, Nikos Steves.   The author values feedback through the comment...

Previously in episode 4, I stumbled upon the film world embracing the Virgin Mary with an Academy Award! For that moment in war time the constant procession marched into Hollywood. 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 wi...

Previously in installment 3, I began to consider why some people go to church more than just on Sunday. I started recalling how many churches are named after the Virgin Mary in some way and I sensed there is an ongoing line of people who come to church daily that are unnoticed in our fast paced day-to-day. In this episode I begin to discover some curious paradoxes in the recent history during Worl...

Installment 3 In this installment the author writes: "I interview the Priest, a church historian and a woman who donated one of the statues in the church. This statue is a replica of the Virgin Mary that this kindly woman purchased while overseas at the apparition sight of 'Our Lady of Fatima.'"   The Constant Procession is a book, a personal memoir about the history of the Virgin Mary or the Mado...

This is the 2nd installment from the book and continues with how the author stumbled onto this endless procession of people requesting the Virgin Mary to intercede on their behalf to her son Jesus Christ.   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 minu...

The Constant Procession is a book, a personal memoir about the history of the Virgin Mary or the Madonna since she passed on. In this first installment I give some background about myself and begin "at the beginning" of why I started traveling this path. There are forty-nine contiguous installments that run 7 minutes each and read by me, Nikos Steves. I value feedback through the comments section...