Constant Procession

A Christmas Wish for 2026!  Think about having an entire season from BEFORE Christmas plus the 12 days AFTER to enhance and enrich your families season of Christmas in 2026. WARNING: Those Christmastime activities may distract from the realities of your intake of the news of the day...   There are links, photos and more about this on my website. Pray for the People of Ukraine. There are links for...

Happy New Year 2026! Even popular culture takes note of miraculous events. Here's a remembrance from Joe & Lauren Wells.   First of all, full disclosure, I will be reading excerpts of it from the news story by reporter Hollis as well as from the press release by one of the hero's employers.    This is a real event that took place last month on a Sunday evening, December 19, 2021. A married couple,...

"10 lords a leaping, 11 pipers piping, 12 drummers drumming and a partridge in a pear tree… Those lines, though backward are my way to help us remember there's still lots more joy to celebrate through January 6 th . Let your 5 senses come alive as the sensation of Christmas is everywhere." And oh yes, Happy New Year 2026!   There are links, photos and more about this on my website. Pray for the Pe...

"Two Angels" is an original Christmas story as Advent and the Nativity Fast conclude with the gift of Christ arriving on earth! My story Two Angels is about old friends on opposite sides a city, a broken car, and help from some surprising friends. There are links, photos and more about this on my website. Pray for the People of Ukraine. There are links for ways to support them on my website: Nikos...

This podcast during weeks 3 and 4 of Advent and the Nativity Fast offers some tips on how to slow down before Christmas! Plus a reading from the Christmas section of my book, "The Very Fine Light."   There are links, photos and more about this on my website. Pray for the People of Ukraine. There are links for ways to support them on my website: NikosSteves.com   And Also, Pray for those killed in...

This podcast begins the third week of Advent, the candles now are burning brightly! And people are progressing along the Nativity Fast in the Eastern Church. This week celebrates the event almost 500 years ago with an excerpt from my first book, "The Constant Procession," about the story of St. Juan Diego's apparition of the Virgin Mary in Guadalupe in 1531   And also there is the reading about a...

The four Sundays of Advent lead to the Nativity of Jesus Christ. The personal time each week with the Advent Wreath offers the time for opening ourselves to create a more meaningful Christmas experience. Plus a story about when I was in Hungary and went apparition hunting. Also in this podcast is a chapter from my book, "The Very Fine Light," This contemporary novel with Christian themes takes pla...

HAPPY THANKSGIVING WEEK! Thanksgiving yields to the first week of Advent and in the Eastern Church, the "Nativity Fast" continues... Are you seeking a more meaningful Christmastime? Where the challenges for readying the tree, pulling out decorations, and gift shopping can take a back seat for  a more fulfilling holiday season experience? T here are t ips for you on this podcasts' website page ! Po...

This week celebrates the Feast Day of the Virgin Mary's Entrance (or Presentation) into the temple.   She was just 3 years old at the time. Also in this podcast is a reading from my novel The Very Fine Light . The paperback, e-book or audio-book are available on Amazon just in time for the upcoming holiday season. There are links, photos and more about this on my website. Pray for the People of Uk...

An unpublished journal entry from the fictional town in my book, The Very Fine Light. Also in this podcast,  A Legend of the Pyrenees, a story that tells of a visit by The Virgin Mary to a boy in Heaven.   There are links, photos and more about this on my website. Pray for the People of Ukraine. There are links for ways to support them on my website: NikosSteves.com   I have written a contemporary...

In the Spanish city of Valencia during the 15th century a statue of the Madonna was made by Angels! Our Lady of Valencia is invoked by people in all their difficulties and afflictions. One church dedicated to the Virgin Mary is known as "Our Lady of the Forsaken." There are links, photos and more about this on my website. Pray for the People of Ukraine. There are links for ways to support them on...

Part 4 is the final installment and recognizes October 26, 2025 as the 200th anniversary of the grand opening of the Erie Canal! This is a special documentary I produced on the history of the Erie Canal 25 years ago with updates from 2025 and how it brought me closer to the Virgin Mary. During my movie shoots for over 25 years I continue to discover as I traveled to parts of New York State unknown...

Part 3 of 4 installments of a special documentary I produced on the history of the Erie Canal and how it brought me closer to the Virgin Mary. October 25, 1825, the beginning of a week-long event celebration that would be matched only by the ending of World Wars, Lindbergh's flight across the Atlantic, and the celebration of man's first setting foot on the moon.

Part 2- This is the second of four installments of a special Constant Procession podcast series to celebrate the 200 th year of the Erie Canal and how my creation of a documentary about the canal brought me closer to the Virgin Mary. The story continues with the person who took responsibility for moving the canal from a pipe dream into the waterway it is today, 200 years later. Someone had to step...

Part 1- This is the first of four installments of a special Constant Procession miniseries series to celebrate the 200 th year of the Erie Canal and how my creation of a documentary about the canal brought me closer to the Virgin Mary. During the movie shoots over a 5-year period I discovered that as I traveled to parts of New York State unknown to me, I found the Virgin Mary was always there. I b...

Part 17- This is the seventeenth and final installment of my first book "The Constant Procession." Ukrainian churches during the times of the USSR were kept alive thru immigrants to North America. Last Chapter- Apparition sites offer hope for a timeless mode of being and the "constant procession" continues… Listen from the beginning- Episode 461- Part 1 NOTE: These final chapters were written befo...

Part 16- This is the sixteenth installment of a free reading of my 1st book entitled "The Constant Procession." You'll hear it from cover to cover in 15-minute podcast segments! Medjugorje, does not come to mind as a vacation spot. But it has inspired visiting pilgrims to spread the Madonna's words. For young people, who have not lived more than thirty years, this area of the world is typically no...

Part 15- This is the fifteenth installment of a free reading of my 1st book entitled "The Constant Procession." You'll hear it for free from cover to cover in 15-minute podcast segments! The Virgin Mary appears at Medjugorje in Yugoslavia (now Bosnia and Herzegovina) in June 1981. Her earliest messages reinforce Gospel teachings by Christ on ways to live: "Love God and Neighbors, Faith, Prayer and...

Part 14- This is the fourteenth installment from my book "The Constant Procession." You'll hearing it for free from cover to cover in 15-minute podcast segments Time Magazine's proclaims 'God is Dead.' Situations around the world seem to prove it. Riots across the USA over the Vietnam War and Racial Injustice… A '6-Day War' in the Middle East. This history seems strangely current.  But it was also...

Part 13- This is the thirteenth installment from my book "The Constant Procession." You'll hear it for free from cover to cover in 15-minute podcast segments! Chapter 22 continues with the Virgin Mary and Sister Lucia: "If you pay heed to my requests, Russia will be converted and there will be peace.  Chapter 23- A Society Without God . Soviet demands include citizens watching each other and a ban...

Part 12- This is the twelfth installment of a free reading of my 1st book entitled "The Constant Procession." You'll hear it for free from cover to cover in 15-minute podcast segments! By the end of WWI, among those who died on the battlefields were the best and brightest of that generation. This suddenly created a vacuum of natural leaders across the world.  Nihilism followed and brought on the a...

Part 11- This is the eleventh installment of a free reading of my 1st book entitled "The Constant Procession." You'll hear it for free from cover to cover in 15-minute podcast segments! Our Lady of the Rosary, also known as the "Fatima apparitions" are some of the most amazing appearances of the Madonna to be witnessed by a wide audience of people from all walks of life. They occurred in Fatima, P...

Part 10- This is the tenth installment of my 1st book entitled "The Constant Procession." You'll hear it for free from cover to cover in 15-minute podcast segments! Chapter 18 goes into the apparitions at Our Lady of Lourdes with seer Bernadette Soubirous in the year 1858. These were years of heady times when the intellect and behavior of humanity was valued above those of the Holy Trinity. The Vi...

Part 9- This is the ninth installment of a free reading of my 1st book entitled "The Constant Procession." You'll hear it for free from cover to cover in 15-minute podcast segments! The Virgin Mary brings hope to Paris and the French people with the Miraculous Medal. Then the LaSalette Apparition. Pope John Paul II said that the Madonna's message there revealed that "Divisions are repairable."   T...

Part 8- This is the eighth installment of a free reading of my 1st book entitled "The Constant Procession." You'll hear it for free from cover to cover in 15-minute podcast segments this summer! This episode continues with apparitions of 'Our Lady in Laus' with seer Benoit Rencurel. Then the tragic years of blood during the French revolts from 1793-1830. A time when humanity believed itself better...