Constant Procession

Saint John Bosco was called at an early age by the Virgin Mary who tasked him with helping orphans wandering the streets during the early days of the Industrial Revolution. His ways with the youth included fun and games and always learning the word of God. From whistling to singing, from confessions and communion, to education for better jobs, his mission grew and continues with the international...

This week's podcast takes another detour as the new year begins. It is about an event two years ago when a 100-year old Navy veteran, Bill Norberg delivered a lecture just six months before he passed, and the amazing way he kept focus in an unexpectedly chaotic moment. There are links, photos and more about this on my website. Pray for this war in the Middle East to end. Also, Pray for the People...

This second podcast of the new year offers a look at a personal experience in the world around us, rather than an apparition experience with the Virgin Mary. However perhaps it's more a recognition of the results we sometimes find when simply trying to treat others the way we'd like to be treated, as Her Son, Our Lord Jesus the Christ tasked each of us to do.   There are links, photos and more abo...

Father Benoit Haffreingue became an architect to rebuild a cathedral housing a miraculous statue of the Virgin Mary in Boulogne, France in the 1870's His goal was that the new bell tower be "as tall as a Prayer."   There are links, photos and more about this on my website. Pray for this war in the Middle East to end. Also, Pray for the People of Ukraine. There are links for ways to support them on...

"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 2025!   There are links, photos and more about this on my website. Pray for this w...

Merry Christmas! Time to start celebrating the '12 Days of Christmas' This episode includes an original story, 'Two Angels' Also, in this podcast is a reading from my book "The Very Fine Light."   There are links, photos and more about this on my website. Pray for this war in the Middle East to end. Also, Pray for the People of Ukraine. There are links for ways to support them on my website: Nikos...

During week 3 of Advent and the Nativity Fast are 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 this war in the Middle East to end. Also, Pray for the People of Ukraine. There are links for ways to support them on my website: NikosSteves.com   I have...

Can you feel the gradual shift towards Christmas with the start of the 2nd week of Advent? People are shifting their activities. Plus this week celebrates the apparition of Our Lady of Guadalupe from my 1st book, "The Constant Procession." There are links, photos and more about this on my website. Pray for this war in the Middle East to end. Also, Pray for the People of Ukraine. There are links fo...

Thanksgiving yields to the first week of Advent and the 'Nativity Fast' continues... Looking for a more fulfilling Christmastime? Where the hassles of getting the tree, decorations, shopping for gifts takes a back seat to a more fulfilling holiday season experience? Tips for you in are in this podcast! Start by lighting the first Advent candle and begin to set aside some time for personal daily Ad...

On a trip to Paris, I went to "Our Lady of Victory." This magnificent Basilica is where the Virgin Mary is said have been instrumental in numerous miracles for pilgrims over many, many years. Pilgrims have left over 37,000 plaques of gratitude that adorn the entire sanctuary in thanks to the Madonna for her help.   There are links, photos and more about this on my website. Pray for this war in the...

Venerable Father Nelson Baker, dedicated his life to helping others and had a total trust in the Virgin Mary. Together they built the amazing Our Lady of Victory Basilica in Buffalo, N.Y. He gave to everyone who came there and in addition to being considered for Sainthood, Father Baker would always say, "The Blessed Mother Did It All." There are links, photos and more about this on my website- Nik...

This podcast episode of Constant Procession is about St William and the Black Madonna of Montevergine. The Virgin Mary apparated to St. William, a Benedictine monk during his pilgrimage to the Holy Land. She tasked him to stop his trek, and build the "Most Holy Mother of God Monastery" on the side of a steep mountain north of present-day Naples, Italy back in the 12 th century. How could he or any...

The "Queen of Heaven" apperated three times to Adele Brice in Green Bay, Wisconsin in October, 1859. During the early times at the mission, they would receive amazing and continuous answers to prayers (large and small) in support of the work this seer was tasked to do. The "least" being an answer to urgent and intense prayers of the Rosary to the Madonna to protect the orphans as a raging fire tha...

Part 2- The Kurst-Root Icon. This is the second part of the story of "Our Lady of the Sign." It is about another icon called "The "Kurst-Root Icon" that was found one hundred years later in the ruins of the city once known as "Kurst." This location is now a part of modern day Russia. Also in this podcast, I read from chapter 17 in my second book, "The Very Fine Light." There are links, photos and...

Part 1 of a 2-part story about "Our Lady of the Sign" (aka Kurst-Root icon) an apparition of the Madonna in the Republic of Novgorod in the year 1170 AD.  Also in this podcast is a reading from the audiobook version of my book "The Very Fine Light" There are links, photos and more about this on my website. Pray for this war in the Middle East to end. Also, Pray for the People of Ukraine. There are...

The realities of getting around an apparition site in a different country is explored in this week's podcast. I visited the "Our Lady of Guadalupe" apparition site in Mexico City a number of years ago now. Recalling my experience in today's podcast, specifically getting there and also walking up "Tepeyac Hill" becomes more vivid as the years go by. The actual experience is a paradox of inspiration...

Part 18- This is the epilogue and final installment from a weekly reading of my first book "The Constant Procession."  It includes reflections I gleaned during the writing of the book and the feelings I experienced while visiting apparition sites where the Madonna has appeared. At her encouragement during these apparitions, people have experienced feelings of Faith and Hope and Comfort and Encoura...

Part 17- This is the seventeenth and final installment of my first book "The Constant Procession." Listen from the beginning- Episode 409- Part 1 NOTE: These final chapters were written before the current war between the Ukraine and Russia broke out. The time period I wrote about began in 1922 when the Ukraine was totally controlled by the USSR. In 1991, the USSR broke into the numerous independen...

Part 16- This is the sixteenth 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! 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 typ...

Part 15- This is the fifteenth installment of 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 Fastin...

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 Viet Nam War and Racial Injustice... A '6-Day War' in the Middle East. This history seems strangely current. But it was a...

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 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 attitu...

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...