Constant Procession

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, requested people to “walk in faith, live in full union with God and be ready for heaven. ” Excitement and elation filled the air that day, though it got lost on the local public as TV news stories dutifully reported on the inconvenience of traffic jams for area residents.

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 brow beaten by her religious community, jailed and threatened by the government and taken advantage of by tricksters... And then, we're off to a recent undocumented apparition occurring in the United States of America, at the end of the twentieth century. I travel to attempt to witness the publicized final visitation for an area seer.

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 comments section or via email at NikosSteves@gmail.com

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 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 NikosSteves@gmail.com

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 World War 2 in relation to the Virgin Mary. 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.

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 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 NikosSteves@gmail.com

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 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 NikosSteves.com blog comments section or via email at NikosSteves@gmail.com

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 or via email at NikosSteves@gmail.com