487- Advent, & Our Lady of Guadalupe

This podcast begins the third week of Advent and the candles are now burning brightly !

Make some time and head to a church to partake in the pre-Christmas services during Advent or the Nativity Fast… You’ll be glad you did.

Also, this week celebrates the event almost 500 years ago about St. Juan Diego’s apparition of the Virgin Mary in Guadalupe via an excerpt from my first book, “The Constant Procession”

Plus in this podcast is a chapter about a snowstorm rescue from my novel, “The Very Fine Light.”

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Pray for the People of Ukraine. There are links below on ways to support them.

Photo with text that reads as follows;Let us journey towards the Feast of the Nativity with joyous hearts! Fast no only from food, but also from hatred and fear. Bring forth goodness and kindness to all. Forgive, Be generous, In all thints, give glory to God. — **Image from: Nativity fast from acatholiclife.blogspot.com**

And people are progressing along the Nativity Fast in the Eastern Church.

Image of Mary, Joseph and Baby Jesus with Nativity Fast Prayer Challenge- Praying for Peace — Metropolitan Gregory’s 2025 Nativity Fast prayer challenge
(American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Diocese of the USA)

For More About this Podcast

Nativity Fast (It’s never too late to start)- Wikipedia

The Virgin Mary’s Role in Advent– Fr. Roger J. Landry

This week celebrates the event almost 500 years ago about St. Juan Diego’s apparition of the Virgin Mary in Guadalupe

Photo of the area where, note the arrow, is to indicate where the apparitions occured. — **Arrow shows where the Virgin Mary first appeared to St Juan Diego on Tepeyac Hill on December 9, 1531…**

A photo of An impression, perhaps of the painting made of St. Diego's tilma — The impression in St. Diego’s tilma

Excellent youtube video that documents all the key locations at the Our Lady of Guadalupe site in Mexico City- credit: mexocotlan tlaxcala

This book is a timely Gift for Christmas- “The Very Fine Light”

Background of river with bridge and the book image over this background for my book "The Very Fine Light." Also Text that reads "Find Book Title at Amazon.com" — **Preview the book for free! using this link to Amazon.com**

The story takes place during the time period from Thanksgiving to New Years in the contemporary (fictional) village of Canalville, New York!

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WAYS TO SUPPORT THE PEOPLE OF UKRAINE:

Ukranian Orthodox Church of the USA website uocofusa.org — UKRAINIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH of the USA

Donation details for giving to the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America — **Ukranian Congress Committee of America (UCCA)- from Roman Catholic Prayer Service in Atlanta on** March 28, 2022

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Constant Procession tells of key apparitions of the Virgin Mary since she passed on from the world and how she serves humanity through Christianity.

The origin of these podcasts began with my book The Constant Procession.

Constant Procession (the podcast) is published here every Tuesday morning.

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