St. Louis Marie de Montfort is known for his devotion to the Virgin Mary.
Plus in this podcast is a prayer for the Ukraine
Here’s a Ukrainian Church Community I’ve known of for quite awhile. They are seeking donations for the Ukraine. Mother of God Ukrainian Catholic Church, Conyers, GA
Some excerpts from my book The Constant Procession, on the Ukraine people in world wars, Communist suppression, and it’s religious diaspora. The Ukraine people are ‘stubborn believers’ in a most inspiring way.
Back at the end of WWII the victors with major armies, the USSR and the USA quickly became enemies. Concerns by the victors as to how to rebuild the defeated countries from both physical destruction and governing approaches quickly shifted to diverging philosophical ways to replace the Nazis political control of the lands it had conquered in Europe.
Recalling what the Madonna told Fatima seer Sister Lucia: “If you pay heed to my requests, Russia will be converted and there will be peace. If not, Russia will spread her errors through the world, causing wars.”
Before long for the broken eastern european countries, fear and intimidation overcame peaceful transitions and the liberties found in the more open western european countries.
Ukrainian churches and culture were under siege throughout the times of the USSR.
But the ‘stubborn’ Ukranian ‘believers’ who immigrated to North America kept Ukrainian churches and the Ukrainian culture alive in the diaspora during the suppression, until ‘The Ukraine’ homeland gained independence in 1991.
This podcast includes observations from the brief break from winter, plus excerpts from my book first book, The Constant Procession about the prayer request from the 2nd Secret of the Fatima apparition of the Virgin Mary and also a prayer for the people of the Ukraine.
St. Theodore of Tarsus, Archbishop of Canterbury and St. Egwin, Bishop of Worchester lived in England during the time when all Christian churches were unified as one body in Christ.
The Virgin Mary appeared to St Egwin in Evesham. St Egwin then built the Evesham Abbey, the 3rd great monastery of England.
Henry VIII had it destroyed in the 1600’s. The surrounding neighborhoods used the stones from the ruins for other building projects.
Today, the Evesham Trust is working to revive this forgotten wonder’s rich history.
St Mary Mazzarello had a vision of a big building filled with orphaned girls. She remembered this vision when St Bosco of the Salesians asked her to create the Daughters of Mary, Help of Christians (aka Salesian Sisters) to take care of abandoned young girls. It is now a world-wide organization.
While overseas last fall, I literally “stumbled” on the “Marian Column” in Old Town Prague.
The story of the Marian Column of Prague is obscure. It had been hidden behind the Iron Curtain for too long. The original built in 1650 stood for 300 years before being destroyed in 1918.
But the bravery of the people of Czechoslovakia and their demands for freedom during the peaceful “Velvet Revolution” in 1989, formed their new countries of the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
Thirty years later in June 2020, citizens of the new Czech Republic, their artistic freedoms of expression alive once again, combined with many peoples undying love for the Madonna and returned the Marian Column to the spot where the Virgin Mary once again, offers her love for humanity.
Marian Colunm in Prague Square todayMarian Column- Prague, Fall 2021Closer view of Marian Column todayDifferent angle of Marian Column
Lots More to this Story:
BBC.com- good history includes dying leader regret + documents atheistic country:
The only apparitions in the USA that have been approved (to date) took place when the Virgin Mary appeared to Adel Brise near Green Bay, Wisconsin.
From that time on Adel lived her life with joy, with humility and abandonment to God’s providence and reliance on the intercessions of the Virgin Mary.
The two stumps from the trees are under the alter in the Crypt chapel at the site (Compass News)
Sources for this Podcast & more about Adele’s Apparitions:
This Episode number 282 is the first installment of Season 22.
The intended content for this week’s podcast still needs more research before I can bring it to you. This created a hole in my schedule for programming that usually does not happen.
Then I read this news story on the website AJC.com by Reporter Henri Hollis. I think it should be called to your attention, if you have not already seen or heard about it.
The full news story by Henri Hollis is linked below as well as the Press Release mentioned in the podcast.
First of all, full disclosure: In this podcast I read excerpts from the news story by Reporter Hollis as well as from a Press Release by one of the two hero’s employers.
Here’s my new Christmastime story about old friends on opposite sides a city, a broken car, and help from some surprising friends. You’re hearing it first here on Constant Procession!
The 3rd candle of Advent couples nicely with the Nativity Fast, where the arrival of Jesus is getting brighter! Plus an excerpt from my book “The Constant Procession” about the apparition of Our Lady of Laus.
Benoite Rencurel and the first apparition of Notre Dame du Laus
Can you feel the gradual shift towards Christmas by the activities of people around you?
Also in this podcast is the story of the apparition of “Our Lady of Guadalupe” from my book, “The Constant Procession.”
This week also reminds me of December 7, 1941, when paradise was attacked in Hawaii at Pearl Harbor. Can you imagine how that day of Infamy thrust the USA into war with Japan and also Germany during WW2?
Fortunately for humanity this first week in December also includes the “Conception of the Virgin Mary” and December 9-12 also celebrates when St Juan Diego had an apparition of the Virgin Mary in 1531.
Ultimately throughout history, Christ’s Birthday season always continues.
Arrow shows where the Virgin Mary first appeared to St Juan Diego on Tepeyac Hill on December 9, 1531…The impression in St. Diego’s tilma
The 4 Sundays of Advent lead to the Nativity of Jesus Christ. The first candle begins the time for creating a more meaningful Christmas season experience than ever before.
Also in this week’s podcast, I’m going to include reflections from a time not overshadowed by Corona and Vaccinations.
Back to when it was the hustle and bustle of crowded stores and traffic jams that were our concern during pre-Christmas planning.
This episode includes a surprise while visiting a church in Nuremberg, plus a history of the Entrance of the Theotokos and, a way to cope with holiday shortages this year.
“Church of Our Lady,” Nuremberg, Germany
Front face of “Church of Our Lady,” Nuremberg, Germany
Side view of the church “Church of Our Lady,” Nuremberg, GermanyThe rehearsal inside the “Church of Our Lady” October, 2021Presentation of Mary in the Temple- by Fredi diBartolo
Links to more information about topics in this podcast
The story of Our Lady Victorious, as the name implies, has differing Marian roots from two churches with similar names. One from last weeks’ podcast Episode (274) while I was in Paris and the other from an early fall podcast (Episode 269) when I was in Upstate New York.
Our Lady Victorious Church in Prague
As for the people of Prague, there is a special connection that dovetails with a miraculous statue known as “Infant Jesus of Prague” which is at home in the Our Lady Victorious church.
Statue of Infant Jesus of Prague inside Our Lady Victorious Church in PragueOur Lady Victorious in Prague
Podcast sources & more about Our Lady Victorious, Infant Jesus of Prague and the Nativity Fast:
