{"id":148,"date":"2017-06-20T07:40:31","date_gmt":"2017-06-20T11:40:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nikossteves.com\/?p=148"},"modified":"2018-09-16T08:32:18","modified_gmt":"2018-09-16T12:32:18","slug":"45th-installment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nikossteves.com\/?p=148","title":{"rendered":"45- Ch 27; A Full Church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/iframe%20style=border:%20none%20src=\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/5457978\/height\/90\/width\/640\/theme\/custom\/autonext\/no\/thumbnail\/yes\/autoplay\/no\/preload\/no\/no_addthis\/no\/direction\/backward\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/87A93A\/%20height=90%20width=640%20scrolling=no%20%20allowfullscreen%20webkitallowfullscreen%20mozallowfullscreen%20oallowfullscreen%20msallowfullscreen\/iframe\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none;\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/5457978\/height\/90\/width\/640\/theme\/custom\/autonext\/no\/thumbnail\/yes\/autoplay\/no\/preload\/no\/no_addthis\/no\/direction\/backward\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/87A93A\/\" width=\"640\" height=\"90\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt;\">This installment is about the early days in Medjugorje. Things start changing in the village as more and more people came there.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt;\">Visitors would congregate in and around the church before and\/or after climbing up to the apparition site where the teens first met the Virgin Mary.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt;\">Some visitors wanted to go to confession before taking communion. Others visitors simply wished to linger or meditate and they chose to do so around the church grounds.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt;\">Before long, church services were offered each evening.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt;\">Gradually, even the villagers began to find themselves participating more frequently in these church services as well. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt;\">A renewed spiritual energy grew in the little village.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt;\">On the world front, President Reagan delivered his \u201cTear Down This Wall\u201d challenge to the Soviets and East German Government and things in Poland continued to heat up between the God-fearing workers and the Godless Communist regime.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Constant Procession is a book, a personal memoir about the history of the Virgin Mary or the Madonna since she passed on.<\/p>\n<p>There will be approximately fifty contiguous installments that run around 7 minutes in length each. They will be published every Tuesday morning beginning in August 2016 and read by me, Nikos Steves.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nikossteves.com\/?p=4\">To listen from the beginning<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I value feedback through the comments section or Better &#8211; via email at <a href=\"mailto:NikosSteves@gmail.com\">NikosSteves@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This installment is about the early days in Medjugorje. Things start changing in the village as more and more people came there. Visitors would congregate in and around the church before and\/or after climbing up to the apparition site where the teens first met the Virgin Mary. Some visitors wanted to go to confession before &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nikossteves.com\/?p=148\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;45- Ch 27; A Full Church&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nikossteves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nikossteves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nikossteves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nikossteves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nikossteves.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nikossteves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nikossteves.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nikossteves.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nikossteves.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}