{"id":1515,"date":"2019-12-24T07:40:19","date_gmt":"2019-12-24T11:40:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nikossteves.com\/?p=1515"},"modified":"2019-12-25T08:25:33","modified_gmt":"2019-12-25T12:25:33","slug":"176-christmas-day-1-of-12-for-celebrating-the-coming-of-christ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nikossteves.com\/?p=1515","title":{"rendered":"176- Christmas- Day 1 of 12 Days for Celebrating the Coming of Christ"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/12517004\/height\/90\/theme\/custom\/thumbnail\/yes\/direction\/backward\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/87A93A\/stats-code\/season15replay123_5\/\" allowfullscreen=\"\" width=\"100%\" height=\"90\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">May GOD BLESS YOU as we celebrate the Birth of Christ coming into our world through the Blessed Virgin Mary!<br\/><\/p>\n\n\n<p>MERRY <em>TWELVE DAYS<\/em> OF CHRISTMAS-<\/p>\n<p>CHRISTMAS DAY &#8211; JANUARY 5 EVE!<\/p>\n<p>Best Wishes to You and Yours and Thank-you for listening to Constant Processions.com<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-377\" src=\"https:\/\/nikossteves.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/SignatureMASTERd-300x106.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"306\" height=\"108\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nikossteves.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/SignatureMASTERd-300x106.png 300w, https:\/\/nikossteves.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/SignatureMASTERd.png 606w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 306px) 85vw, 306px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Some links from other sites to give you ideas and history for the 12 Days of Christmas in an effort to extend and SLOW DOWN the CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY SEASON&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uscatholic.org\/church\/2009\/11\/more-days-merrier-celebrating-12-days-christmas\">12 Days of Christmas from a blog (U.S. Catholic.org)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/fabulous\/5071490\/12-days-of-christmas-twelvetide-mean\/\">The Saints the Roman Catholic community celebrations on the 12 Days (The Sun)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Christmastide\">Christmastide which includes various Christian observations (wikipedia)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1125\" src=\"https:\/\/nikossteves.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/merry-christmas-words.jpg\" alt=\"The words in white over an out of focus starlight evening that says 'Merry Christmas, celebrate his birth'\" class=\"wp-image-1497\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nikossteves.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/merry-christmas-words.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/nikossteves.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/merry-christmas-words-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nikossteves.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/merry-christmas-words-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/nikossteves.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/merry-christmas-words-1400x788.jpg 1400w, https:\/\/nikossteves.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/merry-christmas-words-1200x675.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><figcaption>Yes, let&#8217;s be sure we Celebrate the Birth of Jesus coming to World<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Think beyond today&#8217;s way of viewing Christmas, Start daily celebrations! Remember, Christmas Day is just DAY 1! <br\/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nikossteves.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Jesus_Gift.jpg\" alt=\"Gift package with the words 'Jesus is the Gift' writtn on it.\" class=\"wp-image-1493\" width=\"546\" height=\"419\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nikossteves.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Jesus_Gift.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/nikossteves.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Jesus_Gift-300x230.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nikossteves.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Jesus_Gift-768x590.jpg 768w, https:\/\/nikossteves.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Jesus_Gift-1400x1075.jpg 1400w, https:\/\/nikossteves.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Jesus_Gift-1200x922.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 546px) 85vw, 546px\" \/><figcaption>The Gift to give to keep in mind- Jesus walking among us to show us the better way to live<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:97px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I value feedback through the comments section here<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">OR- Better via email at <a href=\"mailto:NikosSteves@gmail.com\">NikosSteves@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Constant Procession tells of key apparitions of the Virgin Mary since she\npassed on from the world and how she serves humanity through Christianity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The origin of these podcasts began with my book <em>Constant Procession.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(An e-book copy of the book can be found here on the website.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Constant Procession; the podcast; is published here every Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;ve read the entire book from cover to cover (Installments 93-110)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nikossteves.com\/?p=516\">To listen from Installment\n93<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May GOD BLESS YOU as we celebrate the Birth of Christ coming into our world through the Blessed Virgin Mary! MERRY TWELVE DAYS OF CHRISTMAS- CHRISTMAS DAY &#8211; JANUARY 5 EVE! Best Wishes to You and Yours and Thank-you for listening to Constant Processions.com Some links from other sites to give you ideas and history &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nikossteves.com\/?p=1515\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;176- Christmas- Day 1 of 12 Days for Celebrating the Coming of Christ&#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-1515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nikossteves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1515","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=1515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nikossteves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1515\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nikossteves.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nikossteves.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nikossteves.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}