{"id":1658,"date":"2020-03-17T07:40:48","date_gmt":"2020-03-17T11:40:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nikossteves.com\/?p=1658"},"modified":"2020-03-17T07:43:16","modified_gmt":"2020-03-17T11:43:16","slug":"188-thoughts-prayers-on-the-pandemic-our-lenten-journey-intercessions-of-the-virgin-mary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nikossteves.com\/?p=1658","title":{"rendered":"188- Thoughts &#038; Prayers on the Pandemic, Our Lenten Journey &#038; Intercessions of the Virgin Mary"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/13575992\/height\/90\/theme\/custom\/thumbnail\/yes\/direction\/backward\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/87A93A\/stats-code\/season17-04\/\" allowfullscreen=\"\" width=\"100%\" height=\"90\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I turn in open prayer to the Virgin Mary to intercede for us\nin asking Jesus to deliver all of Humanity from this evil curse the entire world\nis suffering from this Winter &amp; Spring and Lenten season of 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalshrine.org\/blog\/the-2020-lenten-reflections-series-schedule\/\">The National Basilica of the Immaculate Conception- Lent Season<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/Atlgoc.org\">Orthodox Lent Services- Live (Orthodox Easter 1 week later in 2020)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-2 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"926\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/nikossteves.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Prayers-fasting-works.jpeg\" alt=\"Graphic of cross with text that says Prayer, Fasting, Works of Love and 40 days over a purple cross\" data-id=\"1068\" data-link=\"https:\/\/nikossteves.com\/?attachment_id=1068\" class=\"wp-image-1068\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nikossteves.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Prayers-fasting-works.jpeg 926w, https:\/\/nikossteves.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Prayers-fasting-works-271x300.jpeg 271w, https:\/\/nikossteves.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Prayers-fasting-works-768x849.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><figcaption>Image from: https:\/\/stpeterstoronto.ca<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"218\" height=\"231\" src=\"https:\/\/nikossteves.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Easter831.jpg\" alt=\"Close up of Mother Mary affectionately holding close her baby Jesus\" data-id=\"411\" data-link=\"https:\/\/nikossteves.com\/?attachment_id=411\" class=\"wp-image-411\"\/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:57px\" 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>I turn in open prayer to the Virgin Mary to intercede for us in asking Jesus to deliver all of Humanity from this evil curse the entire world is suffering from this Winter &amp; Spring and Lenten season of 2020. The National Basilica of the Immaculate Conception- Lent Season Orthodox Lent Services- Live (Orthodox Easter &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nikossteves.com\/?p=1658\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;188- Thoughts &#038; Prayers on the Pandemic, Our Lenten Journey &#038; Intercessions of the Virgin Mary&#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-1658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nikossteves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1658","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=1658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nikossteves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1658\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nikossteves.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nikossteves.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nikossteves.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}