{"id":2290,"date":"2020-12-01T07:40:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-01T11:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nikossteves.com\/?p=2290"},"modified":"2021-01-27T15:13:39","modified_gmt":"2021-01-27T19:13:39","slug":"225-constant-procession","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nikossteves.com\/?p=2290","title":{"rendered":"225- &#8216;Do Christmas&#8217; 2020 Style"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p style=\"font-size:24px\"><em><strong>Green Arrow = Play Podcast<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/17009543\/height\/90\/theme\/custom\/thumbnail\/yes\/direction\/backward\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/87A93A\/stats-code\/Season20-02\/\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"\" webkitallowfullscreen=\"\" mozallowfullscreen=\"\" oallowfullscreen=\"\" msallowfullscreen=\"\" width=\"100%\" height=\"90\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:41px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>This installment explores ways to take advantage of the hiatus from the usual holiday gatherings and shopping as we move into the 2020 Christmas season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For me the empty chairs around the dining room table during Thanksgiving is an advance glance at how the upcoming Christmas Day of 2020 could look, without our thinking of how to \u2018Do-Christmas\u2019 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Even during this pandemic, those empty chairs made me reflect on the prayers that were answered this year. It made me really appreciate what God has done for my family and friends.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Let\u2019s now turn our focus away from the world of getting \u2018Christmas presents\u2019. Turning instead towards the Virgin Mary and Joseph as they prepared for the Nativity it will fill the lack of socializing that the world in the year 2020 has been giving us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"block-24dcacaf-df5c-4e45-8a18-136a20c5fa3f\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nikossteves.com\/?p=2287\">Listen to Part 1: <em>Take Advantage of this Unique Tim<\/em>e <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"block-d2bef241-7e8d-4ed5-98d3-c56fa621ae17\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.acrod.org\/consecration\/prayerchallenge\/\">For more info on Metropolitan Gregory&#8217;s Nativity Fast Prayer website page:<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\" id=\"block-8743e3d4-26d7-486f-9dd6-e69f78f4ed53\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nikossteves.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Nativity-challenge-button-revised.jpg\" alt=\"Image of Mary, Joseph and Baby Jesus with Nativity Fast Prayer Challenge- Praying for Peace\" width=\"688\" height=\"523\"\/><figcaption>Metropolitan Gregory&#8217;s 2020 Nativity Fast prayer challenge (American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Diocese of the USA)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\" id=\"block-ad98d32e-2f2f-4555-a58e-437fcfca6995\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nikossteves.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/1st-candle.jpg\" alt=\"1st candle being lit by a small child on Advent Wreath\" width=\"701\" height=\"466\"\/><figcaption>1st candle on Advent Wreath.&nbsp; Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/frontierdreams.blogspot.com\/p\/about-me.html\">frontierdreams.blogspot.com<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>I value feedback through the comments section on my website<br>OR- Better via email at NikosSteves@gmail.com<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Constant Procession tells of key apparitions of the Virgin Mary since she passed on from the world and how she serves humanity through Christianity.<br>The origin of these podcasts began with my book The Constant Procession.<br>An e-book copy of the book can be found on my website:<br>ConstantProcession.com<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve read the entire book from cover to cover (Installments 201-217)<br>To listen from Installment 201<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Constant Procession (the podcast) is published every Tuesday morning and has links, photos, video and more information for each episode at ConstantProcession.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This installment explores ways to take advantage of the hiatus from the usual holiday gatherings and shopping as we move into the 2020 Christmas season. For me the empty chairs around the dining room table during Thanksgiving is an advance glance at how the upcoming Christmas Day of 2020 could look, without our thinking of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nikossteves.com\/?p=2290\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;225- &#8216;Do Christmas&#8217; 2020 Style&#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-2290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nikossteves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2290","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=2290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nikossteves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nikossteves.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nikossteves.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nikossteves.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}