{"id":398,"date":"2018-03-06T08:40:28","date_gmt":"2018-03-06T12:40:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nikossteves.com\/?p=398"},"modified":"2018-09-15T08:23:42","modified_gmt":"2018-09-15T12:23:42","slug":"82-constant-procession","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nikossteves.com\/?p=398","title":{"rendered":"82- Lent, Easter &#038; Mary Pt 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/iframe%20style=border:%20none%20src=\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/6333309\/height\/90\/theme\/custom\/autoplay\/no\/autonext\/no\/thumbnail\/yes\/preload\/no\/no_addthis\/no\/direction\/backward\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/87A93A\/%20height=90%20width=100%%20scrolling=no%20%20allowfullscreen%20webkitallowfullscreen%20mozallowfullscreen%20oallowfullscreen%20msallowfullscreen\/iframe\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none;\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/6333309\/height\/90\/theme\/custom\/autoplay\/no\/autonext\/no\/thumbnail\/yes\/preload\/no\/no_addthis\/no\/direction\/backward\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/87A93A\/\" width=\"100%\" height=\"90\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is the first installment of a mini-series about getting into the Lenten season by reflecting on how the Virgin Mary\u2019s experience in following Jesus Christ towards his Easter Passion may be able to encourage us on our Lenten journey.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_403\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-403\" style=\"width: 175px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-403\" src=\"https:\/\/nikossteves.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Christ-appears-to-his-Mother-Weyden-175x300.jpg\" alt=\"Painting of Christ appearing to his Mother after his death\" width=\"175\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nikossteves.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Christ-appears-to-his-Mother-Weyden-175x300.jpg 175w, https:\/\/nikossteves.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Christ-appears-to-his-Mother-Weyden.jpg 373w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 175px) 85vw, 175px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-403\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Christ appearing to his Mother after his resurrection.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_405\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-405\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-405\" src=\"https:\/\/nikossteves.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Lent-4-300x162.jpg\" alt=\"Text &quot;Preparing for Easter&quot;\" width=\"300\" height=\"162\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nikossteves.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Lent-4-300x162.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nikossteves.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Lent-4.jpg 305w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-405\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">How can you prepare yourself for a more meaningful Easter this year?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_404\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-404\" style=\"width: 208px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-404\" src=\"https:\/\/nikossteves.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Lent-3.jpg\" alt=\"Interior of a row of pews in a church with the purple cloth of the passion spread down the rows\" width=\"208\" height=\"138\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-404\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Making time for Public and Private Prayer<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_406\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-406\" style=\"width: 248px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-406\" src=\"https:\/\/nikossteves.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Lent-1.jpg\" alt=\"Illustration with the word &quot;Lent&quot; at the bottom of a mountain and the three crosses of the Passion at the top with the sunshine bursting above\" width=\"248\" height=\"204\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-406\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Climbing the mountain of &#8220;going without&#8221; during Lent<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_407\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-407\" style=\"width: 281px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-407\" src=\"https:\/\/nikossteves.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Lent-2.jpg\" alt=\"Colocful Orthodox Easter Eggs\" width=\"281\" height=\"180\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-407\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Orthodox Easter Eggs<\/figcaption><\/figure>\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.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/newtheologicalmovement.blogspot.com\/\">More on Fasting and Abstaining from a Roman Catholic perspective<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/orthodoxwiki.org\/Great_Lent\">More on the Great Lent from an Orthodox perspective<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The origin of these podcasts began with my book; Constant Procession.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve read the entire book from cover to cover (Installments 1-49.) Each installment runs about 7 minutes in length.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nikossteves.com\/?p=4\">To listen from the beginning<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Installments since Podcast 50 are an extended series of additional stories about the history of the Virgin Mary that are not found in the book.<\/p>\n<p>Constant Procession; the podcast; is published every Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>I value feedback through the comments section on my website or better via email at <a href=\"mailto:NikosSteves@gmail.com\">NikosSteves@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the first installment of a mini-series about getting into the Lenten season by reflecting on how the Virgin Mary\u2019s experience in following Jesus Christ towards his Easter Passion may be able to encourage us on our Lenten journey. Constant Procession tells of key apparitions of the Virgin Mary since she passed on from &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nikossteves.com\/?p=398\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;82- Lent, Easter &#038; Mary Pt 1&#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-398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nikossteves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398","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=398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nikossteves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nikossteves.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nikossteves.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nikossteves.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}