{"id":655,"date":"2018-09-04T07:40:38","date_gmt":"2018-09-04T11:40:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nikossteves.com\/?p=655"},"modified":"2019-12-03T12:10:19","modified_gmt":"2019-12-03T16:10:19","slug":"108th-installment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nikossteves.com\/?p=655","title":{"rendered":"108- Pt 16; The Pointy Edge"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/7002432\/height\/90\/theme\/custom\/autoplay\/no\/autonext\/no\/thumbnail\/yes\/preload\/no\/no_addthis\/no\/direction\/backward\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/87A93A\/\" allowfullscreen=\"\" width=\"100%\" height=\"90\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Part 16-<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Continues from my book <em>Constant Procession <\/em>with the breaking apart of the USSR&#8217;s satellite country once known as &#8220;Yugoslavia&#8221; before moving onto Chapter 28- &#8220;Immigrants: Safe Harbor for the Motherland.&#8221; The chapter goes into the results following the final apparition in 1998 by Nancy Fowler near Atlanta, Georgia.<br\/><\/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\">I&#8217;ve read the entire book from cover to cover (Installments 93-110)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Each installment runs 15 minutes in length.<\/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\">Tourism industry travelogues typically feature romantic\nlocations, historic sites as well as get-away destinations. When considering\nwhere to go in the world of travel, Medjugorje, a village located in Bosnia and\nHerzegovina typically does not come to mind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yet Medjugorje <em>is <\/em>the\nspot where a contemporary visit by the Virgin Mary occurred and some of the\nseers report she still visits them there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Why did the Madonna come to Medjugorje? In this podcast\ninstallment taken from my book <em>Constant\nProcession, <\/em>I explore possible answers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For young people, who have not lived more that thirty years,\nthis area of the world is typically not on their radar. For those who have\nlived a bit longer, there remains a dark mental imprint. A remembrance that\nrecalls brutality inflicted on people within this region as they experienced\ncivil war in the 1990\u2019s. Fighting caused by the breaking up of Yugoslavia. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For me, the news reporting during that period of the civil\nwar did little to help explain the confusing jumble of puzzling information\nthat ominously included atrocities, genocide and war crimes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yet this area is where the Madonna appeared. She offered to\nthe world a surprising counterpoint to humanities struggling. It\u2019s amazing to\nme that even during the civil war violence, pilgrims from around the world\ncontinued to converge on Medjugorje, which seemed to be located in the middle\nof the warfare. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And today on the world stage, Medjugorje increasingly\ncontinues to finds itself in the center of humanities continued need for help\nin our modern world. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At one point during the Virgin Mary\u2019s early apparitions, the\nseers mentioned that she would provide a dramatic sign for all. This sign is\nintended for those who believe in apparitions as well as non-believers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Since that time, efforts to document this sign, when it does\nhappen have matured. Thanks to inter-net technology, people from across the\nglobe can view a live camera feed at the spot where she first appeared, keeping\nwatch for this sign!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And also a recent development occurred when in May of 2018, Pope\nFrancis installed a retired archbishop to Medjugorje in order to help guide the\ndaily pastoral care for the millions of pilgrims who go to Medjugorje annually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While putting this update together, as I was re-checking my\nsources, I discovered to my pleasant surprise a double-bonus! I found the live\neye camera up and running and in addition also saw on the same internet channel\n(MaryTV) a live view of this archbishop, Henryk Hoser, offering the Sunday\nmorning mass to a huge gathering of pilgrims right there in Medjugorje! <br\/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"T8KIGOoDdb\"><a href=\"https:\/\/marytv.tv\/english-mass-in-medjugorje-5-2\/\">Apparition Hill in Medjugorje<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" src=\"https:\/\/marytv.tv\/english-mass-in-medjugorje-5-2\/embed\/#?secret=T8KIGOoDdb\" data-secret=\"T8KIGOoDdb\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" title=\"&#8220;Apparition Hill in Medjugorje&#8221; &#8212; MaryTV\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Also found in this podcast of my book <em>Constant Procession,<\/em> are observations about how the early pilgrims spilled out from Medjugorje and brought back to their own communities renewed spiritual energies and in doing so they too benefit humanity on local scale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And the constant procession continues\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Constant Procession tells of key apparitions\nof the Virgin Mary since she passed on from the world and how she serves\nhumanity through Christianity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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\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 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>Part 16- Continues from my book Constant Procession with the breaking apart of the USSR&#8217;s satellite country once known as &#8220;Yugoslavia&#8221; before moving onto Chapter 28- &#8220;Immigrants: Safe Harbor for the Motherland.&#8221; The chapter goes into the results following the final apparition in 1998 by Nancy Fowler near Atlanta, Georgia. I&#8217;ve read the entire book &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nikossteves.com\/?p=655\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;108- Pt 16; The Pointy Edge&#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-655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nikossteves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655","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=655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nikossteves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nikossteves.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nikossteves.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nikossteves.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}