You won’t want to miss a talk for the 2020 Eucharistic Congress about St. Joseph given by Marian Father Donald Calloway. The pre-recorded talk, “Consecration to St. Joseph,” on the Diocese of Charlotte’s YouTube channel and on the Eucharistic Congress website, www.goeucharist.com.
Father Calloway, vocation director of the Marians of the Immaculate Conception, recently published “Consecration to St. Joseph: The Wonders of Our Spiritual Father.”
The book is recommended for people who want to deepen their devotion to St. Joseph, especially during this “Year of St. Joseph” in the diocese.“This year marks the 150th anniversary of when Blessed Pope Pius IX declared St. Joseph the Patron of the Universal Church, so this year is very significant,” Father Calloway said in an earlier interview. “I said to myself, ‘We have a real crisis today in families where the family has been redefined. We have these so-called “modern families” and there is gender confusion.’ I thought we could use a strong father to restore order to all of this chaos. I thought, ‘It has got to be St. Joseph.’”
After researching, writing and translating works into English over the course of three years, Father Calloway comprised the book drawing on the wealth of the Church’s tradition.
“All children resemble their parents. As our spiritual parents, Our Lady and St. Joseph, we are called to resemble them in virtue. I am hoping that people will walk away from this consecration with a great knowledge of St. Joseph and how much he loves them and how much he wants to protect them during these crazy times,” Father Calloway said.
The Consecration to St. Joseph emulates the Marian consecration made popular by St. Louis de Montfort, highlighting many of St. Joseph’s titles, privileges and heroic virtues.
— Catholic News Herald