 In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen Heavenly Father, we thank you for this time We ask you to bless us to bless our conversation that everything that we say would be pleasing to you and Fruitful for everyone who hears it. We especially ask this to the intercession of our Lady the great Saint Joseph and St. Maria Goretti whose purity was heroic little girl who gave her life To protect her honor and to prevent another from falling into serious sin And then asking that he also would be with her in heaven through all these great intercessions We ask you to bless and anoint this time We ask this in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. Amen. All right friends My name is Dan Burke and I'm the Founder of the Abba Institute spiritual direction calm all of that some of you know me as the former president of EWTN news and But I'm now doing the rest of the other stuff full-time I'm hiding out here in Colorado Mountains and we have a father Donald Calloway MIC who's a convert to Catholicism He was a wild man out of control and now he's a wild man for Jesus in control And he's a member of the Marian fathers of the Immaculate conception. He's the vicar provincial and vocation director and His cuba is communities in Steubenville, Ohio He leads pilgrimages around the world. He's the author of 14 books. He has 72 surfboards His latest book is the bestseller Consecration to St. Joseph the wonders of our spiritual father and that's what we're here to talk about today. Welcome Father Calloway Yeah, thanks so much for having me. It's an honor and a blessing and thanks everybody for joining I'm super super stoked that everybody's tuned in awesome. Awesome. Well, so father I'll tell you why the second your book came out. I told my team. I said, we got to figure out How to promote this so a few years ago? I had I was obeying my spiritual director who Basically threatened me that she was gonna drop me if I didn't start exercising every day So I started exercising every day and it actually saved my life obedience to my spiritual director Which of course I teach But I I was on the red mill and I started to feel a little funny. I went to my wife. I said hey Feel a little funny. I need you to watch me and so and then we ended up going to the hospital and Things got pretty intense from there on so I they discovered that I had a 99% blockage in my major coronary artery and So things got intense because I was just a fraction away from death, you know and Went into Surgery well, it turns out that that wasn't my only issue with my heart I had another artery that was blocked 60% and they actually showed me on the screen, you know because they had a They put the dye in and then showed showed you you know see how this where your blood is flowing very large here And then it goes very small here So they did one surgery and it was it was fine But they didn't for some reason didn't want to do the second surgery So I had a big speaking event in Florida about two weeks after the surgery with I don't know Teresa Tomeo Journey home my friend Marcus Grotai from Journey Home, you know and It was a full house and I had an So they didn't do the surgery on second artery. I was having angina events, right and then my blood pressure spiked in my My cardiologist said this is very grave. You need to go to the hospital right now. I said no I got a speaking event in Florida. I'm going to Florida and I just have this sense that God, you know, you only I mean We all know this right theologically, but practically I'm just gonna die when God wants me to die So so I just said I'm going to Florida. So I go to Florida even though I'm feeling funky great event a very holy What is her specialty? cardiologist had set up a meeting with a priest to pray over me and he has the gift of healing and so he prayed for me for about 20 minutes in a little adoration chapel there at Holy Cross Church in in Vero Beach, call Florida and when we were done we was done praying for me. He looks at me. He's a little V. He's a little Vietnamese hopefully I got that right priest. He looks up at me and he says You're gonna be okay He said need to thank St. Joseph. He he he has answered my prayer for you Wow, and And he had anointed me with oil and you can explain this once we get Going with you from the shrine in Canada. Yeah, so he didn't know I didn't know but he said you're gonna be fine So I go back fly back home and of course I go to the hospital. They put me on a new treadmill test They pump the dye in me and all of that but it was a more intense test in the previous one and Doctor afterward said you absolutely no blood flow issues to your heart. Wow, right, right and I said How was that possible? sort of I Don't know I was I was justing a tad, you know And he said, I don't know, you know, I said, well, I know why that happened So ever since then so the priest told me do something for for St. Joseph Wow Honor him in some way and honestly father. I didn't really know how to you know, I I We did some posts on spiritual direction calm which is quite a wide reach And but I didn't really know but as soon as your book came out. I thought oh You know this I can fulfill that promise to honor St. Joseph and To get the word out and to get to spread devotion to him through your work So thank you so much for doing what you've done. Oh, thanks brother. I'm not surprised to hear this I mean Praise God, you know for what happened there and that St. Joseph helped you out. I I even heard Well, it's about three four months ago now Bishop Rickin, I don't know if you're familiar with him up in Green Bay You know the great love for St. Joseph and he goes to the oratory you mentioned in Montreal every year and He said, you know, I've always wanted to do something for St. Joseph But I haven't known what and then the book came out and so he said basically hey, I'm a bishop I'm gonna declare a year of St. Joseph in my diocese. So that's what he did So people are giving thanks in various ways. Oh, praise God Well on my bishop or the bishop of our community of a possibly VA is Joseph Strickland Oh, he's great. And he has also been a huge supporter of your book He was tweeting about it Somebody told me because I'm not even on Twitter and somebody said hey, you know Bishop Strickland's tweeting about your book I was like what I said somebody show me their tweet saying whatever it is I gotta see this and I've been in touch with him since and oh, he's That that is a bishop after my heart. I love that guy You know, it's what's interesting about him and it relates to st. Joseph and what you're trying to do here Are succeeding at is that bishop? Strickland is a man He's not a coward. He's he's strong. He's clear He's with the church. He's not caustic But he's but he's very clear and and I just I I told him last time I met with him. I said bishop. You got to understand Every time you speak with that kind of clarity It sends a shock wave of grace amount among the faithful And they just get encouraged that oh, yes I can be a faithful Catholic and I'm not alone and I have a bishop with me And uh, we also have st. Joseph with us. So I didn't plan on starting out this way father, but tell us about the The canvas behind you Yeah, the image on the cover of your book show us your book again And tell us what what how and why you commissioned these particular perspectives on st. Joseph Yeah, it's it's it's actually a good way to to start into it because you know It was probably a little over three years ago That as a priest I've been a priest 17 years now I have just been seeing something repeating itself in various forms whether it's in The culture in the secular domain or even in the the church in the ecclesial domain And it's what I would classify as two things One would be a crisis of fatherhood Where we've seen so many situations in the world where 52 percent of all marriages now do not are all families now do not have a father So more than half a real crisis of a lack of fathers and then even in the church we've seen A lot of wounds in our spiritual fathers being being put on tv and sinful and criminal things and Now we've got a crisis of moral authority people don't feel that they can trust their priests or bishops So that's one of the things the other you know that I was hearing and seeing and still am in a huge way Everybody is you'd have to be living on another planet not to be aware of it is the anthropological crisis today People are confused You know, um, I mean parents some parents are doing horrible things and telling their five-year-old boy that he's actually a girl and work on that child's mind And this stuff is being promoted as though it's legit and we should be you know allowing this stuff to happen and allowing You know people to read to our children in public libraries that are you know living really really bad lifestyles and So much confusion. So the fatherhood crisis and this Anthropological crisis crisis of who we are in our sexuality as men and women. So that's why part of why I commissioned artwork on st. Joseph to address this in a visual way So we've got the book right that's going to unpack this stuff in writing and all of that But I wanted the visualization of this too because if you see this image here You don't see an ogre like you said you but what you see is a man A real man who is masculine strong And I would I would dare say chivalrous like a knight like a warrior holding the christ child and kind of you know In a position of like stop enough of this nonsense that's going on here And that's the the presentation that we need to to help men to feel Comfortable in their fatherhood to be leader servant leader sacrificial men And I think the more that we're drawn to that in society and in the church If if more priests start to have this kind of understanding I think we're going to get order when your house is in chaos and disarray in a mess You need a good father who's strong But loving and compassionate but strong to clean it up And it's a father who will be able to say to his children A honey, you know, I know the world's telling you this and maybe even one of your teachers is telling you You can choose which way you want to go but I as your father i'm telling you no No No, there's right and wrong. There's light and there's darkness. There's truth and there's falsehood We need to combat this crisis in fatherhood and anthropological crisis With the great saint joseph. I think That it's his time now His time has come to help us in the situation that we're in And you're not saying this in anger. No, you're you're not saying this Uh As a man who wants to dominate other people. Are you right? No, you're you're speaking to this From a proper as you've used the word anthropological and maybe you could explain that Yeah, a proper perspective or lens god made us male and female We are we are we are equal in dignity and value We're distinct in role and he decided didn't he? What those roles would be but but The differences in roles doesn't denigrate either and and you're not speaking against that You're not you're not looking to suppress anyone or to revive a sort of what's been called a toxic masculinity Right. Yeah. No, exactly. And that's where This is this will counteract that because unfortunately That oftentimes is what has happened in some of these issues so a lot of people are very um They don't they don't want a strong representation of men as masculine and therefore they call it toxic because they've been wounded by it They've been hurt by it and that that's unfortunate and that breaks the heart of god because that gift of masculinity has been used in the wrong way Whether it was by priest or whether it was by a biological father or a male figure in your life But if we want to correct it if you want to correct it There's a ton of other examples we could look to but the greatest example We could look to is the greatest father of all in st. Joseph So why go to all the replicas when you can go to the actual blueprint that's been set up for us? This man was the foster father of jesus christ. He was the husband of the virgin mary We're talking about a holiness here that is strong masculine, but it's servant He was sacrificial he laid down his life for those entrusted to his care That's the mold that we need to see in men today to correct This wound in families and marriages and in even in the priesthood is to is to look to the great st. Joseph Fascinating, you know, I had a strong father Um, he wasn't faithful. He did convert by god's grace at the end of his life And that was quite remarkable to I actually baptized him and then He agreed to see a priest which he hadn't before but He was strong. He wasn't a win. He I remember one time when I was a kid A classic moment strong father the effect it has on you He was a masonry contract. He was he grew up poor Ended up doing very well, but his arm was completely bloody and blood dripping, you know down And I I was just shocked as a little kid. I'm like dad. Are you okay? And he's like He's like, oh, yeah, I didn't know was you know, I don't you know And it was so helpful to me. I wonder father in terms of I I've been blessed You know on the other side of my family my mom's side lover dearly still alive, but I You know the mother I found more comfort in Mary in terms of of healing some of those mother issues How do you think this? Proposals that you're bringing forward For a deeper engagement with With st. Joseph can can heal wounds of men Or even women Who've had weak fathers or fathers who didn't teach them What right or wrong or didn't hold them accountable in a good and holy way Yeah, I I think this is a missing link in a certain sense because I mean if you if people are familiar with my story, I mean I had three fathers before I was 10 years old You know, my my mother was in and out of marriages and and none of my fathers were st. Joseph I mean they were not in a great virtue Um now the third one my stepfather now. He's he's a great man. I mean he's he's my joseph in many ways He adopted me. He's a tremendous man. Um, but I think there's so many wounds for people When it comes to this issue just the other day I was talking uh with uh, joseph chambra He's a man who came out of the homosexual lifestyle and he was really entrenched in it I mean shocking things that he was involved in but he talks about that father wound That he had and his resistance, you know to it But now he is a great promoter of st. Joseph because he sees in st. Joseph A father who's never going to hurt him harm him is always there for him who's a protector a defender of him and You know, I do a lot of ministry with women who are in You know really either horrible marriages or they've got father wounds of their own And I can tell you that so many women when they don't get that loving affirmation in their formative years They end up very insecure Very insecure and longing for affirmation So that sometimes they don't pick the greatest guy to marry because that guy may just tell her what she wants to hear But she hasn't really thought it through and then it ends up problematic down the road or or she's just throwing herself out there wildly Which is what we have a lot today, right? The girl's gone wild stuff Because there was such a wound with her father that he wasn't there. He wasn't affirming or god forbid He was abusive either emotionally, you know sexually or something god forbid horrible But that that that hurts a girl's heart a girl's heart is very sensitive and when that wound is inflicted by a father You're gonna you're gonna you know as we say with a poison the remedy is always very close Just like with poison ivy, right? Not far from that bush is the remedy that if you Put it on you it heals you from from that itch And there's so many other examples like you know the snake bites for example if you get bit by a snake What's gonna heal you? Well the same thing, you know, what's gonna make it? Well, don't run from the father wound It go to the father It's named joseph to find healing and comfort and the best of all fathers That's the gift that he is for us for all of us, you know, uh joseph chamber is a friend and I I just recently Did a show with him as well and I So he speaks as you noted about his venture into homosexuality Now his dad was a good man, but there were issues there. Yeah um a god rest his soul So for him the the absence of a strong father led him seeking a father, do you are you aware of a similar pattern in women to You know in sort of the the realm of transgender or lesbianism or things like where people are struggling with their identity Am I a woman? Why do I like women? You know, whatever Is this is there the similar problem? With women as joseph describes with men. Do you are you aware of that? Yeah, there is it's funny you bring that up because he was actually telling me about that very thing in our conversation the other day And I think that he actually has some statistics on it. It's either some sociological survey or what psychologists have written about in papers That uh, yes a lot of women who end up becoming, you know, homosexual Or, you know, whatever those classifications are today. There's so many things, you know that you can call things today um That they're generally tends to be some kind of father wound there that they were either and oftentimes Either by their father or a male figure in their life Abused on some some level that made them go down this particular path and many of them acknowledge it But some of them fight it But when they finally surrender to it, they realize that that is a part of it Yeah, and I think even, you know, when you think of abuse people think of sexual But there's also an abuse that's an absence of, you know, taking responsibility Right when you have a strong father Uh, and you have a figure of a father. It also helps you with your understanding of who god is and when you Even it even if you have a a good provider or somebody but but somebody doesn't have a strong spiritual foundation Who's clear about, you know, what the world is all about who god is who you are it can really Make it can blur reality for us And it causes as as, you know, common language now the father wound or the mother wound It causes wounds in us that we seek to remedy through Destructive means right Yes, well, exactly. I think You know my story again, that's what happened to me and you know, I don't blame it on my parents or anything I have made my own choices, but those were very formative years for me And um, I wanted, you know, the examples that I was given when I was growing up was what I would call rabid heterosexuality You know, I had men in my life whether This father or father number two or my uncle or my grandfather That just were trying to score so to speak ladies. That's what that's what I observed in my formative years And so in seeing that example That's what I thought that it meant to be a man And so I I you know, like father like son the cliche says Um, and so I wanted to to imitate that but that was a horrible example But I followed through on it and I imitated them until I got that divine two by four that knocked some sense into me You know, yeah, father. Well, so let's talk let's talk about your book and um The timing of your book And you're you're frozen at the moment. I don't think I'm frozen. Am I yeah, you're frozen to me Yeah, oh good. Okay. We're back. I think we're back Okay um, so let's talk about the timing of your book and we've hinted a bit at the time and and but I think you froze again, Dan. I can't I can't hear you You froze and everybody in their little images froze. I don't know if anybody can hear me Yep, they can somebody's waving good. Okay nodding ahead But I can't hear a thing My buddy Giuseppe says I didn't freeze But I can't hear Dan at all huh Well, I'll just keep talking. I don't know. Maybe Dan will come back on Um, so you guys somebody wave if you can hear me Okay, everybody that I can see just wait fantastic. All right. So I'm just going to pick up where Dan left off I guess he'll jump back on so the timing of the book he was asking Yeah, the timing I I did not anticipate that things were going to go the route that they have in the world with um You know the whole stuff that came about with the coronavirus and all that stuff Nor did I anticipate the civil unrest I don't think anybody did that we're experiencing now That's gone to kind of almost complete chaos in the streets now with all the stuff that we're seeing um But again, even though that wasn't the intention when I put the book together because I didn't know what was going to happen The intention was to help heal families and to bring about a renewal in families society and the priesthood Uh and all of that but I think this I think st. Joseph also is The answer to all of the unrest that's happening in the world the sense of revolution that's in the air Because it certainly is as I go to prayer and I watch tv I'm seeing this and I'm thinking to myself my my what is going on here. Um, we need a a Gift from god. We need a movement from god to get us back and and you know, I talk about In the book that there have been prophecies That have spoken about a forthcoming time in the church that would be very very difficult There where people would struggle greatly And some of these prophecies date back to the 16th century, but they're even more recent ones 19th century spain A particular saint has talked about that how You know, we really need um saint joseph to help us in this time and especially right now because At the root of all of this as sister lucía dos Santos said, you know, the longest live visionary of fatima She said that the final battle Between good and evil would be over marriage and the family And we're seeing that play out because there's so many things that go with that For example contraception abortion So-called homosexual marriage So many things the gender confusion that we're seeing today. These are marriage and family issues We've we've had whole societies and cultures now redefine marriage Well, how do we get out of this mess? How do we you know recover lost ground and go back to common sense and reason when it comes to these things Now we've all I mean most of you I I would assume watching this you're you're you're Pathlet, you love jesus christ. You've been baptized great Most of you probably have given your stand your back, but I was just picking up where you left off, buddy So I keep going I okay. All right. All right. This is where I wanted to go Yeah, so yeah, so Many of you probably have done a marion consecration, which is fantastic One of the best things that you can do for your spiritual life without a doubt But see in a time of crisis with families We need to close the gap and bring in the father And that's why I think that the holy spirit is now telling us as as a people as a church That now is the time of st. Joseph And this is why I think this treasure hasn't been fully revealed until now It's definitely part of divine revelation But we haven't really been able to unpack it Um until recent and so this has only been happening for like the last 150 years And I could go through the litany which I'll spare you the time But in the book at the beginning in the introduction I do a chronological list of what's been building Snowballing gaining momentum and it's crescendoing right now with st. Joseph. I mean it big time So in 1870 Is when it began and that's 150 years ago by the way We're in the anniversary year right now. So that's when bless of pope pious the night declared st. Joseph the patron of the universal church That's he that's huge And then right after that we get st. Joseph appeared in an apparition which is almost unheard of He appeared at knock ireland classic form. He didn't say anything. You know, nobody did it knock the knock Um, so they were imitating st. Joseph in that apparition. I guess you could say um So then after that we get the first encyclical on st. Joseph. It's hard to believe That it took until 1889 To get an encyclical on st. Joseph And that was pope leo the 13th who did that and then right after that we get the phatoma apparitions where st. Joseph was present Uh on a very neglected aspect of the phatoma apparitions. I think Uh, and then we get the litany of st. Joseph approved. We get um st. Joseph's name and the holy mass I mean, this is almost embarrassing. Especially as a priest to say it took 1,962 years for joseph's name to go into the holiest of all prayers the holy mass 1,962 years. So is st. joseph the mirror of patience? Yeah Right. I mean, wow. So now his name is in all the eucharistic prayers And we have a new feast for him in 1955 st. Joseph the worker to help combat communism And we're seeing this stuff now seven diocese in united states as a fruit of this Have declared a year of st. Joseph. bishops ricken is one of them, but there are six others And it continues to something is happening The holy spirit is saying pay attention to joseph Pay attention to joseph. We've had some of the greatest saints to promote him In our times, you know saying andre beset dan whom you mentioned at the beginning of montreal and um So something is up guys And that's one of the main reasons why I put this together was to Close the circle in a time of crisis of families and marriages And bring in, you know the the man to the situation who's been so neglected so undervalued and not paid enough attention to Because we've never needed a more to help us uh during these difficult times You know, you couldn't have said it better and it's For every difficult time and every difficulty we face in the church the lord raises up saints And uh, he both reproposes if you will or re Repromotes or lifts up some from the past or Brings up new saints in the present And I think you're right. I was struck by pope francis's move to bring St. Joseph forward But before my own encounter with st. Joseph in my own healing I was also struck by the Devotion that st. Teresa of Abulah Had to Of course My uh, she's my confirmation saint and and I really think brought me into the church I was actually Confirmed and received not by my own doing on the feast of our lady of moch caramel Which is kind of thrusting me into caramelites spirituality But I'd like to read a A few quotes from st. Teresa about st. Joseph That I think you're you're bringing out in your book She said in one quote. I took for my patron and lord the glorious st. Joseph I cannot call the mind that I've ever asked him at any time for anything. He is not granted I'm filled with amazement when I consider the great favors god has given to me through this blessed saint And of course, if you know the history there she named her first Convent after she left the incarnation Just outside of Abulah and left the ancient caramelites to start the reform caramelites and her first I'll give one more quote and you can you can comment to other saints and this is from her life To other saints our lord seems to have given power to succour us in some special necessity But to this glorious saint I know by experience He has given the power to help us In all our lord would have us to understand that he asked he was subject to st. Joseph on the earth So jesus was subject to st. Joseph on the earth For st. Joseph bearing the title of father and being his guardian could command him So now in heaven our lord grants all his positions. I have asked others to recommend themselves St. Joseph and they too know the same thing by experience So tell us tell us a bit about And and and I went out so I I think what I missed was your why now, which is so important, but tell us a bit about uh The framework that you used To build this congregation to st. Joseph and then where you got your inspirations for each of the Reflections on him. Yeah. Yeah. No great question, dan And you know just piggybacking on what you said about st. Teresa of Avila It is fascinating, isn't it that her favorite saint st. Joseph Was the one that she relied upon when she brought about a great reform And I I think again the holy spirit is telling us Just like st. Teresa of Avila did you know in the 16th century We also are in great need of reform today on many levels. So we need to go to joseph, you know In a big way it works. It really works So yeah, so the the book itself You know when I was thinking about a method for it I had a certain idea and I spent about three months working on it and then in prayer I just got so frustrated and I said to the lord, you know what my idea is not working This book is not going to make sense and I threw away basically everything that I had written down three months And so I prayed What do you want me to do god? How do you want me to organize this thing? So I it just dawned upon me a holy spirit moment You know, why am I trying to reinvent the wheel? st. Louis de monfort already totally nailed the method for marrying consecration 33 days You do readings and prayers Just base it on that and so I was like duh, you know, that's that's brilliant Why am I you know pulling my hair out here trying trying to come up with my own thing? But then I did have a dilemma because you know st. Louis de monfort bases his off of you know the the doctrines and at that time what were the two um The uh the dogmas that uh, he he knew about with our lady because the immaculate conception and the assumption dogma came after st. Louis de monfort's death Uh, but they were you know, doctrinally understood So I didn't have that with st. Joseph. You know, the church doesn't have like doctrinal formulations for st. Joseph like we do for our lady So I thought to myself, okay, I know the method But what's the meat of the book like how what do I base it off of? So I said, all right, you know what let me let me pray about it And I was praying the litany of st. Joseph every day asking for inspiration Well, one day I looked at it and I thought hold on a minute And I said one two three four five six seven eight I counted up the titles in the litany and I said there it is the template for the book This is what the church actually teaches about st. Joseph these titles Let's use the litany unpack them and then put other stuff on it like what saints have said Popes have said shrines about st. Joseph. What mystics have said what? Religious communities have been founded to to honor st. Joseph all that and it just worked out brilliant And so yeah, it's a 33 day program that you can do by yourself Or as a couple as a family as a parish and everything that you need for it is in one book There's no separate manuals or anything. It's all in here the group even the group format is in the book in the back Um, yeah, and it's it's only been out for a little over five months And we've sold over 130,000 copies Wow, that's awesome. Yeah, it's it's unbelievable. I'm like, holy moly. How are people even finding out? I get people contacting me from South Africa and New Zealand and Singapore and I'm like, wow It's praise god. I mean it's it's catching on That's great. So I want to tell folks We are going to be taking questions in a minute. So if you want to I'll have Ali turn the chat back on and you can start typing your questions but father, I'd like you to speak as a father as a You know from the heart of a pastor To a couple of things one those who've had wounds inflicted by their fathers whether they're Maybe the the lesser their weak fathers Maybe the worst their abusive fathers What can they how can they Embark on this consecration And engage with st. Joseph that can bring healing Maybe remedy some of their perception Of god the father through distorted lens of the one who was supposed to in essence represent God the father to them How can how can they engage in this? beautiful consecration to bring healing To their own hearts and then maybe broader intentions about Society Yeah, yeah, well, you know, it I think his in his titles We find who he is So some of those titles for us are so endearing They're so Affectionate they're so tender for a man of such great strength. Remember, he's also the terror of demons That's one of his titles. It's my particular favorite as a guy had I gravitate towards that. That's that's my dad You know, don't mess with my dad But at the same time a man who has such authority who can hold god in his hands And also with such strength is also very tender He uses that authority in the right way He is never going to hurt you or harm you. He's available 24-7. He's a comforting father So in that litany of st. Joseph, for example, one of his titles is comfort of the afflicted Now it is so comforting to know that you have a father Who is always there for you at any time Any moment of your life to share that with you to be present for you I mean that you know is extraordinary gift for us to know Another one of his titles is the solace of the miserable I mean, I I know a lot of miserable people today I really do and a lot of it isn't of their own choosing. They've been hurt. They've been harmed I know a lot of people today who are out of work and they're worried They're anxious. They're fearful about the future because of the the world situation Well, he's he's that comfort. He's that solace in a miserable situation So no matter what, you know, our experience has been and oftentimes it can be very strong We've got st. Joseph. We've got the man that when god the father was looking for a man To to entrust the care of his son to He looked at st. Joseph and he said that's the one that's the one that's going to be there for my son to model me This is god the father saying this feel to model me my fatherhood for my eternal son I mean, what a blessing to have. I mean, we you couldn't get a better dad You couldn't get a better one. And so, you know, when I discovered this myself years ago I mean, I just I said st. Joseph help me because I've I've got a lot of you know, things that I've been hurt hurt by My fathers and I need healing myself. You know, I'm not perfect. This is a process a lifelong process help me not to live Imitating some of those bad things that were given to me that were shown to me things that I should not have seen As a young boy that really warped me and I'm still healing from you know, I have my big conversion But I'm still healing from many of these things And when I run to joseph when I go to joseph It really does help me it keeps me from going down the path of a vice Just driving to acquire virtue And st. Joseph's name by the way, I love this. I love this. I didn't know this until I did my research The name joseph means increase Your spiritual father is the increasing He's going to increase the presence of jesus in your life. He's going to increase the presence of our lady in your life He's going to increase increase the the the grace and virtue in your life And that's how we're going to grow. That's how we're going to you know Heal and that's how we're going to grow in holiness you know, I I By god's grace my kids are Are doing well You know, there's still uh one who's trying to figure things out But now I head up a community of of several thousand participants from around the world apostolate va and I Regularly kneel before the statue of st. Joseph at the cathedral Of st. Paul and in birmingham, which is there's a beautiful statue And I ask him to be a father to me and to be and to help me to be a better father So, you know, if wherever your wounds are, you know, if your father was weak or abusive you know, just pray and in prayer Use these beautiful images that uh, father calloway is has Commissioned, you know, or that's on the front of his book and just ask him You know be a father to me and help me to know what a true father is and help me to know god the father And the goodness through you. So father calloway We have a lot of questions and so what I'd like to do Is read them to you and and there's uh, of course, they need to get the book And order consecration to st. Joseph the wonders of our spiritual father by father don't calloway And that'll answer a lot of questions. But If we could Do some quicker answers just to make sure we get through all the questions And not that you've been too long. You've been perfect so far But I want to make sure we answer as many of these questions as we can So jena asks can you do the consecration more than once in a year? Oh, sure. Yeah, absolutely. There's a chart in the book that shows you some options Feel free. Um, and by the way, there's a great website that's set up that gives you a lot of this if you want to check it out It's consecration to st. joseph.org Um, is it spelled out saint or is it st. Joseph? Yeah, it's just st. Don't spell out saint Thank you dan for that. So it's consecration to st. joseph.org Okay, and I'm gonna uh I just put it in there. I hope I think that I think I got it right, but uh So in that list, well, of course the book lists the dates that they can use Yeah, those are options. You can do your own dates as well. Yeah In our community, we pray to st. Joseph in several ways st. Joseph father of the church When we're praying for the pope bishops cardinals leaders deacons all of that religious And we pray for you every day by the way, uh in that in that prayer Then we also pray St. Joseph is part of a prayer and he comes under the title of terror of denium demons So angela asks can you talk about st. Joseph as the terror of demons? And how that can be relevant moniker in relation to him for this particular time? Oh, yes So nobody seems to know the exact origin of when that title popped into existence in the church However, most um, what we call josephologists people who study st. Joseph Say that there's two reasons we call him that one the first one is because he saved jesus from herod So remember herod was out to kill him Well, this is huge by the way for the pro-life movement today St. Joseph is the missing piece also for the pro-life movement Because he's got this unique title. He's called savior of the savior now not because he's god or the messiah divine He's not we know that but he saved jesus from herod So we need to call upon st. Joseph today to help us to say baby so very very pertinent and relevant for today The second is because he after our lady is the greatest intercessor before the throne of god for us Because he can call god the second person of the trinity his son Only mary can do that you and i can't do that you and i cannot pray to jesus and say my jesus lord savior and son That wouldn't be right. You know, we we need some spiritual direction on that one, right? But no, but joseph can't so the power of him the devil hates That st. Joseph can save babies So the devil's terrified of that and he's terrified of the intercessory power of st. Joseph So that's why he's the terror of demons. You know, I also I have a theory father I'm suspicious about this in a good way and that I'm involved with a number of exorcisms and exorcists and Sometimes in an exorcism a particular saint will show up And rattle the cage of the demons and sometimes the person is completely liberated. I suspect There's been a moment at some point in history where an exorcist where he showed up and the demons fled and And then the story spread about it, but uh, your your answers is good as well We'll find out in heaven where that title exactly came from but I have a question from terez She says should we pray the litany to st. Joseph daily for our family's country and world I have done the consecration and it is awesome Yes, absolutely pray that prayer. It's the officially approved prayer to st. Joseph of the church Approved in 1909 by blessed or st. Pope highest the tenth. I pray it daily myself Um, it's it's one of the most powerful prayers. I think that we have to st. Joseph. So by all means keep doing it Wonderful. Wilma asks I've just finished consecrating my six children to our blessed mother Using st. Louis de monfort. Can I as a mother? Consecrate my sons to st. Joseph using their book your book. They're all adults and fathers now Yes, you can because you have that spiritual authority in that relationship to be able to do that Um, a lot of people ask me similar questions like father. Can I consecrate my boss? I'm like, well, it's a little different you can pray for them But you don't really have authority in that relationship. So well intentioned, but yes for your children. Yes Nancy asks can doing the consecration to st. Joseph help a divorced families Oh, without a doubt sure, of course Um, I find a lot of people coming to me today saying That they're doing it for that particular intention and st. Joseph is bringing great comfort and healing in that situation We're all sinners. We're all broken wounded and we need a good father Elizabeth said I remember reading about mary and jesus being connected in your book But cannot find it now. It was a blessed book and was fruitful in my healing. I'm not clear where she's going But uh, do you have any thoughts about that? She might be thinking I have a book called under the mantle and I talk about Something called fetal microchimerism. It's a very technical thing. Oh, yes Yeah, the cells of a mother and child exchange Um, that doesn't happen with the father. Uh, at least science has not shown that yet and uh, so Yeah, that that doesn't seem to be a connection there, but nonetheless, you're connected by that affective intimate relationship with your father, so Beth Marcello made sure we had your Your url. Is it father callaway? cal-l-o-w-a-y.com Yeah, that's another website. It doesn't have all the stuff for the consecration though Um, if you want to find out the other books or the pilgrimages you would use that one Okay, great, but they can find links no matter what that might be the easier one to remember And it's father f-a-t-h-e-r spelled out, right? Yeah, father callaway.com great Christina, is it possible to consecrate a loved one to st. Joseph who has the father wound but who might not be open To going through the book herself Right. Yeah, that's a little tricky. I mean you can do something like a a pious entrustment You could say but the person on that level if they're not under your authority per se They do their own will needs to be involved. They need to participate themselves on some level But certainly pray for them and ask our lady st. Joseph to to to come into their life and and to help them to uh experience that deeper conversion Oh, this one's close to my heart. I have an autistic child Don says Can I do the consecration on behalf of my 13 year old son? Um who is nonverbal autistic would that be a lack of a better word about he has so many struggles and I pray to st Joseph for him often Yeah, oh no, of course and and you're not even really doing it on behalf of them You know you you're you're the parent. So you're doing it, you know for their good Just like you uh, you know for their good when they're little babies you have them baptized, right? Yeah, so of course and trust them consecrate them to our to our lady and to st. Joseph. Absolutely Uh, Tommy asks and this goes to my suspicion About terror of demons. He says hello father after each fatima prayer after each mystery of the rosary. I add St. Joseph pray for us. I've been told by an exorcist That this is very powerful and combating satan. What is your opinion on that? Oh, yeah, that's no problem. I mean, um, you definitely want to like I wouldn't like start doing that like if you have a prayer group in your parish after mass Just keep it to the rosary that we know instead of adding stuff in a public forum Unless the group is comfortable with it and approves it because sometimes I know people They want to keep adding adding adding adding adding things and it gets you know really long But you're right st. Joseph is very powerful and actually Last year. I think it was uh, uh, what's his name? He's one of these bloggers He brought up a book that there was an exorcism. I think in the 50s uh where it was a girl and um Satan who was talking about how much, uh Saint how much power st. Joseph has and how the devil is terrified of him So like you were saying dan this actually has been manifested in exorcism the devil himself testifying to the power of st. Joseph Yeah, that was the young woman. I think she was in koroasia And the movie exorcism of emily rose. I think was made about her. That's it, right And I think it was taylor marshal and uh, yeah It was taylor marshal was talking about that on one of his shows um lewis asks or lewis asks With all the marion apparitions and so many so much attention from jp2 That mario will usher in the age of peace after the tribulation Does this and meaning this the consecration to st. Joseph detract From what she's been asking of us and he says that And he's he's been pulled out many different ways sounds like he needs a spiritual director to help him kind of get sure narrowed in but You know, he won't add to everything else i'm doing and and he's doing, you know Rosary divine mercy chaplet mass fasting chaplet of impressive blood Sure, you know, I think maybe a little direction for you might be helpful Yeah, and you know, it's a good question. I look at it from this perspective You're not a child of a one-parent spiritual family So remember jesus entrusted himself into the care of mary and joseph And so we want to imitate jesus. So it's not a competition for sure The it's best that all children and we're children of god Uh have a mom and a dad. That's the best scenario and that's what jesus had. That's what we have an opportunity to have And so let's let's do it. Let's um, you know Have this complementarity because in a family you never just run to one parent We need both and so now the holy spirit is revealing this in these difficult and crazy times And so we we need to do that and so it's it's uh, it's very complimentary And I think it's very pleasing to jesus and to our lady that we bring st. joseph into this and remember At fatima st. joseph appeared and he was holding the christ child and he blessed the world with the child jesus Simultaneously. So remember fatima is a family apparition So the triumph of the immaculate heart is going to mean also the triumph of the sacred heart and the chaste heart of her husband joseph Her heart's not going to rejoice when families are in chaos. So let's bring in dad. Let's bring in st. joseph, right? fantastic I One one person asked is the book going to be available in spanish? Yes, um, it's being translated. It's almost done right now But then we've got to get a second eye on it to make sure everything's theologically correct Uh, it'll be available probably the first week of september in spanish Great now last question because I don't want to Know given us and I really appreciate that. Um, and and I have an opinion. So i'll state it What do you think about sleeping st. joseph? I've had sleep troubles my whole life not because of anxiety but physiological And i've and my wife got me a statue of sleeping st. Joseph Put it near my bed at home. Now. I'm obviously on the road. I need to bring it with me on the road And I touch it often and ask for his blessing for sleep. Uh, what are your thoughts on it? I I think it's it's helped me but Yeah, so it's a very popular devotion now where you get the statue of st. Joseph where he's asleep because remember He talked to god even when he slept, you know, god communicated to him And so what you normally do is you place your intention and a little piece of paper under the statue So that st. Joseph can sleep on it meaning talking to god, you know about your particular intention I I do this i've got i've got a stack My statue is about this far off the ground now because i've got so many intentions under it, you know Um, but yeah, I think it's fantastic and uh, I two two women so far Have told me that after doing the consecration. They no longer suffer from insomnia. They sleep now like a baby Awesome. Awesome. I'm not that good, but I things have definitely improved markedly So the book of course is consecration to st. Joseph the wonders of our spiritual father by donald galloway And for those who we've been live streaming this and cut this if you cut it late We're gonna post this out at spiritualdirection.com So you can catch the the early conversation when I disappeared as well Which was maybe the best part of the whole conversation And then uh get all of the links and things but you can find um father tell them Father callaway.com father is spelled out f a t h e r c a l o w a y.com and then where else can they find information Yeah, so if you want to get the book you can also get it We have the e version like the kindle and stuff. I don't even have one of those But a lot of people do so you can get it that way and the artwork remember we've got all this artwork Many images that are just phenomenal images of st. Joseph. You can buy those. They're only 19 dollars on the website So it's consecration to st. Joseph dot orc Don't spell out the saint just st Consecration to st. Joseph dot orc check it out. Whether you buy something or not check it out because you're going to be impressed I mean, it's uh, it's a pretty cool looking website And ali our our moderator has uh put the hot link there to that You can find that at the 647 mark In the in the chat, but as I said, we'll we'll have the whole show for you out at spiritualdirection.com We'll also send it out to uh The the folks who registered And what I'd like to do as we close out today is uh also To also a va.org Where we are doing formation on spiritual combat. So st. Joseph is the terror of demons We're studying spiritual combat this saturday morning. We meet spree It's a no cost formation and we'll be Starting at eight a.m. Central time and reviewing that book and digging into that Make sure you check out all that father Calloway has to offer He's doing a great work for the church and helping us Turn our hearts to the father, which is a also a prophecy. I think Out of the old testament regarding the latter times. So father, can you close us in prayer pray for us pray for You know, there's people from around the world here I think you and I both probably have a heavy heart for the chaos That's rising in the united states And for antique fatherhood Um, we really heal the divisions that that we have here Among us if you could close us in prayer and give us your blessing. I'd be grateful Absolutely in the name of the father and of the son and of the holy spirit. Amen Heavenly father, we come to you in these difficult days in which we are living Where there is so much confusion Where there is so much unrest We pray for renewal in our hearts and our families and our nations in our church Send down your holy spirit the powerful intercession of our lady the spouse of the spirit And the great st. Joseph our spiritual father Help us in the areas that we need to grow to turn away from sin And turn to lives of virtue to turn away from darkness and turn to the light We pray for great conversions through the intercession of saint joseph Especially for our loved ones who are away from the faith that they would come back to the practice of the sacraments And heavenly father as your priest I bestow a blessing on upon everyone who's viewing and listening to this program For their particular intentions The blessing of the father and of the son and of the holy spirit. Amen Amen fathers. Thank you so much for taking the time to be with us and to thank you for writing this book for this time And for all the good work that you do and I know that Many who are watching are grateful to you and as am I and that They they'll they'll will all also be praying for you Because we need I tell everyone We're living in tough times Every faithful priest, you know, you should be pouring out your heart every day Before god to support them every faithful bishop That you're aware of Everyone who's in leadership in the church That are faithful to the majesty and that are strong Or we do pray every day because it is a time of much confusion and men like Father Calloway are helping to clear the air and and Light the way and to really help us to focus And to face the storm that we're facing in so many ways and to in jesus name By his power by his true and holy church the catholic church Will overcome and we will survive the storm through the sacraments through the church through the grace of jesus Through the blessing of his saints like st. Joseph in particular And the blessed mother so thank you For all you do father and for all of you who joined us tonight Please be holy and please be a light to the world in the name of the father and the son and the holy spirit God bless