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St Antoninus Parish
33-Day Consecration to St Joseph
"DO-IT-YOURSELF" HOME RETREAT
following Fr Donald Calloway's book.

Fr Joseph is inviting all of us to join in this preparation for the Consecration to St Joseph, particularly at this time of great confusion and spiritual crisis in our families. St Joseph is the Patron of the Universal Church and the "Terror of the Demons", and so we will ask him in a big & special way to intercede for us and our families - before the throne of God in the company of his Holy Family.

And what better timing than now! Pope Francis has just declared this year as the Year of St Joseph (see below).

Our Consecration Day is on February 2, the Feast of the Presentation of Jesus. St Joseph, as the father of the Holy Family and our Blessed Mother were presenting Jesus in the temple.


NOTES ON OUR 33-DAY CONSECRATION TO ST. JOSEPH:

  • Starting date of our 33-day prayer journey is January 1, 2021. Consecration date is Tuesday, February 2, the Feast of the Presentation of Jesus.

  • We would spend about 20-30 minutes a day reading on the following: short exposition on one of the invocations in the powerful Litany of St. Joseph, a reading on St. Joseph and the recitation of the Litany of St. Joseph.

  • We will meet once a week on Zoom or GotoMeeting for sharing with Fr Joseph. More details on that soon.
  • If you would like to participate in this, you would need to purchase the book. It will cost $15 for the book, or $10 for ebook or $20 for audio book. Order directly HERE. or from Amazon. Please do this as as soon as possible.
Welcome to Consecration to St. Joseph! You are about to begin a journey that will change your life.

By Fr Donald Calloway.

What does it mean to consecrate yourself to St. Joseph?
What does it mean for a person to be consecrated to St. Joseph? Well, it basically means that you acknowledge that he is your spiritual father, and you want to be like him. To show it, you entrust yourself entirely into his paternal care so that he can help you acquire his virtues and become holy. Total consecration to St. Joseph means you make a formal act of filial entrustment to your spiritual father so that he can take care of your spiritual well-being and lead you to God. The person who consecrates himself to St. Joseph wants to be as close to their spiritual father as possible, to the point of resembling him in virtue and holiness. Saint Joseph, in turn, will give those consecrated to him his undivided attention, protection, and guidance.

Read more: https://www.consecrationtostjoseph.org/introduction.html
From Bishop Gerard Battersby (Detroit):

In making this consecration to St. Joseph, we are asking the Holy Spirit, through the patronage of St. Joseph and in imitation of him, to bring into relief the identity we received at our baptism, reborn in order that we might permanently turn our gaze to wonder at Mary’s motherhood, to the infant who grew in wisdom and strength, that by his suffering, death, and resurrection, a world is redeemed, a love unassailable definitively and forever proclaimed. Jesus, by his sacred person and flesh, has remade the family into a God-bearing manger, which holds the mystery of sonship, of true spousal self-donation, of lifelong chaste fidelity to the will of God and the glory of his name.

Below: The Truth About St. Joseph and Spiritual Warfare (Fr. Donald Calloway, MIC) and why we are doing the 33-Day Consecration to St Joseph.
THE YEAR OF ST JOSEPH was proclaimed by Pope Francis last Dec 8, 2020, on the Feast of the Immaculate Conception. Perfect timing!!!
By Vatican News staff writer

Pope Francis on Tuesday announced a special year dedicated to St. Joseph starting from 8 December 2020 until 8 December 2021, on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the proclamation of St. Joseph as the Patron of the Universal Church, as well as the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of Our Lady.

The Apostolic Penitentiary also issued a decree granting special indulgences for the duration of the special year to celebrate the anniversary and “to perpetuate the entrustment of the whole Church to the powerful patronage of the Custodian of Jesus.”

During this period, the faithful will have the opportunity to commit themselves “with prayer and good works, to obtain, with the help of St. Joseph, head of the heavenly Family of Nazareth, comfort and relief from the serious human and social tribulations that besiege the contemporary world today.”

Devotion to St. Joseph
The decree signed by Cardinal Mauro Piacenza, the Major Penitentiary of the Apostolic Penitentiary, and the Regent, Fr. Krzysztof Nykiel, notes that devotion to St. Joseph has grown extensively throughout the history of the Church, “which not only attributes to him high reverence after that of the Mother of God his spouse but has also given him multiple patronages.”

At the same time, the Magisterium of the Church continues to discover “old and new greatness in this treasure which is St. Joseph, like the master in the Gospel of Matthew who brings from his storeroom both the new and the old.”

Therefore, the gift of indulgences granted through a decree of the Apostolic Penitentiary by mandate of the Holy Father “will be of great benefit to the perfect attainment of the appointed purpose.”
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Rev. Joseph A. Meagher (Pastor)