Consecration to St. Joseph: The Wonders of Our Spiritual Father

by Donald H. Calloway

The Sleeping St. Joseph devotion is a wonderful way to stay connected to your spiritual father and ask him to pray (sleep) on your intentions.

The Portal of the Mystery of Hope.

Just sleep. Why don’t people make use of it? I’ve given this secret to everyone, says God. I haven’t sold it. He who sleeps well, lives well. He who sleeps, prays. He who works, prays too. But there’s time for everything. Both for sleep and for work. Work and sleep are like two brothers. And they get on very well together. And sleep leads to work just like work leads to sleep. He who works well sleeps well, he who sleeps well works well. And yet they tell me that there are men who don’t sleep. I don’t like the man who doesn’t sleep, says God. Sleep is the friend of man. Sleep is the friend of God. Sleep may be my most beautiful creation. And I too rested on the seventh day. He whose heart is pure, sleeps. And he who sleeps has a pure heart. This is the great secret to being as indefatigable as a child. Yes, they tell me that there are men who work well and who sleep poorly. Who don’t sleep. What a lack of confidence in me. I’m talking about those who work and who don’t sleep. I pity them. I’m talking about those who work, and who thus in doing this are following my commandment, poor children. And who, on the other hand, don’t have the courage, don’t have the confidence to sleep. I pity them. I hold it against them. A bit. They don’t trust me. As a child lays innocently in his mother’s arms, thus do they not lay innocently in the arms of my Providence. They have the courage to work. They don’t have the courage to do nothing. They possess the virtue of work. They don’t posse...

Sleep refreshed his soul. God communicated with St. Joseph when he slept, and he was a holier husband and father because of it.

You are not wasting time when you rest. Sleep is pleasing to God. God will speak to you and refresh your soul when you sleep.

Saint Joseph is the patron and protector of a happy death. Those who pray to him are certain to die in good dispositions. He is the model of those who wish to die in the Lord. — St. Peter Julian Eymard

The Holy Sacrifice of the Mass is the most powerful of all prayers.

Sunday — Resurrection of Jesus Monday — Souls in Purgatory Tuesday — Holy Angels Wednesday — St. Joseph Thursday — Eucharist

Friday — Passion of Jesus Saturday — Our Lady

greatest feast day of St. Joseph is celebrated on March 19: the Solemnity of St. Joseph.

Remember to specially honor and invoke St. Joseph on Wednesdays, in the month of March, and when you pray for the souls in purgatory.

Love was the real cause of the death of St. Joseph.14 — Venerable Mary of Ágreda

His mind, heart, soul, and body could endure no more suffering. He was exhausted from love. For decades, he had poured out all his heart for Jesus and Mary. Love had consumed him. Love “killed” him.

However, St. Joseph’s suffering for Jesus and Mary lasted for decades and was of such interior intensity that no martyr’s blood can ever compare to the sacrificial love that the father of Jesus offered for so many years.

He lived with the never-ending knowledge that his wife’s Heart would be pierced and his Son mocked, ridiculed, and hated.

We may well call St. Joseph the martyr of the hidden life, for no one ever suffered as he did. But why so much sorrow in his life? Simply because the holier a person is, the more he must suffer for the love and glory of God. Suffering is the flowering of God’s grace in a soul and the triumph of the soul’s love for God. Therefore, St. Joseph, the greatest of saints after Mary, suffered more

That is why St. Joseph’s Calvary lasted thirty years with no respite whatever. When he was honored with the dignity of foster-father of Christ, the Cross was set up in his heart and he labored in its shadow for the rest of his life.15 — St. Peter Julian Eymard

Saint Joseph foresaw Mary’s tears and misery. He would have desired to stay by her side, and he must have begged Jesus to be allowed to remain on earth that he might climb Calvary and sustain Mary.16 — St. Peter Julian Eymard

God was pleased to take to himself St. Joseph before our Savior’s Passion, to spare him the overwhelming grief it would have caused him.17 — St. Bernardine of Siena

Joseph had of necessity to die before the Lord, for he could not have endured his crucifixion; he was too gentle, too loving.18 — Blessed Anne Catherine Emmerich

Blessed art thou among all women. Let angels and men praise thee; let all the generations know, praise, and exalt thy dignity; and may the Most High be eternally praised for having created thee so pleasing in his eyes and in the sight of all the blessed spirits. I hope to enjoy thy sight in the heavenly fatherland.20

dear St. Joseph, be with me living, be with me dying, and obtain for me a favorable judgment from Jesus, my merciful Savior.2 — Pope Leo XIII

Saint Joseph, my dear father, gaze upon me from heaven. Detach me from the things of earth, obtain for me purity of heart, love of God, and final perseverance.3 — Blessed Bartolo Longo

In 1937, Pope Pius XI realized the serious threat that communism posed to the common good and called upon St. Joseph to protect the Church from the many errors of communism.

On May 1, 1955, Pope Pius XII declared May 1 to be the liturgical feast of St. Joseph the Worker. He

St. Joseph is the protector of human dignity. He is the Terror of Demons! God our Father, creator and ruler of the universe, in every age you call man to develop and use his gifts for the good of others. With St. Joseph as our example and guide, help us to do the work you have asked and come to the rewards you have promised.

Bartolo Longo, the former satanic priest, was beatified by St. John Paul II in 1980. It is a great blessing for souls to be under the protection of the saint whose name makes demons tremble and flee.3 — Blessed Bartolo Longo

His lily is not the cane of an old man; it is the lance of a knight! Rare is the artist who has depicted the lily of St.

Love St. Joseph a lot. Love him with all your soul, because he, together with Jesus, is the person who has most loved our Blessed Lady and been closest to God. He is the person who has most loved God, after our Mother. He deserves your affection, and it will do you good to get to know him, because he is the Master of the interior life, and has great power before the Lord and before the Mother of God.1

virtue of purity and overcoming the sensual inclinations of the flesh;

help to escape sin and return to the friendship of God;

increasing the love and devotion to most holy Mary;

happy death and protection against the demons in that hour;

filling the demons with terror

gaining health of body and assistance in all kinds of difficulties;

securing issue of children in families.

to give him honor in your home, and to imitate his virtues. Take him as the patron of your interior and spiritual life, and you will advance greatly towards perfection.7

On this day, before the great multitude of heavenly witnesses, I, ___________________, a repentant sinner, consecrate myself, body and soul, to you, St. Joseph.