Archdiocese of Denver

31 ARCHDIOCESE OF DENVER | THE YEAR OF ST. JOSEPH DENVER CATHOLIC: Why did you want to write this book? FR. DONALD CALLOWAY: Right now in the world, we've got what I call an anthropological crisis. People are confused about their sexuality, about what it means to be a man, what it means to be a woman. Marriage has been redefined in many countries. People don't even know what it means to be a family anymore. You know, we've got modern families and we've got people identifying as cats. It's crazy. So, I thought to myself about three years ago, what are we doing here as Christians? We belong to Jesus Christ by our baptism and many of us have done a Marian consecration, which is phe- nomenal. It's one of the best things you can do. Still, we don't seem to be making much ground when it comes to this crisis today. Sister Lucia dos Santos of Fatima said that the final battle between good and evil would be over marriage and the family. So I thought to myself, I wonder if there's anything about St. Joseph, like a Saint Louis de Montfort-type consecration program, because when a house is in disorder, and by that I mean society and even the Church, it takes a father to restore order in a house. I thought, does this thing exist out there? Is there some gem hiding in Poland or Croatia or something that nobody knows about that we can get out there? I know a lot of people around the world, so I contacted them. I said, hey, have you guys got anything like this in your country, like a Saint Louis Montfort-type con- secration, not to Our Lady, but to St. Joseph? Everybody said no, and everybody also said, 'Father, that's brilliant.' They said this is exactly what the Church needs right now in the midst of this crisis and confusion. We need St. Joseph as a good, loving father. And so I said, 'you know what, I'm going to do it then.' So I spent three years doing all the research and writing and putting it together. ⊲

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