The chambers of the Chaste Heart

(Monsignor Arthur Calkins asked me to write this down.  He said it doesn’t go against Catholic teaching.  Monsignor Calkins is a Mariologist and Josephologist.)

Feb 14, 2021

Dearest Lord,
You allowed me to received an extraordinary experience.  As I was praising you I felt my heart palpitations and it was reverberating throughout my whole being and the room, and I was breathing so  hard and my hands were getting numb, I thought I was having a heart attack….I didn’t realize that I entered into the Chaste Heart of St. Joseph- those heartbeats were his.  I was crying and crying because I can see with pure clarity and perfect vision the suffering St. Joseph had.  He would see the future.  He would see his son executed, and his brutal and violent death.  Every part of St. Joseph's being was crying out in horror. St Joseph saw this every day.  The role he had accepted to protect Jesus, his son, he accepted with his whole being... it had a double edged sword.  To his horror,   St. Joseph couldn’t protect him, and it felt like it killed him.

As an analogy, it looks like  the wife who is so pure and sweet that  you loved with all your heart  is raped in front of your eyes, and your hands are tied behind you and struggling, you cannot do a single thing about it.  

I cried and cried as I was allowed to feel what he felt and how the will of God was so hard, so very hard.  

But he yielded every day of his life only because he was able to love the Blessed Mother and Jesus, and that love carried him thru his mission.  His ability to detach and  to surrender was because of that love to do God’s Will and gave him the strength that made him the Terror of Demons.  He cooperated with the will to love , and to have love pour out of you even though the Will of God seems so impossible for you to do.

The fire of truth gave me to understand truly what St. Joseph went thru, I could’t stop crying.

I couldn’t possible understand this on my own, because I am a sinner and numbed by my sins. But as I praised God and worshiped him he made me disposed to this grace.
I also knew from a prior experience that this almost “impossible for man “  task done in St. Joseph made him the exalted saint that he is and all his attributes are to be revered.    His role was made possible by Gold’s grace  to accomplish the Will of God  in Mary and in Jesus.  In other words, he was a instrument to help them do their mission.

Also Jesus would never fake that he was his father.  The Father in Heaven had to implant in Joseph an essence of Himself for Jesus to recognize his fatherhood in Truth and Spirit.

In like way, Joseph is our Father spiritually.  He does the same for all of us, he knows what we have to accomplish in our lives for the Will of God to be accomplished  and he knows our hardships and pains.  His love for us so intense like a true father that he will help us to its successful end- if we ask his help  Like the bridge he was for Jesus and Mary, he is the bridge for us to do God’s Will.
This happened a little before noon and lasted for about 10 minutes...I was crying from the sheer piercing of the truth to my heart and my spirit eyes and it was affecting my own physical being,
I love you so much,

Your daughter, 
Karen

I was later taught how to pray to St Joseph.  I will show you how I was led.

Let us pray for the soul of Monsignor Arthur Calkins who died this past first Saturday. 
​Feb 3, 2024

Monsignor Arthur B. Calkins is a native of Erie, PA and was ordained a priest on 7 May 1970 for the Archdiocese of New Orleans where he served in various parishes as parochial vicar. His most recent work is Totus Tuus: Pope Saint John Paul II’s Program of Marian Consecration and Entrustment, Second Edition (Academy of the Immaculate, 2017). He previously served as an official of the Pontifical Commission “Ecclesia Dei” in the Vatican. His articles on Mariology and spirituality have appeared in both popular and scholarly publications as well as in the acts of congresses and symposia. In recent years he has been involved in the publication of some English translations of the works of Blessed Concepción (Conchita) Cabrera de Armida (1862-1937). His last residence was at Our Lady of Prompt Succor Parish in Sulphur, LA where he continued his priestly ministry.

Thank you for your service Monsignor Calkins, may you rest in peace!!!