Fr. Donald Calloway "The Conversion of Fr. Don Calloway" Women's Conference 2019

The theme for the 2019 Diocese of Arlington Women's Conference was "Miracles Do Happen." The sold-out annual women’s conference at St. Joseph Church in Herndon featured Poor Clare Sister Briege McKenna; Congregation of Marian Fathers of the Immaculate Conception Father Donald Calloway; and Mass celebrated by Bishop Michael F. Burbidge March 2.
Father Don shared the story of his conversion to a Catholic priest from an angry, drug-addicted teen.
Father Don was rebellious when he was younger. He was into drugs, the Grateful Dead band and wanted nothing to do with the church. His mother prayed and prayed. One night after declining to go out with his friends, he took up the book, The Queen of Peace Visits Medjugorje, and it changed his life. He converted to Catholicism, eventually becoming a priest, and is the author of No Turning Back and other devotional books.

[@marilsiasilva3335]

What a testimony of conversion! Thank you Fr. Don Calloway 🙏🏻 . Holy Mary mother of God intercede for him to keep him strong, safe and serving your son our Lord Jesus Christ! God bless you

[@melaniecaubat7001]

Thank you Father am so blessed listening to you God is really great and am a Filipino am so grateful that Filipinos had a part in your life

[@12NWN]

I cannot get enough of this. May God bless and protect you Fr Calloway and all our priests.

[@mamuschnana620]

Fr Don Calloway is great

[@vaticancitybride7137]

Thank you so much Father in Christ Donald Calloway For your Extraordinary Catholic Christian Testimony Superior thanks be to Our Savior and To Our Creator And To Our Lady Amen

[@chaschk2]

I love this priest. May Jesus and Mary keep him always!

[@annablazejowski3862]

Mary is dead! And can Not help anyone! Praying to Mary it is the blasphemy to GOD! She is not GOD and to be worshipped! Worship belongs only to GOD!

[@metanoia1122]

May the Good Lord continue to rain his blessings down upon this good man and great priest.

[@feabano9514]

God bless you Father Don , you are great ❤

[@roshnimonteiro2229]

My heart is so happy to know that one child is come back to our merciful and loving God. All our youth need to be saved.

[@solarmax11]

We are so blest to have this priest Fr. Calloway in our century. His conversion story fills my heart with tons of faith.

[@sarahmwendi506]

This priest has a very good sense of humor...... God bless him

[@BD-fi2oq]

Thank you Father. Asking for prayers for my goddaughter, who needs a plan for her life. A plan created by her Creator,

[@thebob01]

This is great. It's beautiful to see the lost come to Christ.

[@archmdc370]

What a story! You are the modern day Saint Augustine.

[@celiafrancis2961]

God bless you for writing, CONSECRATION TO ST. JOSEPH, amazing book. I love it

[@lorraineprescott7629]

Amen Father, your conversion story is a huge miracle and goes to show how God works with all of us where we are at, thank you for your "yes" to God and I will always be praying for you

[@andreaholland8336]

Prayers to you 🙏🏻

[@southasia7396]

May God bless you always Father, I am very glad to hear your convertion, God is very good

[@mariamahinay3547]

Love you Father incredible life, Awesome story, thank you God Bless Us All..

[@beabowling15]

God bless you Fadre. Thank you for sharing your life story 🙏. May the blessed Virgin Mother guide and protect you wherever you go. We love you.

[@gabrieladehoyos2500]

Anyone else cry when Mary saidDonny I am so happy?” 😭😭😭 God bless you father 💙🇺🇸

[@GoinDownhill361]

I did. Every time I hear that get emotional, don't know why. Mama Mary, pray for us. God bless you.

[@Lola-kv6fx]

Father Calloway is awesome 😎

[@koshaplummer5815]

God Bless you Fr. Galloway. You are an inspiration to many.

[@liz2874]

May Our Lady always watch over you. I love St. Joseph. Such a beautiful silent witness. He spent his life protecting Our Lord and Our Lady. May he protect the Universal Church that is under a horrible assault from the devil

[@johns1834]

Wow. Great Story. I am so happy to have finally found the Catholic Church and the truth. This is after a lifetime of being loosely associated with the Episcopal Church with it's wild liberal changes, like homosexuality is no longer a sin kind of stuff, and is definitely not the same church my parents used to take us to anymore.

[@lucycaron1739]

I have already said my 15 mysteries today but you just inspired me to say another today❤️thank you Father, prayers for you! And I ordered your new book😊

[@em1694_]

“I didn’t have to go to church. My mom turned our house into a church” 😂

[@Mementomorichild]

My brother’s staying with me - pretty sure he feels the same way about my house LOL

[@leonorajustice2733]

Fr. Donald Calloway, the first time I saw you , you in the EWTN a show …!I think was coming home! Since then I fallow your speech about mama Mary, I devoted with her since 2008 . Thank you so much fr. Calloway … your are an amazing !❤️🙏👍

[@vaticancitybride7137]

MERCIFUL GOSPEL TRUTH AMEN

[@vaticancitybride7137]

AMEN

[@agnesmuani]

Love Fr Calloway talks i just can't get enough of his talks 🙏

[@coG139]

Thank you, Father! We ALL needed this video! THANK YOU!

[@evelynsantiago1888]

ThanksTruemin!

[@em1694_]

I could listen to you all day! Thank you for following Jesus into the priesthood! I’m praying for you

[@Onemorerandomperson]

We listened to this speech during our student retreat and it was absolutely amazing! Thank you for sharing this video!

[@rosecharles6677]

Thank you Fr. For you message. I ptay that you will continue you work for the Lord. I have a friend who recently copmleted a pilgrimage to Lourdes. She told me it was awesome, holy and blessed. God blessings, pray for my husband.

[@yourthoughtamazesme]

Thank you for all you do Father Calloway...the Catholic church needs more priest like you! Absolutely love your conversion story--which I learned about a few years ago. WOW!!! Y'all can follow Father Calloway on Facebook. Search Facebook for "Consecration to St. Joseph with Fr. Calloway"

[@dorianneburgoyne5755]

I laughed through this whole testimony. I just became a fan. I saw Father on EWTN as a priest. I had no idea his upbringing, but I believe everything he said. I am Philippino

[@irisaranjo8752]

Please pray for my children and grandchildren.l will pray for you.

[@davewygonowski984]

Thank you. But what about fathers? Our hearts are also broken with the behavior of our children... Thank you for the promo of Poland too... We do love our Lord and we love our guests / visitors!!!

[@rosaluzrivera3652]

My Lord what a testimony Father C. Thank you sooooooooo much for this video. I will share it with my 2 foster boy who have also seen and been through a lot . God bless you a million times.

[@thegigilemay]

It was fun to hear him yesterday...we should pray for him.

[@bradchristy5002]

Father, this talk was one of the most moving experiences I have had in a very long time (I am 74). I teared up when you described your experience in the Naval Base Catholic Church. I see that the Philippine ladies are a blessing - angels sent to Coach & guide at critical times. Your reactions were moving & powerful. I know you were humorous, but for me EVERY WORD of your description hit hard! Bless you, I am on the devotional journey with Mary & shortly with Joseph. The truth is I have a copy of your devotional to St Joseph - but treated it ambivalently. Your video was placed directly in my life (during my devotion to the Blessed Mother) to awaken me to my need for both devotions. I will soon be in devotion to St Joseph - expressly because of you. Thank you & bless you & your holy orders and work!

[@susyruggeri310]

thank you father

[@annmoore8133]

I'm crying...It's so real. Thanks God and Blessed Mother Mary, Amen.

[@asuncionshackelford2832]

Thank you Father for the uplifting, encouraging and transforming message of God’s mercy and unconditional love, I hope I will get a chance to meet you and your mom🙏❤️

[@aracelibasilio7672]

More power to you Fr. Callloway. You are so humble! Thank you very much for your testimony. You are an instrument for God's Glory!

[@omaangel9]

Thank you Fr Don to strengthen my faith with my broken families. May I've patience, forgiveness & love one another as my family in God. 🙏🤗❤️

[@soniachoa1603]

Authentic.

[@carolhensen8005]

You nailed it…..common sense…..is lost, we need your testimony about your life, to young people it’s amazing message…..Thank you…..

[@lorrainemorris6242]

Thank you Father. This is amazing . MENY BLESSINGS to you 🙏

[@josephinemachado5349]

Fr. Don Calloway , pl. pray for my son Rowland Rex Kavitha to say rosary🙏

[@kathyhermanson7168]

Absolutely loved listening to this, what a wonderful conversation testimony. Loved the book, did the consecration!❤ God Bless you Fr. Don!

[@The12thSeahorse]

Certainly a great.....entertaining......conversion story.

[@evelynsantiago1888]

Thanks True, happy thanksgiving?

[@MayBelleNBomin]

❤❤❤😇

[@mariabudbr7178]

It was fun

[@lisamclaren5785]

Thank you! Lisa

[@briankelley1093]

1 Corinthians 15:3-4 (The Gospel)

[@camilaflavia9602]

padre ,DEUS abençoe sempre seu ministério, vem para o brasil de preferencia na cançao nova que é pertinho da minha cidade caçapava-sao paulo . vem evangelizar aqui no brasil ☺

[@allansimoes8338]

Even St. Jerome who transalated the Bible from the Greek to the Latin Vulgate initally went into irregularities. So Never Despair in these trying times. Allan.

[@nancyreyes5219]

I know many idolize him. Sad JESUS should be No. 1!

[@leonorajustice2733]

I corrected the show coming home… the show was the journey home

[@markaraujo06]

rev donald calloway you haven't given me weekly money support for my christmas & my birthday for several years but why being careless?2021

[@RonCopperman]

Hey I'm like this dude, met Jesus at a Pot festival....small world.

[@nancyreyes5219]

Message is good! He’s too over the top! Comedian 😏!!

[@rlrett1]

Joseph, the next great human after Mary!?!?!? Hmh, I thought God was no respecter of person? The Bible does tell us who to follow, and every Catholic and most protestants don't and don't even know or they wouldn't do what they do! 1 Corinthians 4:15-17 15 For though ye have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet have ye not many fathers: for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel. 16 Wherefore I beseech you, be ye followers of me. 17 For this cause have I sent unto you Timotheus, who is my beloved son, and faithful in the Lord, who shall bring you into remembrance of my ways which be in Christ, as I teach every where in every church. 1 Corinthians 11:1-3 11 Be ye followers of me, even as I also am of Christ. 2 Now I praise you, brethren, that ye remember me in all things, and keep the ordinances, as I delivered them to you. 3 But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God. Hmh, In the first verse he calls it "MY WAYS", is Paul arrogant or the writer of Holy Scripture (Holy Spirit), wants to distinguish between the ministry of Paul and the ministry of the 12 Apostles! How many times is OUR APOSTLE referring to "Mary"? Do I put Paul on a pedestal? No I simply follow the teaching of a man, who received his instruction by revelation from the risen Christ! He was the last one to speak to Christ in the Holy scripture! So why is the RCC getting its instruction from the 12, meant for the New covenant Israel, and totally ignoring Paul (They do read his letters in the first second readings, without understanding, because their main focus is on the 4 Gospels!) Galatians 1:11-13 11 But I certify you, brethren, that the gospel which was preached of me is not after man. 12 For I neither received it of man, neither was I taught it, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ. Addiction comes in many forms, to "miracles as lying wonders" is one of them! God Bless All!

[@joshualedford6933]

Richard Rettenmaier amen

[@nancyreyes5219]

I like his message. He’s too theatrical! His talk is too comical. 🤔 hmmmm

[@ruthgoldbergives6945]

🇺🇸Gray Mountain A Novel By John My commentaries continued The town of Brady is a dangerous place. It is a small, isolated, inbred village, far from the shohisticared New York Metropolis in every way. The town thrives on doom and Clandestine activity, mayhem, subversive activity, secracy and vice. The village really has no assets only liabilities. Samantha arrives there with the idealistic point of view that she with her high level skills, abilities and talents, can be an asset to the village. But the only thing that these people see or feel is embarrassment, and a threat to their way of life, pathetic as it is. Yes Brady is a pathetic little village, populated only by pathetic people. You could call Brady "The Pathetic Village of the Damned", Every character is twice as pathetic as the past. Every Legal Clinic Case is pathetic. Poor pathetic Samantha, couldn't see the forest for the trees, Samantha lost the game in Brady village the minute she slept with Jeff. It was an irreconcilable, irretrievable mistake. Time to leave town. Let's begin conducting our investigation at the beginning and chronologically work our way to the end. Chapter 1, chapter 2, and chapter 3 describe the unexpected, sudden and massive economic melt down disaster and career reversals in the New York Metropolis. For now I will by pass these miseries. It's melting down now, but it will start to rise again before the end of the novel. We meet Samantha's dad Marshal a brilliant, seasoned wealthy attorney on page 19, 20 founder of The Kofer Group a Washington DC Firm. On page 22, Mattie Wyatt and the Mountain Legal Clinic in Brady, Virginia is mentioned on page 25. On page 22 Marshall gives the thumbs down to the furlough and non-profit internship. "It smells." He said. You don't really trust those guys do you?" Samantha has a deep-seated, bigoted prejudice towards her father and his firm because he and all of his partners are convicted, sentenced, disbarred, and incarcerated and rehabilitated. She can't see herself working for a firm of disbarred lawyers. She snubs her father and scorns him. Samantha will have plenty of time to regret it and the the day she turned her back on him and walked away, straight into disaster. I would diagnose Samantha and personality disordered and spoiled rotten by her parents. Haughty. High-minded. Condescending. Marshall's instincts are dead right. This furlough is a sinkhole. In the end it proves to be "quick sand". And once in she became more and more incapacitated and unable to extract herself. Samantha should have listened to her father. He was trying his best to protect her. He knows men. Samantha know anything the types of psychotic, mentally defective, deviant, sleazy, criminal,underworld people that she will be associating herself with. Far worse that her dad's crowd by far. Poor thing. Poor thing. She thinks her father and his colleagues are trash. Chapter 4 Samantha has a pleasant telephone conversation with Mattie Wyatt, director of the Mountain Legal Clinic and arranges to drive from affluent suburban Washington DC , 300 miles and a century in time to Brady Virginia. "The Mountain Legal Aid Clinic ran its low-budget operations from an abandoned hardware store on Main Street, in Brady, Virginia, population twenty-two hundred and declining." "Mattie Wyatt had been the clinic's executive director from the day she founded the organization twenty-six years earlier" Question. How do you found an organization like this one and sustain it, keep it going, and prospering, and flourishing, successful, respected, and fully funded for twenty-six years? Tell me how. I need to know. Ms. Wyatt insists on being on a first name basis. They agree to meet around 4:00pm the next day for the job interview. Q. Why did Samantha go alone? Why didn't Samantha have one of her friends or associates to drive travel with her just in case something happens? Q. She checked for the website of the legal clinic only. Why didn't she check the website for information about the town of Brady, Virginia? Why didn't she check the website for the State of Virginia? Why didn't she check the geographic area? Why didn't she check the history of the town and all its troubles with the coal companies? Why she check the news papers to see what is going on there now? Why didn't she make reservations before leaving Washington DC so that she would have accommodations? She left town going to a strange place, where did not know anyone, and knew virtually nothing about the place. Why didn't she do a background check on the clinic, and the history? She took no precautions? She was over confident? She was idealistic? She was inexperienced and naive? She was presuming? She assumed that she would be safe? She took it for granted that people are basically decent? She took it for granted that bad things don't happen to good people? This is the United States. Karen Meets with her mother Karen Samantha talks about the panic in New York. Calls it "the real world". Samantha doesn't know it, but she has never even seen the real world. Just wait untill she gets to Brady. At least the world that she was in is above the gutter, above the sewer. The world that her father offered her is not perfect but it is above definitely above the gutter and above the sewer, and outside of the cesspool of poverty. Now she goes to Brady settles for all of that trash. Samantha's mother also expresses grave doubts about this venture. "Samantha, I think you are making a mistake." Warning. Red lights flashing all over the place."I just don't like the sound of it." Says, Karen, her mother. They talk about women being jilted by the men they love, and women disposable and expendable. They talk about Marshal dumping Karen his wife for a young paralegal who worked for him. They talked about his pleading guilty and spending time in prison for financial crimes. They talk about Samantha's inexperience with bad men. That is about to change. Samantha's mother withdraws permission to borrow her car to drive to Brady for the interview. Samantha, determined to disobey both parents, and ignore their clear warnings, decides to rent a car and head for Brady. Samantha rents a car. Samantha hears more disaster tidings from New York. She calls her dad, he continues to express fears this time her "rushing into a meaningless internship deep in "the third world." " You are making a mistake Sam". Marshal says. He has probably done some investigation and know what he is talking about. Samantha says, "I don't need your advice. Dad " "Perhaps you need my advice. Please listen to someone with some sense." "Good-bye Dad." Fate sealed. End of commentary on chapter 4. On to Chapter 5

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