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In a generation plagued by fatherlessness, fear, and indecision, men need a mentor. They need a man who models masculine strength and understands his God-given duty to lay down his life for his family, to provide for their every need, to protect them, to exemplify a life of virtue. St. Joseph is that man. Man Your Post: Learning to Lead like St. Joseph is a mission entrusted to you by a company of Catholic men who have faced challenges and found strength through the intercession of the head of the Holy Family, the man who provided for Jesus and Mary during their earthly lives and protected them on harrowing journeys as they fled from danger and battled the forces of this world.By embarking on a tour of the Litany of St. Joseph, each chapter explores the power and freedom virtue brings to the lives of ordinary men trying to lead their families to heaven, virtues like justice, chastity, prudence, fortitude, faithfulness, and others.Included are powerful testimonies and reflections from: a five-time Major League Baseball All-star a priest a worship leader a family physician a marriage and family counselor a New York Times Bestselling Author and other Catholic leaders, husbands, and fathersWith a foreword by Dr. Scott Hahn, Man Your Post is an invitation to join your band of brothers as you carry out the mission God has entrusted to you. Answer the call. Join the mission. Man your post.

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Publié par	TAN Books
Date de parution	21 septembre 2021
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EAN13	9781505121391
Langue	English

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Man Your Post
Man Your Post
Learning to Lead Like St. Joseph
Duane and Carrie Daunt
Foreword by Scott Hahn
TAN Books Gastonia, North Carolina
Man Your Post: Learning to Lead Like St. Joseph © 2021 Carrie Daunt and Duane Daunt and Michael Sweeney, Andrew Laubacher, Justin Biance, Tom Nelson, Burke Masters, Bob Schuchts, Patrick Lencioni, Jake Khym, Chris Benzinger, Damon Owens, Tom Thiltgen, and Justin Brady
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Unless otherwise noted, Scripture quotations are from the Revised Standard Version of the Bible—Second Catholic Edition (Ignatius Edition), copyright © 2006 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
Excerpts from the English translation of the Catechism of the Catholic Church for use in the United States of America © 1994, United States Catholic Conference, Inc.—Libreria Editrice Vaticana. Used with permission.
Cover design by Caroline Green
Cover image: Flight into Egypt (etching print) by Carlo Maratti. The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1951, Metropolitan Museum of Art. Public domain via Wikimedia Commons.
Library of Congress Control Number: 2021940314
ISBN: 978-1-5051-2137-7 Kindle ISBN: 978-1-5051-2138-4 ePUB ISBN: 978-1-5051-2139-1
Published in the United States by TAN Books PO Box 269 Gastonia, NC 28053 www.TANBooks.com Printed in the United States of America
Contents
Foreword
Authors’ Note
Preface
Moving Through This Book
Litany of St. Joseph
Chapter 1: Joseph Most Just
Step Up to the Plate by Mike Sweeney
Chapter 2: Joseph Most Chaste
Triumph Over Shame by Andrew Laubacher
Chapter 3: Joseph Most Prudent
Seek Wise Counsel by Justin Biance
Chapter 4: Joseph Most Courageous
Be Bold by Dr. Tom Nelson
Chapter 5: Joseph Most Obedient
Trust in the Father by Father Burke Masters
Chapter 6: Joseph Most Faithful
Love Loyally by Dr. Bob Schuchts
Chapter 7: Mirror of Patience
Give Everything to God by Patrick Lencioni
Chapter 8: Lover of Poverty
Accept Every Weakness by Jake Khym
Chapter 9: Model of Workmen
Pursue Balance by Duane Daunt
Chapter 10: Glory of Home Life & Pillar of Families
Expand Your Circle by Chris Benzinger
Chapter 11: Guardian of Virgins
Protect the Innocent by Damon Owens
Chapter 12: Comfort of the Troubled, Hope of the Sick, & Patron of the Dying
Carry Your Cross by Deacon Tom Thiltgen
Chapter 13: Terror of Demons
Wage War on Sin by Father Justin Brady
Acknowledgments
Appendix I: Spiritual Warfare Prayers
Appendix II: St. Joseph Novena
Appendix III: The Seven Privileges of St. Joseph
About the Authors
Foreword
W hat’s in a name? What’s in a title?
In the case of St. Joseph, we can find an infinity of significance in the syllables by which we call him. A silent man, Joseph spoke volumes when he simply gave his name to the census taker in Bethlehem.
His name, after all, is a confession of hope. It means “God will increase.” Joseph’s lifetime was a strange interlude for God’s Chosen People. Economically, they prospered. But they were ruled—illegitimately, according to the Law of Moses—by a murderous tyrant, Herod, who answered readily to the demands of his Gentile patrons, the Romans. He rebuilt the Jerusalem Temple, but he also subsidized the construction of idolatrous shrines in the Holy Land. Yet Joseph’s name looked forward to the time of fulfillment, the day of the Messiah, which many believed to be imminent.
Joseph was known as a “son of David” (Mt 1:20). He was born into the royal clan from which the Messiah was expected to come. The family had been much diminished in the thousand years since David’s reign. They had suffered exile and poverty. But they kept their sense of dignity and divine purpose. They safeguarded their identity in their genealogical tables, which historians tell us were carefully preserved even for centuries after the lifetime of Joseph. The clan of David remembered the marvels the Lord had done, and they knew that the arm of the Lord had not been shortened in the intervening years. The name Son of David was still another expression of faith and hope.
Joseph’s given name bespoke another foreshadowing in Israel’s history. It evoked the memory of God’s prodigies in the time of the patriarchs. The original Joseph was the most beloved son of Jacob and Rachel. And the father in the Holy Family had much in common with his ancient namesake. Both men brought their families to Egypt. Both received revelations in dreams. Both were righteous by any measure. By calling forth a new Joseph, God was fulfilling an implicit promise he had made almost two thousand years before. He was resolving an Old Testament type in a New Testament antitype.
Joseph’s name spoke so eloquently that the saint, perhaps, did not need to say much. Saints and scholars make much of St. Joseph’s silence. Scripture records not a single word from his mouth. It would be enough, however, for his people to know that he was Joseph, Son of David .
Everything after that is evidence of God’s generosity—the superabundance of graces and glories that come to us with faith in Jesus Christ. As you’ll see in the pages of this book, the treasury grows richer as the centuries pass and the Church deepens its reflection on the life of St. Joseph. We know him now as the Worker, Terror of Demons, and Patron of the Dying. We know him by names and titles implicit in his story, but drawn out only gradually, over millennia, through the development of Christian devotion and doctrine.
What emerges in this book is a powerful Catholic vision of manhood from a wide variety of Catholic men. And their witness points to the manly virtues of our common father figure. It’s not the ideal we find in popular culture—where the ideal man moves through degrees of macho, from Rocky to Rambo. In Joseph, instead, we find a life that is silent so that God can speak. We find a man who reflects and prays before he acts. We find a man who cares more for his righteousness before God than his reputation before his neighbors. We find the antithesis of machismo, and yet we find the model of holy and courageous manhood.
This book is also an expression in words of the deeds of the John Paul II Healing Center, founded by Dr. Bob Schuchts, who is Carrie Daunt’s father. I met Dr. Bob for the first time by phone, through a mutual friend, and I immediately got the sense that our initial conversation was itself a moment of grace, a sort of sacred serendipity—holy happenstance if you will.
Within minutes, it seems, we both figured out that we share a common background. Was it our accents? I wasn’t sure.
“Wait,” he said, “are you from Pittsburgh?”
“Well, yes. Yes, I am.”
“What part?”
“The South Hills.”
“Which town?”
“Bethel Park.”
“What neighborhood?”
“Oakhurst.”
“Where in Oakhurst?”
“Marshall Road.”
“Marshall Road! What was your address?”
“Three-nineteen.”
“Three-nineteen? That’s just a few doors up the street from where I lived! Wait, did you have a brother named Fritz?”
It turns out that he grew up on the same block as the Hahn family, and our brothers were close friends.
So, like St. Joseph, I can look back in my own history and see this collaboration prefigured. God is good, provident, and good-humored.
I am honored to appear in these pages with so many contributors I number among my heroes. They come from a wide range of backgrounds and perspectives. Their messages are as varied as their lives. But together they form an integral vision of what it means to be a faithful, faith-filled man in our times, which are no less daunting than the reign of King Herod.
For men living in such times, Joseph is a model, a patron, an intercessor, a companion. His life of silence is instructive because it shows us how God works silently, surprisingly—yet reliably—in our own lives.
By all the titles he’s earned—by all the names he has borne—may St. Joseph be invoked today.
Dr. Scott Hahn
Authors’ Note
O n December 8, 2020, Pope Francis declared 2021 as the Year of St. Joseph. This declaration occurred just days after agreeing to the contract for this book. Carrie and I believe that the timing is not a coincidence but an affirmation from the Holy Spirit that this mission we have been waiting ten years to launch would come to fruition in conjunction with the pope’s announcement, and subsequently published during this year dedicated to St. Joseph. We also believe that the timing of you reading this book is not a coincidence but rather an inspired movement of the Holy Spirit, activating you to join us in this mission.
Preface
Carrie
W iping his shoes as he shuffled through the door, he glanced in my direction. I could tell he was pondering something deeper than the lawn he had just mowed.
“I’ve been thinking,” he began.
I smiled from the other side of the cluttered counter, where I stood arranging the dirty dishes in the washer. It’s rare that my husband initiates a conversation with I’ve been thinking . Most interactions start as they end, one long stream of consciousness, words trailing like a tortoise behind the swift hare of his thoughts.
With intense clarity and an irresistible gleam in his eye, Duane continued, “I’ve been thinking about the state of our nation—our world—and I can clearly see where we have gone wrong. Men are not allowed to be men. If you watch the news or read past the headlines, it’s so clear. Men have forsaken virtue and forgotten how to lead. Where did the strong men g