My Glorious Journey

About the Book

My suspicion peaked when my medical doctor proposed, in fact highly recommended, that I have consultations with an oncologist. The meaning and implications of this recommendation meant that my medical doctor had a suspicion of cancer but wanted to verify it. Trembling with fear, I visited the oncologist, and after a battery of tests, it was confirmed that I was a cancer patient. Wow, I thought to myself, my death warrant is signed and sealed but not yet delivered. My preparation for death had begun, and for the very first time, it dawned on me that death was not too far away. The first step in this preparation was to fight death and fight it with all ammunition at my disposal.

About the Author

Monsignor Theophilus Anthony Joseph, also called Msgr. Theo, is a priest from the Archdiocese of Castries on the Island of St. Lucia in the Caribbean. Msgr. Theo graduated from St. Mary’s College in St. Lucia, the Seminary of St. John Vianney and the Martyrs of Uganda in Tunapuna, Trinidad, West Indies, Clinical Pastoral Education Institute in Bellevue Hospital, New York, The Pastoral Institute at Iona University, New York, Glendale (Kensington) University, California with a Master’s Degree in Social Psychology, Oblate School of Theology in San Antonio, Texas, with a Doctorate in Ministry. Msgr. Theo has written extensively in defense of the Catholic Church in St. Lucia and hopes to have those manuscripts published in the near future. After his priestly ordination in 1974, he has been involved in the Pastoral Ministry, serving as Pastor to many parishes in St. Lucia, St. Kitts, Monsterrat and Grenada. His longest period of Parish Ministry was as Dean of the Cathedral and Parish Priest of Castries, St. Lucia, where he remained for seventeen years. His love for the Pastoral Ministry led him to preach revivals in Nassau, Bahamas; Kingston, Jamaica; Georgetown, Guyana; St. George’s Grenada; Mesopotamia, St. Vincent; and Roseau, Dominica. In the United States, he has preached revivals in many parishes in the Diocese of Brooklyn, the Archdiocese of New York and the diocese of Hartford, Connecticut. He has celebrated the Eucharist on many occasions with the Caribbean people in the Diocese of Rochester, New York. On the Civil side, Msgr. Theo was made a Justice of the Peace (JP) in St. Lucia and was awarded the third highest national honor in St. Lucia, the St. Lucia Piton Medal (gold) S.L.P.M. (gold). Msgr. Theo continues to celebrate life in spite of illness, pain and suffering, which has forced him to a medical sabbatical. He spends his time reading, meditating, praying and being thankful to God for all his gifts. His book “A Glorious Journey” is a theological journey, very brief and he hopes it will be helpful to those who are on the journey.