The book called "YOU ARE MINE NOW" details Joe's life and Spiritual Journey.

Joseph Livingston's whole faith journey is entirely dependent on the immense love of God the Father. Exploding like a volcano in March of 1993, his path towards Jesus and Mary was greatly illuminated, and this glow allowed his heart, mind and soul to flourish.

Joe shows, even those with a tiny grain of faith, how to harness and empower their spiritual journey, leading to a more peaceful and fruitful journey of faith.

​"Thought provoking and interesting." Bishop Joseph Toal, Motherwell Diocese, Scotland.

​Book Price is £11.45 and can be found on Amazon UK and Amazon Kindle here and book shops.

​Review:

Joseph Livingston is not the typical evangelist, nor is he a typical Catholic. His story began in the usual way, but he experienced God-inspired moments along the way until he realized God was speaking to him. Born and raised in Scotland, Joe was hit by a car (miraculously with no injuries) and spent most of his teens and young adult life leading an adventurous life, working as an engineer, practicing the martial arts, and travelling all over the world. As he grew older and more mature, he began hearing God’s voice, then he visited Jerusalem and Medjugorje. Really, Joe’s journey is every Christian’s journey: to be closer to God and to give our lives to God.

You Are Mine Now  is a collection of seven short volumes about Joe’s life and his journey to becoming a faithful Catholic. It is interesting and compelling and at the same time, Joe’s unique narrative makes me feel like I’m sitting beside -- and listening to -- a great storyteller.

I highly recommend You Are Mine Now. It’s easy to read in short spurts. If you ever questioned your relationship with God or you know someone who is questioning their relationship with God, I highly recommend giving them a copy of this powerful book.

Ellen Gable Hrkach

Award-Winning Author, Editor, Publisher, Book Coach, NFP Teacher, Speaker

​Review:

​I felt this book was a real gift when God placed this book in my path and after reading it I have a real conviction that Joe Livingston’s “You are Mine Now” is one of the most important books I will ever read on my own faith journey. I am convinced that this will become one of Catholicism’s classic texts and have an important part to play in our Church’s history. This is a story of how God dramatically intervened in Joe’s life, an ordinary soul, and changed it forever. This single conversion experience transformed Joe from an ordinary working man into one of the most prominent evangelists and disciples of Jesus working for the Glory of God in this day and age, now able to heal and cast out evil spirits with the help of the God’s Grace.

As I read through this work I felt like I was sitting at the knee of a wise man steeped in the Spirit of God who was passing on the gifts he had been Divinely bestowed, sharing his journey, insights and wisdom, all crafted and formed in the crucible of a life lived in faith. Walking closely beside Jesus, in close communion with the Holy Trinity, Mary, the Mother of Christ and our Mother Church Joe learned how to live a more authentic faith directly from Christ and is here sharing that story.

Joe encounters God in many mystical experiences and witnessed many graces and miracles that at first appear hard to fathom, however, all his work has been authorised by Bishop Joe Toal from the Diocese of Motherwell who gave approval to Joe’s ministry.

Joe demonstrates himself the many confirmations he received from God for his work, so as you walk beside Joe on his journey the authenticity of that which he writes is undeniable.

This book, although steeped in truth, is not a chronological, historical account, as such. It is Spirit led and so does dart from time to time, place to place. If you approach this book knowing that it is a lot easier to follow. I didn’t realize this at first so came across some initial confusion. I would suggest having sticky notes or a note pad beside you as you read so that when Joe suggests prayers that can be used daily in your faith you can either write them down or at least note the page number. 

Now this is a vast book divided into 7 volumes, but it is an easy read as Joe is not an academic or scholar. You can easily read a page or two daily and still be given many spiritual riches. He does not call himself a theologian, but here I would beg to differ. Theology can be learned in two main ways; one, from education and reading (from scholarship) and two, from God Himself (from experience). In Joe’s own words

“My perspective is very much “feet on the ground” stuff...”

(Livingston 2019: Page 398)

​Joe learned his theology through experience of a life lived in close Communion with God, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit again leading to a more authentic theology. Joe writes about someone he knows well and as such can communicate easily about things that at times can be difficult to grasp. This is one of the many reasons I would highly recommend this book.

As a book reviewer I am supposed to summarize and give a flavour of what lies between the covers, however, I feel the task too great. Not because it is such a vast book, but because this story is about something so precious and Divine I feel I couldn’t do it justice. However, it all starts with a conversion experience in April 1993

(Volume 1 Chapter 12):

“Exactly one week later, I was going through my normal daily routine. At 8am in the morning of the 14th April 1993 at exactly the same spot where I had

shouted at God the week before (Joe had shouted at God in despair shouting at God “is this all there is?!!”), something beautiful and powerful happened that changed me forever.

"A tremendous wave of energy swept through my whole body, it was instantaneous as if a supernatural wave of ecstasy engulfed my whole body from the tip of my toes to the top of my head...”

(Livingston 2019: Page 32)

From this experience Joe’s whole faith life changed from something dull and lacking in lustre to a faith alive with Love and meaning.

What followed on from this were more miraculous experiences, insights and tremendous understanding developed about our Catholic faith which he willingly shares. His ministry moved into giving talks which he is now doing nationally and internationally, to healing and deliverance of evil spirits, an extension of his healing ministry. At every point in writing this book you can see Joe asking the Holy Spirit to guide and lead his writing and at the end of each section Joe shares revelations of the words which have come directly from Christ Himself.

As an example of how extraordinary Joe’s story is I will share one of Joe’s last stories in his book, a last confirmation from the Holy Spirit. Joe was invited to attend a conference on reconciliation in Phoenix, Arizona to talk on that subject and his extraordinary experiences. As he stepped out of the taxi in Downtown Phoenix on his last day in Arizona, he stepped on a small, pink-coloured piece of paper and on it was a reading from Isaiah 40:31

“Those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like

eagles; they will run and not grow weary; they will walk and not be faint.”

This book I would recommend to any person wanting to learn about the basic tenets of faith again or even those who are encountering our faith for the first time.

Joe goes into detail of roughly every aspect of our faith and how we should be acting as Catholics and more importantly, why. He helps us see how Jesus feels about our lack of devotion and irreverence – the hurt it causes Our Saviour. Joe also demonstrates how we should be living a genuine Christian spirituality by giving us an example of a disciplined spiritual life and what precisely that contains. He shows a discipline in prayer is essential to good spirituality and an openness and willingness to help continue Jesus’ mission here on earth. Joe starts every volume by asking the holy Spirit to direct his writing and ends by saying:

“My journey would be nothing without Jesus.” (Livingston 2019: Page 372)

​This is a book you will read over and over again and get something new from it every time because it is steeped in the Spirit of God. When I read it I was reminded very much, but in a different way, of St Thérèse of Lisieux’s Story of a Soul and Julian of Norwich’s Revelations of Divine Love because it is a work of great Mysticism so I feel this has a place among the great Mystics of our Tradition. I am sure as time goes by we will be hearing a lot about Joe

Livingston a retired Engineer from Glasgow.

​Thank you Joe for sharing your story for the love of God and His Kingdom!

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By Joseph Livingston

Many will know the Basilica of the Sacré Cœur at Montmartre, standing out as it does like a shining sentinel on the Paris skyline. Less well known is that this magnificent consecration to the Sacred Heart was funded entirely from money donated by the faithful during the time of the atheistic French Third Republic.

Remarkably, an exposition of the Blessed Sacrament has been maintained there permanently ever since 1855. For many, at that time, France’s humiliating defeat in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870 had been understood as a warning of the need for reparation for the state rejection of religion over the ninety years since the Revolution. One person who would have no difficulty in understanding that is Joe Livingston from Glasgow. After a life of routine faith Joe underwent a powerful religious experience in April 1993, nine months after reading Pray with your Heart by Fr Slavko Barabarić. On that fateful day he issued a challenge to God which resulted in an immediate Damascene response where a voice told him: ‘You are mine now’.

In Joe’s own words, this propelled him to become a ‘Christian Evangelist of the Catholic Persuasion’ and there can be little doubt since of his total response to his calling. A man who previously described himself as a ‘fire insurance Catholic’, admitting to having scarcely ever read a book, has since led a mission of healing and public evangelism in countries throughout the world. Living in Scotland myself, I would underline that it is a very symbolic recognition of his impact that as an openly devout Roman Catholic he was even invited to address the Scottish Parliament.

Whilst it would be an insult to reduce the breadth of Joe’s message to one idea, we might say that, as in the France of 1870, he urgently calls us to challenge the values of the so-called post-Christian world that we now feel obliged to accept. In this book he bids us to re-ignite the tradition of devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, which for some reason has become quietly de-emphasised over the past sixty years.

Joe’s most recent short book is thus The Sacredness of the Sacred Heart, in which he brings our attention to a devotion previously re-emphasised by Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque in late 17th Century France. Like Joe, Saint Margaret Mary underwent a series of powerful conversion experiences, in her case at the Visitation Convent in Paray-le-Monial, starting in the December of 1673. She received a series of visions focussing on the importance of the reception of Holy Communion, Eucharistic Adoration and in particular attention was drawn to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. The aim was to provide an objective focus to help us to understand the diffusion of the divine love, with Our Lord charging Margaret Mary to make this known to the whole of humanity. Joe repeats this message for us by pointing out that small but manageable change can only start from within our own hearts. He reminds us that although the heart is small in size, it is still the most powerful and dynamic organ in the human body. As the heart circulates blood throughout the whole body, it is by our own devotion to the Sacred Heart, we ourselves will be able to contribute to the diffusion of the indwelling graces throughout the whole world. For Joe, the key word here is Love. In everyday language love is generally symbolised by the heart. If we then add to this the Great Commandment that we should love the Lord Our God with all our hearts and all our souls and furthermore that we love our neighbour as

ourselves, it is only a short step to understanding how the Sacred Heart can open up this cosmic potential. In his book Joe sets out the devotion in its historical context and bids us to become involved. In the final chapters he tables a poignant question:

Can we still afford to separate the many difficulties our world is currently facing from the determination of so many to exclude God from their lives? This is a short book that makes no attempt to be a theological treatise, maintaining instead a lively motivational conversation with the reader. Of course, we all have our own role to play but as one overmuch submerged in academic analysis, I am left feeling humbly grateful for the vital apostolic energy that people like Joe bring to our Church.

Review by Roderick Campbell Guion

Editor-in-Chief’s note: In his book Joe mentions that Pope Francis allowed General Absolution for the whole world which, strictly speaking, didn’t happen. Pope Francis offered an extraordinary blessing on the whole world “Urbi et Orbi” on March 27th 2020, in response to the global pandemic and allowed General Absolution under certain circumstances like someone dying from COVID-19 and the priest not being allowed in to hear Confession. Another thing of note here is when Joe talks about heart transplant donor recipients experiencing characteristics of the donor after the operation. I questioned Joe about this and here is what he said:

“My brother had a Heart Transplant 20 years ago (I mention this in my book You Are Mine Now;

He told me that he noticed changes to his character and emotions after the transplant.

He spoke to the Heart Surgeon about this, and he told my brother Frankie - Yes this can happen, 

it seems the Heart contains some characteristics of emotion from the donor.

Therefore, we can see from this how powerful the Heart is not only in a physical sense, but emotionally too.”

Interesting stuff!By Joseph Livingston

Many will know the Basilica of the Sacré Cœur at Montmartre, standing out as it

does like a shining sentinel on the Paris skyline. Less well-known is that this

magnificent consecration to the Sacred Heart was funded entirely from money

donated by the faithful during the time of the atheistic French Third Republic.

Remarkably, an exposition of the Blessed Sacrament has been maintained there

permanently ever since 1855. For many, at that time, France’s humiliating defeat in

the Franco-Prussian War of 1870 had been understood as a warning of the need for

reparation for the state rejection of religion over the ninety years since the

Revolution. One person who would have no difficulty in understanding that is Joe

Livingston from Glasgow. After a life of routine faith Joe underwent a powerful

religious experience in April 1993, nine months after reading Pray with your Heart by

Fr Slavko Barabarić. On that fateful day he issued a challenge to God which resulted

in an immediate Damascene response where a voice told him: ‘You are mine now’.

In Joe’s own words, this propelled him to become a ‘Christian Evangelist of the

Catholic Persuasion’ and there can be little doubt since of his total response to his

calling. A man who previously described himself as a ‘fire insurance Catholic’,

admitting to having scarcely ever read a book, has since led a mission of healing and

public evangelism in countries throughout the world. Living in Scotland myself, I

would underline that it is a very symbolic recognition of his impact that as an openly

devout Roman Catholic he was even invited to address the Scottish Parliament.

Whilst it would be an insult to reduce the breadth of Joe’s message to one idea, we

might say that, as in the France of 1870, he urgently calls us to challenge the values

of the so-called post-Christian world that we now feel obliged to accept. In this book

he bids us to re-ignite the tradition of devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, which

for some reason has become quietly de-emphasised over the past sixty years.

Joe’s most recent short book is thus The Sacredness of the Sacred Heart, in which

he brings our attention to a devotion previously re-emphasised by Saint Margaret

Mary Alacoque in late 17th Century France. Like Joe, Saint Margaret Mary underwent

a series of powerful conversion experiences, in her case at the Visitation Convent in

Paray-le-Monial, starting in the December of 1673. She received a series of visions

focussing on the importance of the reception of Holy Communion, Eucharistic

Adoration and in particular attention was drawn to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. The

aim was to provide an objective focus to help us to understand the diffusion of the

divine love, with Our Lord charging Margaret Mary to make this known to the whole

of humanity. Joe repeats this message for us by pointing out that small but

manageable change can only start from within our own hearts. He reminds us that

although the heart is small in size, it is still the most powerful and dynamic organ in

the human body. As the heart circulates blood throughout the whole body, it is by our

own devotion to the Sacred Heart, we ourselves will be able to contribute to the

diffusion of the indwelling graces throughout the whole world. For Joe, the key word

here is Love. In everyday language love is generally symbolised by the heart. If we

then add to this the Great Commandment that we should love the Lord Our God with

all our hearts and all our souls and furthermore that we love our neighbour as

ourselves, it is only a short step to understanding how the Sacred Heart can open up

this cosmic potential. In his book Joe sets out the devotion in its historical context

and bids us to become involved. In the final chapters he tables a poignant question:

Can we still afford to separate the many difficulties our world is currently facing from

the determination of so many to exclude God from their lives? This is a short book

that makes no attempt to be a theological treatise, maintaining instead a lively

motivational conversation with the reader. Of course, we all have our own role to

play but as one overmuch submerged in academic analysis, I am left feeling humbly

grateful for the vital apostolic energy that people like Joe bring to our Church.

Review by Roderick Campbell Guion

Editor-in-Chief’s note: In his book Joe mentions that Pope Francis allowed General

Absolution for the whole world which, strictly speaking, didn’t happen. Pope Francis

offered an extraordinary blessing on the whole world “Urbi et Orbi” on March 27th

2020, in response to the global pandemic and allowed General Absolution under

certain circumstances like someone dying from COVID-19 and the priest not being

allowed in to hear Confession. Another thing of note here is when Joe talks about

heart transplant donor recipients experiencing characteristics of the donor after the

operation. I questioned Joe about this and here is what he said:

“My brother had a Heart Transplant 20 years ago (I mention this in my book You

Are Mine Now;

He told me that he noticed changes to his character and emotions after the

transplant.

He spoke to the Heart Surgeon about this, and he told my brother Frankie -  Yes this

can happen, it seems the Heart contains some characteristics of emotion from the

donor.

Therefore, we can see from this how powerful the Heart is not only in a physical

sense, but emotionally too.”

Interesting stuff!

New Childrens Novel by Joseph Livingston and Tony Fitzpatrick. (for 6 to 10year olds, but any age will be interested)

The Title of the book is "Oasis Of Peace" (Olympia Publishers, London)

Book Price is £7.99 and can be ordered through Amazon here and Book Shops. Available on Kindle.

Tony Fitzpatrick and Joe, got together to write the story after being drawn together by their Christian Faith.

Many hours of fun ensued whilst writing the book, until finally it was snapped up by a London Publisher.

Tony is well known as an ex professional footballer, and became the youngest Scottish Captain ever appointed.

Sir Alex Ferguson his manager at the time, built his team around Tony, who was only 17yrs of age at the time.

Tony also won the Scottish Cup with Saint Mirren and is now the CEO.

Tony has also written 2 Previous Books, dedicated to his son. The Babakoochi Bear Series is set to

continue, and Tony intends to continue writing more books on the same theme.

Joe is an International Speaker who experienced a very powerful Religious Conversion in April 1993.

Retired from Engineering, Joe now spends his time travelling the world as a Christian Evangelist.

He speaks on a lot of topics including Forgiveness and Reconciliation. He also talks on the dangers

of the New Age especially the Martial Arts. Joe was a former Martial Arts Instructor and was a member

of the PBA (Professional Bodyguard Association) and this extensive knowledge of the Martial Arts

helped him in his quest to Warn people of the Dangers of the various forms of dark self defence methods.

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