St. Joseph's House of Repose

People ask me to explain, I can't...so I went to the expert!!! Camp Attach and Karen has helped so many kids I have worked with.

Is your child driving you crazy? does it feel like your kid is being "the boss" of your life? Are you constantly walking on eggshells?

It helps for ADHD, OCD, and so much more!!

Karen is the founder of the Radish Ranch, She has an amazing passion for children who carry the pain of Trauma often leading to attachment struggles. (Not just kids who have been adopted or in FosterCare, biological kids too!!)Effecting their capacity for healthy attachments and to flourish in society. I have participated in her work with Camp Attach. She works along with a team of passionate professionals.

Karen is a Master in the intervention room helping children process and get unstuck out of survival mode. Listen and learn more and if you are an exhausted parent, Karen is here to help!

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The brain is amazing, and we can help change society. Helping one child at a time...

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/invisible-bruises/202407/how-childhood-trauma-can-impact-the-brain?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR3WEwlVc7rnWQmpn2rzuTv7P1JeYrCbndT2zfsNM3DgA0ZrL3yvFAT4GB4_aem_ScSQQzofCSZrP3ZAKcn9VQ

How Childhood Trauma Can Impact the Brain New research has illuminated how traumatic experiences during childhood can literally alter the structure and chemistry of the brain, leading to long-lasting consequences.

May we extend compassion and grow in understanding

If you know a Foster parent or Adoptive parent who has a wild, uncontrollable, and seems malicious child. Or it does happen with biological children too. But for adoptive awareness, and some Developed Reactive Attachment Disorder. This is a very difficult and scary diagnosis that is often mis diagnosed or not understood. And parents of such children are blamed for something that is bigger then them and they are not at fault for.

It's also a Disorder that has certain overlapping symptoms of ADHD, OCD, FASD,....I hope people can become aware and help this poor children living in a state of terror find freedom. And if you have had to dissolve an adoption or let go of a Foster placement. Have compassion for yourself and please give compassion to them.

I Experienced Adoption Dissolution: A Mother's Decision to Find Her Daughter a Forever Family (Exclusive) As Vox Media Studios revisits Myka and James Stauffer's 2020 adoption dissolution controversy with their son Huxley, a former blogger spoke to PEOPLE about her family's difficult decision to re-home their daughter with reactive attachment disorder.

It's tough but crucial to say it with out sarcasm

https://deborahhage.com/paradoxical-techniques/?title=Paradoxical+Techniques&download=https%3A%2F%2Fdeborahhage.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2021%2F04%2FPR-3-ParadoxicalTechniques-1.pdf&fbclid=IwAR3aRks9iZAuwn8mhqj_QRidHkizUIJqJcnhgC5Y-I5iE3OlW76TtwAW2IQ

Paradoxical Techniques | Deborah Hage Children who have developed different ways of thinking also develop different ways of responding to parenting. Sometimes they do not respond to “normal” parenting styles so a different one needs to be developed. Paradoxical Techniques (Resisting Resistance Increases Resistance) by Deborah Hage, ...

"this rather, is the fasting that I wish. Releasing those bound unjustly. Untying the thongs of the yoke; setting free the oppressed. Breaking every yoke. Sharing your bread with the hungry. Sheltering the oppressed and the homeless. Clothing the naked when you see them and not turning your back on your own"

Isaiah 58: 6-7

I have been reading through the Gospels and the prophets...I consistently hear God's heart for the poor, those treated unjustly and oppressed.

I hear echos of Matthew 25..."whatever you do to the least of these you did into me"

This constant call for us to care for those who can't care for themselves. To not use people for our advantage or gain. To be a voice for the voiceless. To not get caught up in a spiritual practices that we look down or ignore those suffering. But how do we do this well? Oh Lord show us! We are blind. How oh Lord do desire of us to live?

Day 2

of Novena asking for St. Joseph's intercession as we prepare to Celebrate St. Joseph unique mission in salvation history and his mission now as a powerful intercessor in the Presence of God, we ask for prayer that we may fulfill by God's grace the unique mission God has willed for us.

You are the faithful protector and intercessor of all who love and venerate you. You know that I have special confidence in you and that, after Jesus and Mary, I place all my hope of salvation in you, for you are especially powerful with God and will never abandon your faithful servants. Therefore I humbly invoke you and commend myself, with all who are dear to me and all that belong to me, to your intercession. I beg of you, by your love for Jesus and Mary, not to abandon me during life and to assist me at the hour of my death.

Glorious Saint Joseph, spouse of the Immaculate Virgin, obtain for me a pure, humble, charitable mind, and perfect resignation to the divine Will. Be my guide, my father, and my model through life that I may merit to die as you did in the arms of Jesus and Mary.

Loving Saint Joseph, faithful follower of Jesus Christ, I raise my heart to you to implore your powerful intercession in obtaining from the Divine Heart of Jesus all the graces necessary for my spiritual and temporal welfare, particularly the grace of a happy death, and the special grace I now implore:

(Mention your request).

Guardian of the Word Incarnate, I feel confident that your prayers in my behalf will be graciously heard before the throne of God. Amen.

MEMORARE
Remember, most pure spouse of Mary, ever Virgin, my loving protector, Saint Joseph, that no one ever had recourse to your protection or asked for your aid without obtaining relief. Confiding, therefore, in your goodness, I come before you and humbly implore you. Despise not my petitions, foster-father of the Redeemer, but graciously receive them. Amen.

This next costum art piece features one of St. Joseph's House of Repose Parton Saint. St. Kateri Tekakwitha

Though St. Joseph is the main Parton. We have a few we ask along side him to pray for us. That our home maybe a place for those in need of care and falling through the cracks.

"O Great Lily of the Mohawks, we ask that you take our intentions to the foot of the cross. Ask Jesus to bring healing to those who are heavily burdened. Through your intercession, may this favor be granted if it is according to the will of God. By your prayer, help us always to remain faithful to Jesus

St. Kateri Tekakwitha, pray for us. Amen."

May souls who have been victims find Repose

I have had the great opportunity to help at a Camp Attach! I hope to do more! And bring some to Canada. It's amazing! Satan is attacking the family and this is one way with the help of God's grace and Mercy to heal the foundational wounds that often lead to chaos. READ BELOW 👇

Camp Attach is a week-long family camp that provides parents with tools, techniques, and support to help heal their children with Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD). Children learn and practice new behaviour techniques, and spend time bonding with their parents. Healthy siblings who display Respectful, Responsible, and Fun to be around behaviour get to join a special Crew and spend the week in guided activities and games!

The camp staff spends the week teaching parents about trauma, RAD, and therapeutic parenting; helping children in the intervention room to work on behaviour interventions and learn new skills; and running family learning and bonding activities.

Key goals of camp include:
Creating positive family memories
Learning and using strategies developed using brain science and behaviour interventions
Learning the keys to bonding and attachment
Providing support for parents
Providing after camp and follow-up care

2024 camps:
-Branford, Florida: March 3rd – 9th 2024
-Fulton, Missouri: May 24th – 30th 2024
-Clinton, Illinois: June 30th – July 6th 2024
-Branford, Florida: September 2024 (Dates coming soon!)
-Lancaster, Pennsylvania: October 29th – November 4th 2024

Check out https://www.theradishranch.org/camp-attach/ (link in bio)

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So good!! St. Joseph pray for us!

So good!! St. Joseph pray for us!

so good ❤️💔❤️

Grandpa Brought roses for st. Joseph's House of Repose

Let her hold you in times of contradiction

Truth and Reconciliation.....

A world full of contradiction,
A battle in our hearts, our own personal empires.
She appeared to a poor man, to reveal to the world how we were to evangelize. She spoke the gospel in the native language. She came as poor herself. She came as half indigenous and half Spanish. Many babies born as "mix breed" were often left to die and if they lived they were outcasts of society. Mary did not come to proclaim the Gospel in a "superior" launage. But what the people would understand. She came to the poor in 1531 when Europe was ripping itself apart with effects of the Protestant Reformation. But God did not forget us, nor did the Queen of heaven our Mother. She came to show us the way of the New Evangelization. It was not to strip away culture. But to listen and honour the people made in God's image.

Her parted hair in the center told the Aztecs she is a virgin.

The black belt showed she was pregnant.

The flower over her womb, showed she was pregnant with God

She danced a victory dance

The sun which is a symbol of the Aztecs most powerful god she was infront of to show she is more powerful then their sun god.

But her bowing head told them, there was One more powerful then her.

There is much more the image of Our Lady of Guadalupe reveals. But today....as then...it is a sign of contradiction, as Simeon prophiced about Jesus in Luke 2. Some see only paganism when they see Our Lady of Guadalupe, some see Idolatry, and what other interpretations we come up with.
We do the same to each other. We make a rash judgement based on our own experience and triggers. And those interpretations cause our rise or fall (Luke 2:34)
Lord Forgive us we know not what we do.
We hurt each other in your name.
Yet in the midst of all our misery you are Sovereign.
You know the very depths of our thoughts, reasons, triggers, ways.... you know our sufferings. The injustice we face and the injustice we have caused.

Holy Spirit speaks truth in our hearts.

St. Joseph's Prayer garden is coming along. Plus a surprise of wild blue berries 😁

Seeking Repose....Christ alone is that Repose...God alone is the fulfilment of Desire

Mama Mary points us directly to that

Come Lord Jesus perhaps today

I love being an Auntie ❤️

Happy Feast day of St. Kateri,

I drew this image of her with Our Lady of Guadalupe. As Mary came as an indigenous to the peoples of Mexico she was showing us how God wanted us to bring the gospel to the indigenous everywhere.
But we did not need her wisdom

Lord forgive us

Guadalupe and Kateri's Sorrow by DEEPcallstodeep | Redbubble Redbubble

"Mankind will not have peace till they turn to my Mercy"
-Jesus to St. Faustina

Divine Mercy Sunday.

We lay ourselves before you Jesus. A couple of my kiddos and I have a special prayer it goes like this

Repeat after me

Dear Jesus...thank you for today....thank you for making me....thank you for loving me... Please help me...to love You....to love others...and to love myself...Jesus I trust in You...Amen.

They say it sweetly and shyly sometimes distracted. But I want the words to be simply and known by them. So we do it again and again.

Divine Mercy Sunday...may the world know God's great Mercy

"Mankind will not have peace till they turn to my Mercy"
-Jesus to St. Faustina

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Happy Divine Mercy Sunday!!
JESUS I TRUST IN YOU

Lord have Mercy on us we have fallen short and we turn to you

Today's Gospel reading

JOHN 20:19-31
19On the evening of that day, the first day of the week, the doors being shut where the disciples were, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them and said to them, "Peace be with you." 20When he had said this, he showed them his hands and his side. Then the disciples were glad when they saw the Lord. 21Jesus said to them again, "Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, even so I send you." 22And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and said to them, "Receive the Holy Spirit. 23If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven; if you retain the sins of any, they are retained." 24Now Thomas, one of the twelve, called the Twin, was not with them when Jesus came. 25So the other disciples told him, "We have seen the Lord." But he said to them, "Unless I see in his hands the print of the nails, and place my finger in the mark of the nails, and place my hand in his side, I will not believe." 26Eight days later, his disciples were again in the house, and Thomas was with them. The doors were shut, but Jesus came and stood among them, and said, "Peace be with you." 27Then he said to Thomas, "Put your finger here, and see my hands; and put out your hand, and place it in my side; do not be faithless, but believing." 28Thomas answered him, "My Lord and my God!" 29Jesus said to him, "Have you believed because you have seen me? Blessed are those who have not seen and yet believe." 30Now Jesus did many other signs in the presence of the disciples, which are not written in this book; 31but these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in his name

I know it's the octave of Easter but...

The Happy Fault when we chose to do our way over God's. It gave So GREAT A REDEEMER!! And a beautiful plan for redemption. Thank you Jesus
Happy Easter my friends

Oh Happy Fault Audrey Assad's songs "Fortunate Fall" and "Lamb of God" have inspired this Good Friday illustration.

Meditation:

Today bring to Me THE MEEK AND HUMBLE SOULS AND THE SOULS OF LITTLE CHILDREN, and immerse them in My mercy. These souls most closely resemble My Heart. They strengthened Me during My bitter agony. I saw them as earthly Angels, who will keep vigil at My altars. I pour out upon them whole torrents of grace. Only the humble soul is capable of receiving My grace. I favor humble souls with My confidence
(Diary, 1220).

My Prayer Response with St. Faustina:

Most Merciful Jesus, You Yourself have said, “Learn from Me for I am meek and humble of heart.” Receive into the abode of Your Most Compassionate Heart all meek and humble souls and the souls of little children. These souls send all heaven into ecstasy and they are the heavenly Father’s favorites. They are a sweet-smelling bouquet before the throne of God; God Himself takes delight in their fragrance. These souls have a permanent abode in Your Most Compassionate Heart, O Jesus, and they unceasingly sing out a hymn of love and mercy (Diary, 1221

Day 5

Today bring to Me THE SOULS OF THOSE WHO HAVE SEPARATED THEMSELVES FROM MY CHURCH, and immerse them in the ocean of My mercy. During My bitter Passion they tore at My Body and Heart, that is, My Church. As they return to unity with the Church, My wounds heal and in this way they alleviate My Passion
(Diary, 1218).

My Prayer Response with St. Faustina:

Most Merciful Jesus, Goodness Itself, You do not refuse light to those who seek it of You. Receive into the abode of Your Most Compassionate Heart the souls of those who have separated themselves from Your Church. Draw them by Your light into the unity of the Church, and do not let them escape from the abode of Your Most Compassionate Heart; but bring it about that they, too, come to glorify the generosity of Your mercy
(Diary, 1219).

Second reading
From an ancient homily on Holy Saturday
The Lord descends into hell

Something strange is happening—there is a great silence on earth today, a great silence and stillness. The whole earth keeps silence because the King is asleep. The earth trembled and is still because God has fallen asleep in the flesh and he has raised up all who have slept ever since the world began. God has died in the flesh and hell trembles with fear.

He has gone to search for our first parent, as for a lost sheep. Greatly desiring to visit those who live in darkness and in the shadow of death, he has gone to free from sorrow the captives Adam and Eve, he who is both God and the son of Eve. The Lord approached them bearing the cross, the weapon that had won him the victory. At the sight of him Adam, the first man he had created, struck his breast in terror and cried out to everyone: “My Lord be with you all.” Christ answered him: “And with your spirit.” He took him by the hand and raised him up, saying: “Awake, O sleeper, and rise from the dead, and Christ will give you light.”

I am your God, who for your sake have become your son. Out of love for you and for your descendants I now by my own authority command all who are held in bo***ge to come forth, all who are in darkness to be enlightened, all who are sleeping to arise. I order you, O sleeper, to awake. I did not create you to be held a prisoner in hell. Rise from the dead, for I am the life of the dead. Rise up, work of my hands, you who were created in my image. Rise, let us leave this place, for you are in me and I am in you; together we form only one person and we cannot be separated.

For your sake I, your God, became your son; I, the Lord, took the form of a slave; I, whose home is above the heavens, descended to the earth and beneath the earth. For your sake, for the sake of man, I became like a man without help, free among the dead. For the sake of you, who left a garden, I was betrayed to the Jews in a garden, and I was crucified in a garden.

See on my face the spittle I received in order to restore to you the life I once breathed into you. See there the marks of the blows I received in order to refashion you