Trainings:
“Reaching Out with Compassion to those in Your Families, Churches and Communities”: Concrete applications in reaching out to those we know are suffering in our communities, churches and families. Dynamic interaction in learning to be an instrument of Mercy to those we know. How language can bring a message of mercy or condemnation.
Priest Training: Theresa Bonopartis along with Rev Mariusz Koch, CFR or Rev George Stewart, give an overview of post abortion stress, perceptions of God for those suffering and practical applications for the clergy such as reaching out in homilies, and penance in the Sacrament of Reconciliation.
Clergy and Mental Health: Healing for the Post Abortive Client Conference for Clergy and Mental Health Professionals
Entering Canaan – As co-developer of the “Entering Canaan” post abortion ministry, Theresa is available to train on its implementation. Separate retreats are held for women, men, siblings and those who have aborted due to an adverse diagnosis.
Reviews:
I just wanted to send a thank you note to you for your wonderful presentation to the GW Forum on Friday night. Your story & testimony are encouraging news indeed & the feedback I’ve received was uplifting & hopeful. Continue to do great things, -Mark S. Princisvalle
Theresa Bonopartis, whose speaking engagements are rightly in demand, is Director of Lumina, Good Counsel Home’s post-abortion healing and referral service for women and men. Theresa’s moving account of her personal anguish after aborting a son (named Joshua) when she was just a teenager, and her and her family’s lifelong journey to healing and recovery was a unique and moving experience for audience members at day’s end.. – Hudson Valley Coalition for Life
Theresa has told her story on radio and television, and before an almost countless number of audiences. The Catholic Bishops Conference highlighted her testimony in a nationally distributed mailing on pro-life. Little would she know that the secret tragedy of her abortion would one day be known by so many. Yet, it would not be the shame and guilt of the abortion which would send her out on her mission, but rather her dramatic healing. In short, she tells us, “I was healed by the Divine Mercy of God.” -Fr. Glenn Sudano, CFR
Diocese holds study day on post-abortion healing
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MOUNTAIN LAKES, N.J. (CNS) — “No sin is beyond God’s mercy,” Father Mariusz Koch of Newark, a Franciscan Friar of the Renewal, told 100 church leaders gathered in Mountain Lakes for a study day on post-abortion healing. “All of us can be the first touch of God’s mercy. We must be present to (women who have had abortions) with God’s compassion and understanding,” he said. Father Koch and Theresa Bonopartis, who are involved in post-abortion healing ministry, were among presenters at the study day, held at St. Catherine of Siena Church in Mountain Lakes and sponsored by the Paterson diocesan Office of Respect Life.