Welcome-

Our Mission Statment- We Bring the Healing Love of Christ to our brothers and sisters who wear the "Crown of thorns" of mental and emotional suffering; we are their prayerful spiritual support. 

(Click Here to visit our Mission and Values Page)

We offer shared hearts of compassion for those with mental illness and brain disorders

We Pray, Educate and Advocate for those affected by this human tragedy

• The aloneness that Christ experienced can be a great sign of hope. This holds true especially for those with depression and other emotional difficulties. You or your loved one can be enrolled as a member of our Our Guild to receive spitiutal benefits  (click )
• We are their spiritual support. - Over 400 Catholic religious communities are offering their prayers for us. Many people with mental illness have great moral courage in dealing with the challenges that come with the illness but sometimes they feel alone and abandoned. They do need our encouragement and prayers. Read on: find out how to join us in prayer. 
• Spiritual Advocacy- (click image to left)

• Come Pray With Us- click

• See our introductory video below

To Email Tim: Guildbjlabre@gmail.com

New Update for 2025

Our Offical Ministry- MMOMI Support Groups

 ON ZOOM- THE LAST FRIDAY OF EVERY MONTH 7 PM ET

Zoom meeting 

Meeting ID: 854 8047 8973
Passcode: 127712  

To Join Click Zoom Meeting Link
us06web.zoom.us/j/85480478973?pwd=K9TW1RkcOA2k1rza4QTUlLqF8KwFOn.1

Click Here to Connect by Phone: Visit Support Group Page and Scroll Down

Monthly Bulletin: Under Her Mantle for MMOMI Spiritual Support Groups- visit blog to read and download your own copy

LEARN MORE- Scroll Down Past NEWS 25 

News 25-

Coming Soon

• Guild Videocast on Youtube:

  • https://youtube.com/@guildofstbenedictjosephlab659?si=2qnWV2mJuXvSOikg

• Our Own Pre-recorded Guild Podcast

PRAY WITH US LENT 2025

• Stations of the Cross for Persons with Mental Illness and their Family and Friends- Lenten Friday's on Zoom or by Phone- 3PM ET - Starts Friday March 7th

  ​Meeting ID: 853 9548 6129

  Passcode: 504108

• Timothy D is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

  Topic: Lenten Stations of the Cross for those with Mental Illness (Family & Friends)
  Time: Mar 7, 2025 03:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
          Every week on Fri, until Apr 18, 2025, 7 occurrence(s)
  
  Join Zoom Meeting Directly
  https://us06web.zoom.us/j/85395486129?pwd=l5P5tks8qgXKdmtWfVObCQyUYseTao.1

See Tim's Blog for more information

•  Sr. Isidora's Meditations on the Rosary- Lent Weekdays at 7 PM ET on Zoom

• Starts Monday March 3rd, 2025

Meeting ID: 854 8047 8973

Passcode: 127712  

To Join Click Zoom Meeting Link

us06web.zoom.us/j/85480478973?pwd=K9TW1RkcOA2k1rza4QTUlLqF8KwFOn.1

See Tim's Blog for more informartion

We provide spiritual and emotional support:

Prayer, Education and Advocacy

Scroll down to learn more

• I was sick and you visited me- (Mt. 25:36) "But when you give a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, and the blind. And you will be blessed, because they cannot repay you, for you will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous.” (LK 14:13,ver. RC,RSV) We offer a special spiritual care named:

  • Our Treatment of Love click for more information.

• We are Family Advocates- Aloneness, Misconceptions and Feeling Overwhelmed are common experiences of family members supporting their loved ones with mental illness. We realize the spiritual needs of these holy people and the gap that exists in our Church to address the needs of families who suffer with mental illness. Through our support groups we strive to provide, Hope, Healing and Comfort. - scroll down 

Timothy visits his brother Scott

at a state psychiatric hospital- (Scott was hospitalized for 50 years.)

"May we start a new spiritual movement of prayer and support for those with brain disorders and all types of mental and emotional illnesses".

Timothy Duff, STM, Board Certified Chaplain (Guardian/ Co Founder)

What are our spiritual support Groups? "MMOMI"

(TO JOIN US: VISIT SUPPORT GROUP PAGE BY CLICKING ON THE ICON OF MMOMI)

Named after - The Merciful Mother of the mentally ill

(Currently all of our groups are over the Zoom Platfrom)

• Our groups are not therapy - Spiritual support groups are different from therapy groups.

• Our groups offer the sacred space to share and speak about our relationship with God.

  • We learn from reflecting on our spiritual experiences in light of the teachings of the Catholic Church.

• We don’t prescribe a certain diagnosis or treatment plan.

  • Instead, we encourage a focus on spirituality as a means to find meaning, hope and comfort.

• We invite anyone to attend who is searching for a way to be at peace with God

  • while having an illness themselves or experiencing a family member or friend with a brain disorder or mental illness.

• We are Catholic and ecumenical.

  • We welcome everyone

• Each Group embodies Prayer, Education and Advocacy

A Sample Agenda

Prayer Time in Adoration: Reflections on our patron’s life - 15 min.

“Under Her Mantle”: Our monthly bulletin - 5 min.

Supporting one another: Become people with three hearts - 30 min.

Reflection on Catholic Teaching:

Compassion & Understanding - 20 min.

Time of Compassion: Our educational piece - 15 min.

Advocacy: Voice for the voiceless - 5 min.

Question and Answers:

Close with chaplet prayer:

Total: 1 to 1½ Hours

"Our comfort is not in this world. God afflicts us because he loves us; and it is very pleasing to Him, when in our afflictions he sees us abandon ourselves to his paternal care."

Saint Benedict Joseph Labre (1748-1783)

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• Bishop Robert Barron from Word on Fire addresses the current mental health crisis

  Confession a place of Victory