We are so grateful to our Monthly Sponsor, Lisa, for her ongoing support! In April, Lisa's support made it possible for us to ship one of our international care packages (international shipping prices are crazy!). This care package was part of our Siena Sisters Online Healing Retreat for bereaved mothers. Thank you, Lisa! |
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These fourteen care packages were sent to retreatants in the 2023 Siena Sisters Retreat. Included in these care packages were fourteen prayer shawls; fourteen personalized journals; fourteen bookmarks; twelve books and eleven tissue holders. These items are meant to bless the mothers who plan to attend the Siena Sisters Online Pregnancy and Infant Loss Healing Retreat. Gina Peterson, Executive Director of the Catholic Nursing Mothers' League, donated the books used for the retreat. Team Tiny Treasures Members, Kay, knitted several of the prayer shawls, donated the bookmarks, and sewed the tissue holders. Marilyn sewed many of the prayer shawls. I sewed the journal covers, knitted two of the prayer shawls, and lettered the mothers' names.
Our thanks go out to Rosemary, for your financial gift that will help us to provide our free online Siena Sisters Healing Retreat on April 29 for mothers who have experienced perinatal loss. Thanks so much!!
On Saturday evening of Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Day, Tiny Treasures was honored to host the second annual Wave of Light Retreat at the Church of St. Michael in Stillwater, Minnesota, co-sponsored with the Respect Life Committee of the Churches of St. Michael, St. Mary, and St. Charles. As part of the evening, we prayed, shared our stories, and talked about the myths of grief and the spiritual truths about grief. Parents were invited to honor the memory of their little ones by putting their names on seed-embedded butterflies and hanging them on our "Tree of Life" (new this year). The butterflies can be planted and will sprout into beautiful wildflowers. Finally, Tiny Treasures, in a small display, shared some of the appropriately sized clothing that we make for babies who pass away at any stage in pregnancy, during birth, or early in infancy. It was a beautiful evening and I am honored to have been a part of it!
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AuthorChristelle Hagen is the Founder of Team Tiny Treasures and a certified birth and bereavement doula. Archives
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