Cause of Our Joy
The Annunciation
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Cause of Our Joy
The Annunciation
Teresa spent 18 years serving at the parish level in catechetical ministry, including nine years dedicated to youth ministry. During this time, she built strong partnerships with public schools and developed a mentoring program that emphasized a child development perspective and positive role models for students of all ages. Her parish work reflects a consistent focus on accompaniment, prevention, and the formation of young people and families.
For the past six years, Teresa has served as the Director of Marriage and Family Ministry for the Diocese of Cleveland, supporting parishes, diocesan offices, clergy, leaders, and individuals across eight counties. In this role, she draws on her background in mental health, her understanding of the human condition, and her commitment to faith formation to strengthen marriage preparation, ongoing family support, and response efforts throughout the diocese.
In addition to her ministry and clinical work, Teresa has contributed nationally as a content creator for the USCCB 2025 Bishops’ Gathering. She was one of 50 national diocesan directors invited to participate in the first-ever USCCB Marriage Summit. In 2025, she coordinated the first Marriage Task Force in Cleveland, resulting in updated best practices for marriage preparation, ongoing support, and crisis response, and she led the update of diocesan domestic violence advocacy resources. Teresa is also a trained facilitator for Catholics for Family Peace concerning domestic violence prevention and awareness.
After getting a Master of Art in Sacred Theology and a Master of Divinity from St. Charles Seminary, Father DeLacy was Ordained to the priesthood in 2004. He served as parochial vicar of SS Peter & Paul Parish and as school minister (chaplain) for Archbishop Carroll and Pope John Paul II High Schools. He then served as Vocation Director for the Archdiocese of Philadelphia before being named to his current position as Vicar, Faith Formation with Youth and Young Adults.
Father DeLacy is a gifted retreat leader and sought-after speaker! He was honored to be the Chair of the World Meeting of Families Youth Congress in Philadelphia in September 2015.
Dawn Vallejos is a compassionate life coach who helps individuals find hope and restoration after betrayal trauma, and the addiction or alcoholism in a spouse or loved one. Having walked this journey herself, she understands the depth of the pain—and the beauty of God’s healing. She draws on inner healing, Catholic parts work, and the Immanuel Approach to gently guide each person through their unique path. Dawn is a Master Certified Life Coach, a member of ICF, and is an APSATS trainee, working toward her APSATS certification.
Her work is rooted in the love of Christ the Bridegroom, offering a safe and faith-filled space where clients can experience both emotional renewal and spiritual closeness to God. Dawn walks alongside her clients, helping them discover freedom, peace, and the assurance that they are never alone in their healing.
Jackie Courville is a Registered Nurse who specializes in case management in the community health setting. Jackie’s personal journey of healing from childhood and betrayal traumas has included treatment in various disciplines including psychological counseling, DBT treatment and coaching through You Are Made New. She has been part of Hope’s Garden for over three years and co-facilitates the Hope in Bloom betrayal support Group. She is also currently enrolled in the Avila Institute School for Spiritual Formation.
In leading groups of men, Michael’s hope is to participate fully, encourage others and provide a safe place for all men to know their heart. God’s call for us in our Catholic faith is to love, serve and protect others.
Juanita is a wife and homeschooling mom of many, a Catholic relationship coach who specializes in working with couples in recovery from addiction, and a woman seeking healing and hope in Jesus.
Jackie Courville is a registered nurse who has been married for over 38 years to her high school sweetheart, Jerry. They have three grown children, and two beloved grandchildren. Throughout her career, Jackie has enjoyed working in community health, specializing in care of older adults and hospice care.
Jackie’s personal journey of healing from childhood trauma and betrayal trauma has included treatment in various disciplines including psychological counseling, DBT treatment, Catholic spiritual counseling, and was ultimately led to Hope’s Garden over a year ago. She currently co-facilitates the Hope in Bloom betrayal trauma support group.
Margaret Jourden has been married to Michael Jourden for 37 years and they have 5 adult children. Margaret has been a registered nurse for 42 years. She received a BA in Theology from Aquinas College. Nationally Certified in the Catechesis of the Good Shephard in Levels I, II and III, she has worked with children from 3-12 years of age and has been a Formation Leader for adults for over 20 years.
Margaret has been a member of Hopes Garden for 4 years and says, “being a co-facilitator for two betrayal trauma support groups has continued to heal my own heart and has greatly enriched my life.” She co-facilitates the Hope in Bloom Betrayal Trauma Support Groups and the Hope Rising Group for married women healing from betrayal trauma within their marriages.
Jenny is an ICF and CDP accredited Trauma-Informed Life Coach, a Catholic author, certificated domestic abuse specialist and — most importantly — a follower of Christ. Her mission is to accompany Christian women who have experienced domestic abuse or betrayal trauma so they can find healing, gain clarity and understanding, and reclaim their true selves.
In 2009, after coaching leaders and their teams in the business world for several years, De answered the Lord’s call to work more exclusively with women within the Church. In addition to speaking and coaching, De facilitates retreats for women seeking emotional healing and deeper freedom. It is her great privilege to come alongside God’s beloved daughters and support them in (re)discovering the healing love of our Lord Jesus Christ. De is consistently awed at the presence and power of the Holy Spirit within each of us, and has witnessed Him faithfully and untiringly leading us to experience inner healing that may have seemed “impossible” and the peace that truly transcends our circumstances.
De graduated from Immaculata University with a BA in Psychology. She holds post-graduate certifications in Co-Active Coaching and Gestalt Therapy and is trained in Unbound Deliverance Ministry.
Marian West is a Catholic Inner Healing Coach as well as a modern dancer, vocal artist, licensed massage therapist and labor doula. In 2006, Marian received her B.A. in Dance from DeSales University and then received her massage training at the Swedish Institute in Manhattan in 2007. She served as a missionary with Heart’s Home in Brooklyn for 14 months, offering a presence of compassion to the abandoned, lonely, and suffering. Marian prays that the Blessed Mother be her heart, hands, movement, and melody to touch Christ’s broken body in our thirsting world.
Laura is a mother, writer, artist, spiritual mentor, and founder of Hope’s Garden. She has experienced the redemptive power of the spousal love of Christ the Bridegroom and like the Bride of The Song of Songs is passionate about sharing the truth of His intimate love for each one of us. Creativity and art have been at the heart of her healing journey. In her therapeutic work to heal from betrayal trauma as well as childhood sexual trauma, she has integrated journal writing, poetry, and various artistic mediums. Laura shares her personal story, her creative talents and the wisdom she has gained from her journey through our healing retreats and speaking events.
Bonnie West is a wife, mother, grandmother, hospital chaplain and spiritual mentor. Through the circumstances the Lord has allowed in her own life and the grace of Jesus’ tender remedies for them, she has come to know the riches of His tender love. Her joy is to share His healing heart with those He brings to her.
“How it breaks Jesus’ heart to have us picking up nickels and dimes off the sidewalk when there is a bank vault of treasure He offers us! He lives and moves and has His being within us. His very life is ours, from being carried in the safety of His Mother’s womb, to the security of His home life with her and Joseph, to His transforming miracles, to all He is in His Cross, bearing away every barrier– and is in His risen life and presence forever with the Father, interceding for us without cease. The same Spirit that animates Him animates us. He came to show us the magnificent, simple truth–God wants to marry us. Be one with us here and for all eternity. Share everything of His life and beauty with us. He does not disdain our misery, but is madly drawn to it, longing with infinite patience to restore us to our true selves. Let us discover His Heart together! Let us learn to live heaven on earth.” – Bonnie West
Bonnie studied Spiritual Theology at Lancaster Theological Seminary in Lancaster, PA. She holds a certification in Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE) in Hospital Chaplaincy and a certification in Gestalt Pastoral Care and Spiritual Companioning (GPC). She completed study of Theology of the Body with The Theology of the Body Institute and Leadership Training with Desert Stream Ministries in Kansas City, MI.
Fr. Allen Hoffa was trained for the priesthood at St. Charles Borromeo Seminary in Philadelphia. He holds a B.A. in Philosophy and Master of Divinity. He was ordained a priest for the Diocese of Allentown on June 6, 2009. During Fr. Hoffa’s priestly ministry he has served in a number of ministries including: Parochial Vicar, High School Chaplain, Catholic College Chaplain at Lehigh University, Director of the Diocesan Office for Youth and Young Adult Ministry, and Catholic Youth Event Speaker and Worship Leader.
Fr. Hoffa was first connected with Integrity Restored in the Spring of 2016. In February 2017 Fr. Hoffa was appointed by his bishop, Bishop Alfred Schlert, to lead the Integrity Restored initiative in the Diocese of Allentown. To prepare for this ministry Fr. Hoffa was trained through the Integrity Restored Priest Intensive to assist those struggling with pornography in their life. Since that time Fr. Hoffa has worked with his bishop to develop a diocesan plan to address pornography for the faithful of his diocese at every level. This work has resulted in the Lumen Christi Commission in the Diocese of Allentown dedicated to bringing the faithful out of the darkness of pornography and back to the bright light found in Jesus Christ.
For matching gifts and planned giving, please contact De Yarrison at 610.287.2989 or de@youaremadenew.com.
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Bloom For Catholic Women offers therapeutic and Catholic-based online courses for women healing from the trauma of discovering their husband’s sexual and/or pornography addiction. We’re dedicated to helping Catholic women gain confidence, hope, and resilience through professional therapeutic support, spiritual insight, educational resources, and an empathetic community. Visit their site for more information.
Our mission at Integrity Restored is to help restore the integrity of individuals, spouses, and families that have been affected by pornography and pornography addiction. Integrity Restored provides education, training, encouragement, and resources to break free from pornography, heal relationships, and to assist parents in preventing and responding to pornography exposure which is so devastating in the lives of our children. We are also a resource that trains and helps clergy in assisting families at the parish level, so that the domestic church truly becomes what it is, the human space in which we encounter Christ. Visit their site and take advantages of the many resources they offer.
Tears… sorrow, joy, betrayal, love, grief, grace…. spilling from my heart, too small and weak to contain the immensity of my emotions.
Sappho, the “Poetress” of antiquity, born in 620 BC, must have also wept tears of more than salt water… tears made of the unspeakable poetry of how Beauty and Love shatter and restore the heart the same as Sorrow and Longing.
I stood my sketchbook on the easel and placed a brush full of water tinted with color gently on the eyes, I let the tears fall and run freely down the page…. as they freely flow upon my cheeks… this is the beauty of weeping… the language of tears.
Finger-painting spirals with acrylics is one of my favorite soothing and prayerful creative experiments.
My broken heart is healed within Jesus’ Sacred Heart.
Watercolor resist of God’s promises to heal all our wounds and heartache.
Join us for the rosary, with reflections from ‘Theology of the Body Rosary Meditations’ by Debbie Staresinic. Pray the rosary while contemplating Christ’s Love for His Bride the Church.
Every Wednesday evening from 8:15pm-9:15pm ET.
We pray the Intergenerational Healing Rosary and then sit in the quiet and peace together for a time of listening to the Holy Spirit.
We use the book titled, “Intergenerational Healing Rosary” by Father Gustavo E. Jamut, OMV for our rosary prayers: “Using biblical texts and appropriate prayers within the context of the Holy Rosary, the booklet shows us how to pray for family healing and liberation going back to 15 generations of our maternal and paternal bloodlines.”
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