Red Bird Ministries
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Red Bird MinistriesServing ordinary families who have been given an extraordinary cross to carry
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Red Bird Ministries is a Catholic, pro-life/pro-family grief support ministry that focuses on bereaved families who have experienced child loss of any age and circumstance, including pregnancy loss through miscarriage and stillbirth, and after birth as an infant, child, adolescent, or adult.
While we operate as Catholics our ministry serves anyone who has experienced the loss of a child. Red Bird as an organization systematically guides individuals and couples through the complexity and trauma that happens with the loss of a child through miscarriage and stillbirth or as an infant, child, adolescent, or adult. We also serve families who have experienced the loss of a loved one to suicide. If you are seeking grief support, please reach out to our Chapter Leaders who are based out of St. Boniface Catholic Church. They are available to listen to you, and when you are ready, provide guidance, understanding and support. Know that we are praying for you.
Therese Drey [email protected]
Rosemary Vos [email protected]
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In the Twin Cities area, there has been a need to serve parents and families who have suffered from child loss. St. Boni has answered the call by working in collaboration with the Archdiocese of St. Paul & Minneapolis to put this ministry into motion, establish leaders for groups in other parishes, and host retreats and speakers. We have a great team of volunteers and lead couples who will be trained and well versed in the ministry. We have surrounding parishes interested in helping grow our endeavor! To immediately find local resources and get in contact with local Red Bird groups, go to https://www.redbird.love/st-paul.
Red Bird Ministries exists to help parents address the profound healing that needs to happen while also honoring the memory of the child throughout their grief journey. Red Bird Ministries is mission driven to touch an area of grief that no other ministry has done so far – by creating a Catholic grief support program exclusively for parents who have experienced the unthinkable, the loss of their child.
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resources for parishes and grieving families:
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Spiritual support such as the Red Bird Ministries Annual Mass of Remembrance and Memorial Wall:
- Red Bird Ministries app, designed to bring grieving families together to support each other in community
- Pastoral services such as a comfort call, spiritual direction, or access to a Catholic therapist
- Healing boxes designed to support families you know who have experienced a loss
- Support for grieving siblings
- Local chapters to foster support and healing
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Why Red Bird?
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Red Bird Ministries exists to help parents address the profound healing that needs to happen while also honoring the memory of the child throughout their grief journey. Redbird.love. Although statistics reveal thousands of families have experienced the loss of a child, pregnancy and infant loss is largely an untouched subject by mainstream culture and even within the Catholic Church. Thousands of parishes and families have sought the expertise of Red Bird Ministries, a non-profit organization that specializes in compassionate support infused with the Catholic faith for those who have experienced child loss of any age and circumstance. Red Bird Ministries invites people to consider how their response to loss shapes their outlook on the dignity and value of human life. Although it’s something that is not typically talked about, pregnancy and infant loss is all too common:- 1-in-4 pregnancies ends in miscarriage before 20 weeks
- 1-in-160 pregnancies ends in stillbirth
- 1-in-250 babies die before 1 month old
1-in-333 babies is diagnosed in utero with a life-limiting diagnosis, and parents are told they should consider aborting their baby instead of carrying to term The founders of Red Bird Ministries, Ryan, and Kelly Breaux, say most people are uncomfortable talking about it, even in pro-life circles. After the loss of their son Talon at 15 days old and his twin sister Emma Grace three years later, the Breaux family began their path of grief and healing, a process which they say would have been impossible without the grace of the sacraments. They endured loss two more times when they miscarried their son Christian Ryan at 12 weeks and daughter Eva Catherine at six weeks.
“After the death of each child, I met a world that was silent about my loss. There were days when my pain felt like a bad dream. I couldn’t talk about my children because those around me were uncomfortable,” Kelly said. Ryan and Kelly say that acknowledging the loss and approaching those who are grieving is a key ingredient to a pro-life worldview. “When the world does not acknowledge your loss, you feel like you have no right to share about your child.” After navigating these losses, the couple was drawn to ministering to those who have suffered the same pain, officially founding Red Bird Ministries in 2018 as a pro-life, pro-family, Catholic approach to grief. “We have to be careful about how we deal with grieving families. We cannot advocate for someone not to end their child’s life through abortion and then fail to acknowledge the loss of a child through miscarriage. It is important to acknowledge the unrepeatable beauty of each and every human life, no matter how long they have existed on earth,” Kelly said.
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