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We are the Healing Missionaries of the Holy Spirit – a community of wounded healers, unbounded by age, gender or religious affiliations, but bound by a commitment to healing service.
It was on November 18, 2000 when seed of the Healing Missionaries of the Holy Spirit (HMHS) was planted in a retreat held at Mary’s House of Prayer in Antipolo. The foundress, Joy Dee, together with 21 founding members, who were all former active members of the Advocates of the Holy Spirit, had a retreat which was conducted by Fr. Louie Niez, AM, who gave the name ‘Healing Missionaries of the Holy Spirit’, and assisted by Bro. Paolo Caparino, a former seminarian of the Alagad ni Maria Congregation.
Tita Joy Dee, with the founding members, were given a vision through a process of discernment to bring God’s love to lost and weary souls through the Intergenerational Healing Retreat. With minimal resources but with burning desires to serve God and fellowmen, the first Intergen, as the healing retreat is fondly called, was conducted on December 8, 2000 at the RVM Sisters Convent in San Juan, Metro Manila. It was the beginning of a very beautiful journey.
Conceptualized only as a service team, but the Lord has other plans. His work grew and has become a community of wounded helpers who learned to love another without a judgmental attitude, empathizes with each other’s pain and struggles and learned to be true to God’s plan to be an authentic person.
Today, the HMHS has reached out to thousands of people – young and old, singles, couples, some struggling to live out their marriage vows, others abandoned, rejected or abused, while many of them grappling to keep their dysfunctional families together – all in search of healing.
Not only lay people, but God has blessed this community with the privilege of serving also His chosen disciples such as the seminarians of the Immaculate Conception in Vigan in 2005, the Religious Sisters of the Divine Shepherd of Bulacan in 2007, the seminarians of the Pacem Congregation in Rizal in 2009, and the Franciscan Sisters of the Sacred Hearts in Paranaque in 2011. Their postulants (Franciscan Sisters) marked the 100th batch of Intergen retreatants in Tagaytay in December of 2011. In 2015, a mixed group of religious Sisters from different congregations were reached out in Cagayan de Oro. And before the Covid 19 pandemic hit Metro Manila, on February 2020, Intergen was attended by the nuns of Siervas de San Jose in Quezon City.
It is a ministry unfailingly devoted to bring the healing they receive to others. With God’s grace and mercy, HMHS aims to propagate the mission by continually developing and strengthening the community and the servants and keeping support to provincial community growth.
MISSION
Our Mission is to Heal Lives, through the intergenerational healing seminar-retreat and follow-through spiritual and growth programs.
Intergenerational Healing Seminar-Retreat
We seek for the lost sheep, empowering them to cut the chain of intergenerational curses through Intergen interventions in a live-in 2day-2nights weekend that runs from Friday evening to Sunday afternoon.
A program anchored on psycho-spiritual approach that utilizes both group and individual processing and enriched by significant inputs that touch on critical aspects of intergenerational healing.
The week-end is handled by a ream trained in pastoral counseling
Community Service Outreach
We are committed to reach out to families and restore broken relationship leading to harmony and integration, to all those broken and wounded and bring to each of them to the Lord’s healing grace.
We have facilitated numerous healing retreats in various regions across the Philippines, including Ilocos Sur, Pampanga, Isabela, La Union, Bulacan, Zambales, Cavite, Rizal, Laguna, Cebu, Bohol, Cagayan de Oro, Bukidnon, Davao and NCR.
We have also conducted the Intergen program to private and government organizations both as a healing medium and as an alternative to corporate team building.
Spiritual Formation
The HMHS strongly believes that the essence of intergenerational healing lies in spiritual formation to deepen one’s relationship with God and learn to daily live out this relationship with those around us.
This consist of regular community celebration of the Eucharist, recollections, prayer circles, spiritual direction and Bible study sessions. The Women of Intergen in God’s Service (WINGS) are trained to lead and grow more small Bible study communities.
Why Intergenerational Healing?
All around us, even within our own families and our own selves, we find pain and brokenness unresolved and unhealed. What we feel, think and how we act are oftentimes brought about by these. In many cases stemming from childhood experiences of being unloved, rejected or abandoned by those most significant to us, those entrusted to care for us at most vulnerable age.
Unless we become aware of where these woundedness and brokenness are coming from and seek to heal these pains and hurts we continue to struggle and make wrong choices in our lives. We continue to model negative patterns of thought, feeling and inevitably intergenerational impunity and iniquity is again passed on.
Worst of all, we forfeit the incredible eternal life that God graces each of us with from the very first moment of our creation.
MOVERS IN THE MISSION
The foundress and people behind every activity and who serve in the frontline.
ALEGRIA “JOY” DEE
Fondly called Tita Joy
Because of a life-changing experience, Alegria “Tita Joy” Dee discovered ancestral healing. She saw patterns of attitude, behavior and most especially sins that were brought down from generation to generation. She realized that there are curses brought on by ancestry that haunt generations. Which can only be stopped by intergenerational healing.
After attending ancestral healing retreats and being guided by a priest who specialized in this, she founded the Healing Missionaries of the Holy Spirit. On December 8, 2000 she held the first Intergen retreat in a convent in Quezon City.
Tita Joy passed away last April 3, 2019 after battling stage four cancers for four years. She was a walking miracle as she was given only a few months to live since her first diagnosis. The wisdom, the dedication, the stamina and her complete faith was akin to the beloved leaders in the bible.
2020. Her legacy lives on as HMHS celebrates 20 years of serving the Lord.
The Keepers.
Trained in management from their respective corporate backgrounds, the Keepers ensure the effective implementation of the various ministries’ programs and observe prudence in the disposition of resources relative to the healing mission activities and initiatives.
The Shepherd-Facilitators.
With continuing training and various methods of development on Pastoral Counseling, the Shepherd-Facilitators’ call is to become compassionate helpers and instrument of God’s healing grace.
The OTP Team.
Any program cannot be without them. These “techies” are the action people before, during and after every Intergen happenings be it face-to-face or virtually conducted.
The Working Team.
Able bodied and ever willing assistant Keepers, sub-ministry champions and servants make up this formidable team whose support spells the success of every HMHS programs and activities.
The WINGS.
Leaders in Bible study fellowship and reflection sharing, these women indeed, are Women of Intergen in God’s Service.
The Speakers’ Circle.
Subject matter champions. Their innate aptitude was further honed into delivering talks and topics aligned with and in the lens of Intergen healing.
