History / Background
St. Joseph's Home was set up by the Catholic Welfare Services in 1978 to provide shelter, care and love for the aged and destitute, regardless of race or religion. It was the late Dr. Ee Peng Liang's vision and untiring efforts that made this possible. Read on...
 
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OUR PHILOSOPHY OF CARE
… according to our Foundress, St Magdalene of Canossa.

The core of the "Rules for the Hospital" outlines the Canossian style of assistance to the sick and strongly enhances its formative value.

It opens with Magdalene's reminder of the connections existing between METHOD ("gentleness and patience in approaching the sick women"), MOTIVATION ("we have to treat them as we would treat the Person of Jesus they represent") and GOAL ("their real good"), enhanced by attention to particular attitudes ("prudence and discernment… not to be drawn too easily by false compassion") necessary in the difficult situation of illness.

It follows that the METHOD is a means of communication characterised by gentleness and patience, attitudes which express the Love of God practised above all by Jesus Christ.

The Rule mentions some guidelines to follow for reaching the GOAL with regard to the three objectives of the ministry as outlined below:

1. to comfort the sick women;
2. to instruct and prepare them lovingly for the Sacraments, and even for a holy death if God so wills; and
3. should they recover, to help them to improve the quality of their life.

and according to the Church teachings …

"Human life is a gift and it remains precious even when marked by suffering and limitations. It is a gift to be accepted and to be loved at all times, received without pay and to be placed without pay at the services of others."

- Pope John Paul II, Lent 2002