Today Gretchen Crowder shares with you the audio of an imaginative walk with Jesus through his death on the cross that was originally shared as a video on the Central and Southern Jesuit Province website as part of a Lenten Series for the 2024 Lenten Season.

You can find the video and access the Lenten Series here: https://www.jesuitscentralsouthern.org/spirituality/lent-2024/

You can follow the Central and Southern Jesuit Province and learn more about the Society of Jesus by following @JesuitsUCS (X) or @jesuitscentralsouthern (Instagram)

Much gratitude to the UCS Province communications team for the beautiful artwork for this series!

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If you think you or someone you know has a story that would fit this podcast, please contact Gretchen Crowder at lovedasyouarepod@gmail.com

You can find Gretchen @gdcrowder on social and @lovedasyouarepod on Instagram.

An Imaginative Walk With Jesus Through His Death on the Cross

Today Gretchen Crowder shares with you the audio of a Colloquy with Jesus in the Garden that was originally shared as a video on the Central and Southern Jesuit Province website as part of a Lenten Series for the 2024 Lenten Season.

You can find the video and access the Lenten Series here: https://www.jesuitscentralsouthern.org/spirituality/lent-2024/

You can follow the Central and Southern Jesuit Province and learn more about the Society of Jesus by following @JesuitsUCS (X) or @jesuitscentralsouthern (Instagram)

Much gratitude to the UCS Province communications team for the beautiful artwork for this series!

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If you think you or someone you know has a story that would fit this podcast, please contact Gretchen Crowder at lovedasyouarepod@gmail.com

You can find Gretchen @gdcrowder on social and @lovedasyouarepod on Instagram.

A Colloquy with Jesus in the Garden

Today Gretchen Crowder shares with you the audio of a reflection on the Beatitudes that was originally shared as a video on the Central and Southern Jesuit Province website as part of a Lenten Series for the 2024 Lenten Season.

You can find the video and access the Lenten Series here: https://www.jesuitscentralsouthern.org/spirituality/lent-2024/

You can follow the Central and Southern Jesuit Province and learn more about the Society of Jesus by following @JesuitsUCS (X) or @jesuitscentralsouthern (Instagram)

Much gratitude to the UCS Province communications team for the beautiful artwork for this series!

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If you think you or someone you know has a story that would fit this podcast, please contact Gretchen Crowder at lovedasyouarepod@gmail.com

You can find Gretchen @gdcrowder on social and @lovedasyouarepod on Instagram.

An Examen Based on the Beatitudes

Today Gretchen Crowder shares with you the audio of a reflection on the next 6 stations of the cross that was originally shared as a video on the Central and Southern Jesuit Province website as part of a Lenten Series for the 2024 Lenten Season.

You can find the video and access the Lenten Series here: https://www.jesuitscentralsouthern.org/spirituality/lent-2024/

You can follow the Central and Southern Jesuit Province and learn more about the Society of Jesus by following @JesuitsUCS (X) or @jesuitscentralsouthern (Instagram)

Much gratitude to the UCS Province communications team for the beautiful artwork for this series!

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If you think you or someone you know has a story that would fit this podcast, please contact Gretchen Crowder at lovedasyouarepod@gmail.com

You can find Gretchen @gdcrowder on social and @lovedasyouarepod on Instagram.

Praying with Our Emotions through the Next Six Stations

Today Gretchen Crowder shares with you the audio of a reflection on the first 6 stations of the cross that was originally shared as a video on the Central and Southern Jesuit Province website as part of a Lenten Series for the 2024 Lenten Season.

You can find the video and access the Lenten Series here: https://www.jesuitscentralsouthern.org/spirituality/lent-2024/

You can follow the Central and Southern Jesuit Province and learn more about the Society of Jesus by following @JesuitsUCS (X) or @jesuitscentralsouthern (Instagram)

Much gratitude to the UCS Province communications team for the beautiful artwork for this series!

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If you think you or someone you know has a story that would fit this podcast, please contact Gretchen Crowder at lovedasyouarepod@gmail.com

You can find Gretchen @gdcrowder on social and @lovedasyouarepod on Instagram.

An Imaginative Prayer Journey through the First Six Stations

Today Gretchen Crowder shares with you the audio of a reflection and examen that were first shared as a video on the Central and Southern Jesuit Province website as part of a Lenten Series for the 2024 Lenten Season.

This Examen is based on a contemporary version of the First Principle and Foundation of St. Ignatius by David L Fleming, S.J.

You can find the video and access the Lenten Series here: https://www.jesuitscentralsouthern.org/spirituality/lent-2024/

You can follow the Central and Southern Jesuit Province and learn more about the Society of Jesus by following @JesuitsUCS (X) or @jesuitscentralsouthern (Instagram)

Much gratitude to the UCS Province communications team for the beautiful artwork for this series!

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If you think you or someone you know has a story that would fit this podcast, please contact Gretchen Crowder at lovedasyouarepod@gmail.com 

You can find Gretchen @gdcrowder on social and @lovedasyouarepod on Instagram. 

The Examen - The First Principle and Foundation

Join Gretchen Crowder as she reflects on the unique combination of Ash Wednesday and Valentine's Day this year and invites you to join her on a journey this Lent. 

You can find all her Lenten Resources here: https://www.jesuitscentralsouthern.org/spirituality/lent-2024/

Loved As You Are - An Invitation for Lent

In this episode, Gretchen interviews Liz Angeli. 

Liz (she/her/hers) is a college professor, writer, spiritual director, and retreat leader. An Associate Professor of English at Marquette University, Liz has accompanied young adults through personal and professional transitions. At Marquette, she teaches a range of professional and technical writing classes and integrates elements of Ignatian discernment into them all. Her research interests include the overlaps of Ignatian discernment, humanities education, and career readiness.

In her spiritual direction practice, she feels especially called to work with LGBTQIA+ seekers and those who are in the discernment process. Liz holds a PhD from Purdue University and a certificate in spiritual guidance from the Siena Retreat Center, and she is currently pursuing her MA in Counseling for Ministry at Loyola University Chicago's Institute of Pastoral Studies. You can learn more about her work at lizangeli.com.

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One on One - Liz Angeli

In this episode, Gretchen Crowder interviews Cathleen Falsani.

Cathleen Falsani is a veteran, inveterate, and award-winning journalist specializing in the intersection of religion/faith/beliefs/spirituality and culture for more than two decades. Her work has taken her all over the world, always with her cameras and notebooks in tow, searching for enduring, transformational stories of the extraordinary in the ordinary (and the transcendent in the temporal) to share with the world. The author of several nonfiction books, she is an expert in her field and disciplines—contemporary religion and culture, grassroots spiritual trends, and public theology—bringing the eye of a trained observer to explorations of external adventure and internal geography.

Cathleen is an accomplished columnist and memoirist in short and long form. She is able both to be calmly dispassionate and wildly vulnerable, depending on what is required to serve best the narrative in her storytelling. She aspires to be brave and honest with her audience, daring and kind with herself.

You can find her at:

falsani.com [http://falsani.com/]

Sinners & Saints Creative [http://www.sinnersandsaintsconsulting.com/]

@godgrrl on Instagram

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One on One - Cathleen Falsani

In this episode, Gretchen Crowder interviews Becky Eldredge.

Becky is an Ignatian-trained spiritual director, retreat facilitator, and author of two books: The Inner Chapel (Loyola Press, April 2020) and Busy Lives and Restless Souls (Loyola Press, March 2017). She leads a ministry that offers spiritual direction, resources, and retreats (virtual and in-person) rooted in the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola. Passionate about Ignatian spirituality and teaching people how to pray and discern, Becky draws from over twenty years of ministry experience to help others make room for God in the busyness and invite them deeper in their walk with Christ.

Becky currently lives in Baton Rouge, LA, where she writes and meets with men and women of all ages for monthly spiritual direction and leads people through the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius.  She leads days of reflections and retreats for dioceses, parishes, retreats houses and other ministry organizations.

A growing part of her ministry is empowering others to use their gifts and voices to share the wisdom of Ignatian spirituality.  In 2020, after eleven years of writing her blog solo, she invited a team of Ignatian writers to join her.  The blog is now named Into the Deep. In 2023, Becky founded Ignatian Ministries, a home of accompaniment for all individuals.  Ignatian Ministries accompanies people with retreats, resources, community, and more to help them grow deeper in faith and walk boldly with others.

You can find her at:

IgnatianMinistries.org

BeckyEldredge.com

@beldredge98 and @ignatianministries on social

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Follow along and contribute to the conversation @lovedasyouarepod on Instagram.

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One on One - Becky Eldredge

We are all imperfect and messy simply because we are human. But we are also loved no matter what simply because we are human. Join me each week as we explore our belovedness through the wisdom of great spiritual writers as well as the wisdom of ordinary human beings living imperfect, yet blessed human lives. Let us journey together towards a better understanding of this magnanimous love God offers so we can build a foundation for ourselves that can and will change the world.

Gretchen Crowder

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