SOLACE: Soul + Grief

About SOLACE: Soul + Grief

This podcast is sponsored by SOULPLUSGRACE serving the San José/Santa Cruz area, offering grief support and grief journeying with spirituality. I hope to help you travel through grief with God at your side. "I am a trained Spiritual Director for those who seek to complete the 19th Annotation of St. Igantius’ spiritual exercises OR seek spiritual direction while grieving. I have also worked as a hospital/cemetery chaplain and grief doula. I believe all paths lead to God and that all traditions are due respect and honour. I take my sacred inspiration from all of my patients and companions–past, present and future; the Dalai Lama, James Tissot, St. John of the Cross, the Buddha, Saint Teresa of Ávila, and, of course, Íñigo who became known as St. Ignatius. I utilize art, poetry, music, aromatherapy, yoga, lectio divina, prayer and meditation in my self-work and work with others. I believe in creating a sacred space for listening; even in the most incongruous of surroundings." BACKGROUND Jesuit Retreat Center, Los Altos, CA -- Pierre Favre Program, 3 year training to give the Spiritual Exercises of Saint Ignatius Centro de Espiritualidad de Loyola, Spain -- The Spiritual Exercises of St Ignatius of Loyola -- 30 Day Silent Retreat Center for Loss & Life Transition – Comprehensive Bereavement Skills Training (30 hrs) Ft. Collins, CO California State University Institute for Palliative Care--Palliative Care Chaplaincy Specialty Cert. (90 hrs) Sequoia Hospital, Redwood City, CA -- Clinical Pastoral Education 19th Annotation with Fumiaki Tosu, San Jose, CA, Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA M.A. – Pastoral Ministries CONTACT ME: candeelucas@soulplusgrace.com with questions to be answered in future episodes.

Publisher

Candee Lucas

Category

religion & spirituality

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

24 Feb 2022

Latest episode

23 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

257 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   23 Oct 2026

   Grief Spending

   Send us Fan Mail Grief can make a price tag feel like a moral test. When we are standing in a funeral home just days after a death, we are not only choosing a casket or an urn. We are trying to translate love, guilt, shock, and legacy into something that feels “enough,” and the options can quietly push us toward overspending. We walk through the prodigal son story as a parable of the “prodigal mourner,” and we get specific about how grief spending happens. A mahogany casket instead of pine. ...

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   16 Oct 2026

   Pain May Be The Doorway Home

   Send us Fan Mail Grief can make you feel like you have to brace for impact every day, jaw tight, shoulders up, just trying to get through. We take a different path here: a slower, softer approach that trusts silence, tears, and the deep wisdom of the soul. Candee Lucas, a Jesuit trained spiritual director and grief chaplain, reads and reflects on “The Place of Rest,” a poem featured in The Longing in Between: Sacred Poetry from Around the World (edited with commentary by Ivan M. Grange...

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   9 Oct 2026

   Pedro Arrupe At Hiroshima: Faith That Does Justice

   Send us Fan Mail The hardest part of grief is not always what happened. Sometimes it’s what it demands from you afterward: action when you have no tools, or patience when there’s nothing you can do at all. We share a story drawn from the documented life of Jesuit priest Pedro Arrupe, told as historical fiction, set at the Jesuit novitiate outside Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. Arrupe has enough medical training to be dangerous and just enough to be useful, and after the blast he finds himself ...

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Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

4 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

3 ratings