Anna Carter speaks at the 2024 National Eucharistic Congress. In the sacraments, the transcendent, invisible realities of grace become visible and immanent. The Eucharist offers this par excellence. When we see the broken host lifted high every liturgy, we see our broken humanity taken up into something glorious and new. All too often, the conversation around sexuality and gender - particularly LGBTQ+ topics - becomes mired in political and cultural talking points. But these experiences are not excluded from the salvific work of grace. Join the Co-Founder and President of Eden Invitation in exploring how discordant experiences of sexuality and gender can be united to the Paschal Mystery and Christ's Eucharistic love. Want to learn more about our community and mission at Eden Invitation? Visit www.edeninvitation.com

Shannon's story is a part of Cultivating Catholic Feminism, a brand-new video course from The Catholic Woman. You can learn more and sign-up today at cultivatingcatholicfeminism.com. Special thanks to the team at the Panther Catholic Center in Milwaukee for allowing us to film in their lovely chapel and community space for Shannon's film.

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To keep these videos and content free, please consider making a tax-deductible donation to The GIVEN Institute: www.giveninstitute.com/donate Anna Carter (GIVEN '16) speaks on the Millennials on Mission panel at the 2021 GIVEN Catholic Young Women's Leadership Forum. Become part of the GIVEN Network! •Follow @giveninstitute on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter! •Leadership training through GIVEN Academy: https://giveninstitute.com/academy

Our winning pitch for the 2020 OSV Innovation Challenge, in partnership with Catholic Creatives. We're so grateful for both organizations, as well as the Notre Dame Idea Center and our advisors throughout this process! This victory is validation that people wrestling with same-sex desires and gender discordance are seen, heard, and valued by the Church. If you'd like to be part of our growing movement, learn more at www.edeninvitation.com.

Founder of Eden Invitation, Anna Carter, helps minister to Catholics with same sex attraction and gender identity issues.

Metanoia is a production of The Ministry of The Wild Goose and 4PM Media in association with Franciscan University of Steubenville and the Franciscan Friars TOR of the Province of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus. The series is beautifully filmed on location in the Holy Land, highlighting sacred places such as the Sea of Galilee, the River Jordan, the desert of Temptations, and many of the holy sites in Jerusalem. This 10-part series featuring Fr. Dave Pivonka, TOR, President of Franciscan University and founder of The Ministry of the Wild Goose, leads us on a journey with Christ into conversion. Each of the episodes explores areas of our life where conversion is so often necessary. Metanoia will examine topics such as who is Jesus, what must we do to inherit eternal life, and many other significant matters of faith. With preaching from Fr. Dave as well as personal testimonies from men and women, young and old, religious and lay, their stories will inspire you to seek to encounter Jesus and the new life he is constantly inviting us to. Join us for the most important journey of our lives, a journey of grace, hope, repentance, and transformation. Do not delay, “This is the time of fulfillment. The kingdom of God is at hand. Repent, and believe in the Gospel. Mk 1:15”

How do we meaningly engage conversation around topics that are highly charged in our culture? Join our conversation with Anna Carter, the founder of Eden Invitation, a community for Catholics that promotes the fullness of personal identity beyond the LGBTQ paradigm. We talk about acceptance, relationship, and finding common ground under compassionate orthodoxy. QUOTES “One of the most critical things that is so simple yet so often overlooked, is the primacy of relationship with Christ in all these situations.” - Anna What does the human heart need above sexual fulfillment: love, belonging, acceptance. That doesn't mean accepting the entirety of the person. I feel acceptance and people don't accept every sin I commit. We do have bigger paradigms to operate under but all of a sudden our paradigm within this context just shrinks, and we think, I have nothing.” - Jason “If I love someone well, they stay. And I think that's the secret sauce of Jesus. It’s the woman at the well, Zacheus, the leper—all these people realize, this man is loving me.” - Jason Part of [this] comes down to the individual accompaniment. Asking people, how is your prayer? What is the question behind their question? What’s going on in other aspects of his life and the full context of his life?” - Anna “What would it look like if we suffered with those that are gender minorities? What are your pain points in the church? What are the expectations on your life? What’s hard? What is the suffering and how can I be in it with you?” - Anna “It’s easy to put a wall up when someone experiences passion in a way that we don’t understand. When in reality, there are scorching passions inside all of us. Am I willing to be in tune with my own? Am I willing to be in tune with the way I cry out and to look at you from that gaze of understanding?” - Anna “You can’t take someone into their story further than what you’re willing to go into yourself.” - Jason Lists & Resources https://www.edeninvitation.com/ https://www.instagram.com/edeninvitation/ https://www.facebook.com/edeninvitation/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmgNJ_UWwpyk_i1JlCP2Rbg