Gratitude and Generosity – April 24, 2023

Father Mike Martin, OFM Conv., joined Patrick for a conversation about giving thanks and giving of ourselves. Topics included: how to cultivate gratitude (2:46), growing in humility (10:28), caller: my students read Corrie ten Boom’s The Hiding Place and learn gratitude (14:18), caller: I ask my kids what they’re grateful for at dinner time (18:39), what the relationship between gratitude and generosity (23:55), how to root out selfishness (29:30), becoming generous with our time (41:02), caller: my faith has helped me become grateful (45:20).   

Patrick Conley was born, raised, and baptized in Wisconsin in a Protestant tradition. After meeting his wife, Kendra, through an Evangelical ministry at the University of Minnesota, they entered the Catholic Church in 2010. They listened to Relevant Radio, specifically The Inner Life, while preparing to enter the Church. Conley now holds a degree in theology from Oxford University and has served the Church in both academic theology and grassroots pastoral ministry. Conley teaches religion classes in a Catholic elementary school, serves as his parish Director of Religious Education, and is in formation for the permanent diaconate. He also hosts Practicing Catholic on Relevant Radio, exclusive to the Minneapolis area’s airwaves, and is a traveling presenter for the Catherine of Siena Institute apostolate. He lives in rural Wisconsin with his wife and their bulldogs, Georgie and Bingley.