Solemnity of the Sacred Heart – June 16, 2023

Father Joseph Johnson joined Patrick for a conversation about the devotion to Jesus’ Sacred Heart. Topics included: origins of the Sacred Heart Devotion (3:45), Father Joseph’s devotion to the Sacred Heart (8:56), living out the devotion (19:13), caller: Sacred Heart played a part in my parent’s marriage (24:53), how the Sacred Heart prompts us to love (31:14), caller: St. Margaret Mary’s story (34:39), promises of the Sacred Heart (40:37), caller: Holy Hour at my Parish (43:13), story of the Basilica of Sacre Coeur (45:23). 

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.