The Inner Life – July 12, 2024 – A Historical Journey with the Eucharist

Father Ramil Fajardo joins Patrick to discuss A Historical Journey with the Eucharist

  • (3:12) – How does the Eucharist show up in the old testament?
  • Eucharist in the New Testament
  • (17:29) Nick – I didn’t believe in the real presence but had a mentor who helped me think about it differently and had an experience in front of the sacrament.   And proposed to wife at adoration chapel.

(20:49) Break 1

  • Eucharist in the post apostolic age.
  • Development of Eucharistic Adoration.
  • (37:14) Nancy – I had an experience in front of Eucharist adoration.  The Lord spoke to me as a lady was crying behind me.  The Lord said, ‘I love you’ and had this incredible need to hug her.   I threw my arms around her.

(41:07) Break 2

  • Email from Thomas asking about how can we understand the Eucharist as a
  • (44:40) Dustin – When I received a calling to become a priest while in adoration.  It was like this thought came to my mind, that didn’t feel like my own thought, ‘feed my sheep’.  I’m in RCIA right now.

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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.