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The Inner Life – July 15, 2024 – Moving from Head to Heart in Prayer

Patrick Conleyby Patrick Conley

Father Brian Gross joins Patrick to discuss Moving from Head to Heart in Prayer

  • What is the difference between Head Prayer and heart prayer?
  • (16:41) Are prayers that are said in a boring state still affective

(21:53) Break 1

  • What is the difference between attending the NEC and experiencing it?
  • (27:41) What does it mean to be vulnerable in our prayer both in the heart and the mind?
  • Pat -A woman I’m trying to bring into the Church, she believes abortion is sometimes needed .  And shed oesn’wa t to change her mind.  We think she can’t be baptized, because of her belief.  What you think?

(40:45) Break 2

  • Jim – How to get your mind wrapped around God.   When I pray the rosary, it’s by rote.  My mind is saying the words, but my intention is on something else.
  • (46:42) Mary Lou – The Spiritual Exercises of Ignatius, and they really were the reason why I was able to go from head to heart.

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Patrick Conley

Patrick Conley

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.