The Inner Life – July 25, 2024 – Prayer Routine

Father Michael Hurley joins Patrick to discuss Prayer Routine

  • (7:04) What is prayer?
  • Starting prayer first thing in the morning
  • Emil from a listen who says that excellence is a
  • (18:16) Rocco – Want to give my input of my routine: Daily Mass, Daily Rosary, Chaplet at 3pm.  And about spontaneity on prayer life…

(22:05) Break 1

  • Father talks about routine needing Space Time and Reason.
  • (25:03) Is there a danger to getting too locked into a prayer routine?
  • Marie – Sometimes prayer or the rosary becomes a routine but you are not really present. You need devotion and sacrifice as well.
  • Fr. Bill – One good way to establish a prayer routine is to include the Liturgy of the hours, that allows spontaneity as well.

(39:04) Break 2

  • How do you maintain a prayer routine in a community?
  • (42:37) When should you change up your prayer routine?
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.