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The Inner Life – October 22, 2024 – Prayer Routine

Patrick Conleyby Patrick Conley

Father Bobby Blood joins Patrick to discuss Prayer Routine

  • (5:50) how can people start a prayer routine?
  • (13:35) John – Used to get up early in the morning and not remember what I prayed.  Now I get up move around and get into one of the readings of the Mass.  Always start with gratitude for the day.
  • Mary Lou – My prayer routine, over the years it has grown and matured.  Pray the Rosary and do other things during my prayer and contemplative prayer.  It has matured to where I feel more comfortable in contemplative, quiet prayer rather than vocal prayer.

(22:16) Break 1

  • When do you know when to persist and when to pivot in prayer?
  • (29:19) What to do in dryness of prayer?
  • (33:31) Mary – My routine is to pray slower, meditate on everything I’m saying.

(37:53) Break 2

  • What re external effects on prayers?
  • (43:00) Bridget – I have a prayer habit everyday.  I pray my rosary on porch.  Going to have surgery for lung cancer.  Everyone tells me to have faith, but you still worry.  How do you combat that?
  • Teresa – I always thank God for breath and life every morning.  When I say the memorare, I say ‘holy family.’  It gives me comfort throughout the day.

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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.