Confession – The Inner Life – January 16, 2025

Fr. Michael Hurley joins Patrick to discuss Confession: Our Lady Refuge of Sinners

  • Who is our Lady of Refuge?
  • (16:17) Nick – All of us must realize that absolution comes from Christ. The after effects are so important – spiritual direction, counsel, etc.

(22:46) Break 1

  • (29:06) Mira – One of my friends was told by a priest that you’re ‘good’ if you go once a year. It’s my understanding that we need to go more often than that. How often should we go?
  • Phillipe – In confession and through the grace of God, first the boulders are removed – big sins, then the rocks are removed, pebbles, grains of sand. That’s the way I like to look at confession. It helps you to recognize those different types of sins…grave sins, venial sins. It’s a blessing to recognize sin.

(39:32) Break 2

  • What if it has been awhile since having gone to confession?
  • (46:35) Esmeralda – When you go to confession, you are forgive, but they’re like stains. We go to purgatory and those are removed. There are reparations…are they there to remove the stains and what do they do to remove purgatory time.
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.