Hope in the Jubilee Year – The Inner Life – February 6, 2025

Fr. Robert Kroll joins Patrick to discuss Hope in the Jubilee Year

  • (2:32) What is a Jubilee Year?
  • What is hope and how can we grow it during this year?
  • (19:07) what does Saint Thomas Aquinas teach us about hope?

(27:00) Break 1

  • What is despair and how does the will play a role in it?
  • How do we hold onto hope when in mortal sin?
  • (40:58) Christina – in regards to the brown scapular. is that a way to have hope?
  • How can we grow in hope in our lives?

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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.