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St Valentine: Christian Love – The Inner Life – February 14, 2025

Patrick Conleyby Patrick Conley

Fr. John LoCoco joins Patrick to discuss Saint Valentine: Christian Love

  • Who Was Saint Valentine?
  • (9:30) what is Love?
  • How does Sacrifice increase love in us?
  • (20:50) Shirley – I never really had a good relationship with God and never felt that love. I was going through a divorce and walked into a church. Realized if my ex-husband didn’t love me, God does. It changed my life.

(23:10) Break 1

  • What is Romantic love’s place in the Christian life?
  • (33:21) Doris – I was married 66 years. Had 9 kids. Men don’t ever see the same thing women see and vice versa. There was a movie called Love Story. Love means never having to say you’re sorry. That’s not true. It means always saying you’re sorry.

(38:05) Break 2

  • June -Single life and how people are disappointed that they don’t miss the person they are supposed to meet. Thoughts on being a happy single person if they haven’t found love and that special person.
  • (42:34) How do we understand love for your enemies?
  • How do you will the good of the other in practical terms?

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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.