Charitable Chastisement – The Inner Life – April 15, 2025 [ENCORE]

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Father Bobby Bloodjoins Patrick to discuss Charitable Chastisement

  • How do you discern when to offer correction to someone?
  • (14:14) Judy – I wish somebody had loved me enough to chastise me. I walked away from faith, husband, etc. Nobody said Judy…you can’t do this. I think it’s important that we love enough to do that. I’ve come back to God and I know how much he loves me. It took a long time to accept the fact that he forgave me.
  • (17:57) Thomas – I do sales for a living. When you have the truth and a way to convey it…chastisement, etc. tonality and all are everything. One of the ways to chastise is to site another source. Another way is the tonality…like… raising the voice. Coming from a place of love.

(22:16) Break 1

  • What are things we can say to help build a relationship?
  • (25:11) Mary – My sister was seriously ill. Didn’t realize it was terminal. I told her she had to get it together because she was very ill. I talked to a priest and he went to see her and everything was taken care of.
  • Patty – I have been wanting to control my husband who is living in sin and the Lord told me what to do in talking with him and it worked out great!

(37:36) Break 2

  • Isabelle – My dad wasn’t a Catholic. He was sick…92…and I used to go to church every day. I asked a lady from church if she could take a priest to see him. He went to confession and received the Eucharist. 9 days later…he died.
  • (41:36) Candy – How do I talk to a 3 and 8-year-old about accepting correction or even correct them? I’m a mother of 3. I don’t know how to better handle it.
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.