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Gospel For The 5th Sunday Of Lent – The Inner Life – April 4, 2025

Patrick Conleyby Patrick Conley

Father Alan Hoffa joins Patrick to discuss the Gospel for the 5th Sunday of Lent

  • (4:56) Jesus Wants to remind us of our personhood
  • (8:14) What is Jesus doing with and for this woman
  • (9:41) Father Reads the Gospel.
  • (18:57) Break 1
  • (23:26) John – What struck me was Go and sin no more…that’s a hard thing to do. At least for me.
  • (29:03) – Pharisees keep people from coming back to the Sacraments and the Church. When people put on that exterior persona, people think that they are not perfect like those people so why bother.
  • (3:32) Break 2
  • (41:12) – When we encounter Jesus our lives become different. My life is different now. Let your word transform my heart in the way that I need it now. That disposition allows the word of God to penetrate our hearts and transform us.
  • (45:27) – Carolyn – I feel like one of the Pharisees, when it comes to judging. My husband was an adulterer, and I’m working on forgiving and more so forgiving the woman.

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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.