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Patience – The Inner Life – April 3, 2025

Patrick Conleyby Patrick Conley

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Father Sam Martin joins Patrick to discuss Patience

(2:58) Patience is a fruit of the Spirit and a key part of the spiritual life

(6:37) Holiness is humility and accepting help. Sometimes it is more blessed to receive than to give

(13:10) Patience does coincide with slowing down, solitude and time in prayer

(13:38) Contemplative life is one of the best ways we can spend our life in this planet –

(20:21) Break 1

(22:03) Mark – Patience in prayer. I see signs that say keep praying. Isn’t there a point where the answer is no and you should go on, or should you go on? How do you know when it’s no?

(28:50) Prayer is friendship and relationship and not just to make sure I am still “in the will”

(30:40) Carlo – Could you describe the difference between patience and self-control? –

(36:02) Break 2

(37:35) Is there something we can do in the moment to stave of impatience and foster patience in our minds?

(45:13) Mary Lou I take care of my elderly mother. Patience is always on the tip of my tongue and heart. She moves really slow and bringing God into those moments where I want to rush her and God is helping me to stop and be present with her.

Resources:

Humility Rules by Fr. Augustine Wetta, O.S.B.

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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.