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Eucharistic Adoration – The Inner Life – June 23, 2025

Patrick Conleyby Patrick Conley

Fr. Eric Nielsen joins Patrick to Discuss Eucharistic Adoration

  • What is Eucharistic adoration?
  • (4:11) Why is adoration different from just praying to God in the quiet?
  • (11:23) Pat – I go to adoration every Friday and 3rd or 5th Thursday. Went last Friday and came to the conclusion that we see the creator of everything we have. I think that’s an amazing thing.
  • How to deal with distractions during Adoration?
  • (18:07) Patrick – Praying the Rosary. What’s your opinion on that?

(21:28) Break 1

  • Dave – Adoration…doing it for 10-12 years. Game changer. Turned my life around and made tough decisions because of it.
  • (27:10) Linda – Question about adoration in our chapel. We have a chapel that is open to our main church. Tabernacle is easily accessible. We pray weekly in a group (group of mothers).
  • Theresa – I was first introduced in 1976 when I was in a youth mission program. I didn’t fully embrace it at that point. I was 16. in 2018…I became a regular adorer. One night it wasn’t my night to be there, awoke abruptly and went to the adoration chapel to pray for someone who was dying. Next day, I found out it was a friend whose husband was dying. Appreciate the relationship with Christ.

(37:02) Break 2

  • What is a “holy hour”?
  • (42:57) Carol – I’m learning to do more in Adoration. Love this subject and learning so much from it. Now I really know what to do. It’s helping to save lives. Grateful for RR.
  • (46:19) Marie – I go to adoration. After Mass, we have prayer group. We cannot go to the chapel because people don’t like the audible prayer. Is it equal to pray in front of the tabernacle in the church?
  • Armando – What is the proper dress code for adoration?

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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.