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Leisure and the Spiritual Life – The Inner Life – June 5, 2025

Patrick Conleyby Patrick Conley

IL – Fr. John Paul Erickson joins Patrick to discuss Leisure and the Spiritual Life

  • What makes it difficult to find leisure?
  • (8:40) What are things that drive us to fill up our brokenness?

(18:17) Break 1

  • (24:39) Leonard do retreats count for leisure?
  • How does leisure help us identify where restlessness lies?
  • How do we remember our dignity as men and women?

(38:38) Break 2

  • (42:51) Tim – can you speak about the restlessness we feel on Sunday night before we start work on Monday?
  • (46:35) Karen – America as a culture seems addicted to work. how do we get out of that?

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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.