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Sunday Bible Study – The Inner Life – June 18, 2025

Patrick Conleyby Patrick Conley

Fr. Michael Hurley joins Patrick to discuss Sunday Bible Study

  • Opening prayer for Bible Study
  • (5:07) Set up for the Sunday reading
  • (8:07) Father reads the Sunday readings (Luke 9: 11b-17)
  • Father shares some thoughts on us needing to go forth.
  • (20:12) Jennifer – How many times did Jesus preform the miracle of the fishes and loaves?

(23:41) Break 1

  • How does this passage point to the Eucharist?
  • (31:36) Bob – Is there a relation to when Jesus suggest to the apostles to give the people something to eat and when Jesus is woken up by them during the storm at sea? In both cases, Jesus seems to say that if you had faith you could have stopped the sea or multiply the loaves and fishes.
  • (36:02) Mary – comment: When we take the holy Eucharist it is a unique type of food in which it doesn’t become part of us but we become part of it.

(40:00) Break 2

  • How does Melchizedek and the Old Testament work with the Eucharist in the New Testament
  • (46:34) What is the significance of Corpus Christi?

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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.