Lectio Divina – The Inner Life – August 5, 2025

Fr. Robert Kroll joins Patrick to discuss Lectio Divina

  • (4:10) what is Lectio Diivina?
  • How can you pray with the daily readings at Mass?
  • (15:53) What are the steps of Lectio Divina?

(22:28) Break 2

  • What is the importance of the setting in Lectio Divina
  • Theresa – I did my meditation on the readings featured on the show. I did a meditation on the night my grandson had an accident. I believe my grandson is chosen by God and I am encouraging him. It’s amazing to be connected to God. Crashed the day I started my consecration to the BVM.
  • (29:21) Carol – I read about 6 devotional studies per day. One of them is the Daily Word which is kind of new age-y. I like to cross check their impression of the Bible. I will read the whole chapter and get a totally different look after reading. I love the concept of reading the meditation and then the whole chapter to see how it fits with Biblical history.
  • (37:07) Marianne – My experience…we were reading in a prayer group…the transfiguration. Very powerful experience.

(41:49) Break 2

  • Father shares some analogies in how Lectio Divina

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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.