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Living out Poverty: St Clare of Assisi – The Inner Life – August 11, 2025

Patrick Conleyby Patrick Conley

Fr. James Kubicki joins Patrick to discuss Living out Poverty: St Clare of Assisi

  • (3:30) Who was St Care?
  • When does something turn from a need to a want?

(19:51) Break 1

  • (21:52) what does Luke teach us about poverty?
  • (31:24) Email – How specific do we need to be about only having 1 coat?
  • How can we reconcile the fear of Poverty with the path to Joy?
  • Mary – I live in poverty because of an illness. Forced to retire early and go on disability. Very hard to feel afraid all the time and yet focus on higher things. God and scripture study. When you feel afraid about health, financial, that can so easily take over.

(40:28) Break 2

  • (42:02) Vince – Father was talking about trust and how that order of nuns could have had a lot of money. What I wonder is I try to trust but I sometimes worry it might be laziness. I hope it’s more that I’m trusting God. Where does trust, but actually doing things you’re supposed to do…figuring out that line.

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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.