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Peace During Change – The Inner Life – August 26, 2025

Patrick Conleyby Patrick Conley

Fr. Sam Martin joins Patrick to discuss Peace During Change

  • (2:59) Change is around us all the time.
  • Why does change shake us in our lives?
  • (13:17) Jessica – I have a couple of his graduates going to college. People keep passing away. Trying to keep positive during change.

(20:08) Break 1

  • (21:52) Linda – I’m a 77-year-old grandmother. Last September my son passed from a heart attack. I’ve had a lot of change over the last year. I’m going through all the motions because the help of my faith. Looking for encouragement and help through the grief.
  • (35:31) Karen – 25 years ago…in a year, my kids grew up and left, elderly relative passed away, husband had a medical crisis, I had to get a job which I hadn’t done for 20 years. Everything I knew about my life changed. Spent close to 2 years hating life and hit a wall or God and said, ‘I give up.’ I simply accepted this is my life and things changed for the better and opportunities opened up.

(41:05) Beak 2

  • Jo Ann – Life just took everything away from me. I sat down on the couch and couldn’t get up. Couldn’t go to Mass. Never stopped praying, but my faith was there and felt that God was guiding me. When I did get help, it was my faith that got me through. God is good! We need to trust in him and he has a plan.
  • (48:04) What are ways we can find peace in our lives?

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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.