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Sunday Bible Study – The Inner Life – September 12, 2025

Patrick Conleyby Patrick Conley
  • Fr. Marc Lenneman joins Patrick to discuss this Sunday’s Gospel from John 3:13-17
  • Nicodemus comes to Jesus by night because he doesn’t understand how it is possible to be born again. Here we have the theme of salvation and eternal life being introduced in the Gospel of John for the first time. Also, the cross is a place of reality and it is a place where God’s love confronts our sins. We need to get back to the reality that Jesus is active in the World today. The way in which he fights is different but He is in our midst and manifesting His love as mercy. The cross is at the center of everything and it is where the love of God brings peace. It overcomes the chaos and overcomes the evil. (2:31)
  • Everything I learned abut love I learned by looking at the Cross
  • Peter – How does the sin against the Holy Spirit come into play?
  • We become like that which we contemplate
  • Patricia – The agony in the garden is related to what the Father was saying…he took on all of our sins and I had a reflection in Adoration 11 years ago I wanted share.

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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.