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Grace In Suffering – The Inner Life – November 21, 2025

Patrick Conleyby Patrick Conley
  • (2:24) Fr. Marcel Taillon joins Patrick to discuss Grace in Suffering
    • (2:49) What is the Catholic way of looking at suffering?
    • (13:56) God has 2 ways to be with us during suffering, Confession and the Anointing of The Sick
    • (16:36) Karen – I got cancer and went through surgery 7 weeks of that and had surgery. No one could believe how joyfully I was going through it. I offered up the horrible pain.
  • (19:23) Break 1
    • (24:47) We want to be thankful to for the Passion. It is good to meditate on the Passion when we are not on the Cross too much.
    • (25:33) Teesa- I had lost a son and we went through a long battle of addiction. You tend to find redemption in the suffering.
    • (28:56) Mary Lou – I took spiritual exercises years back where we started first on Garden of Gethsemane. I remember I had an awakening because I saw myself there with Christ in the garden.
  • (39:18) Break 2
    • (46:19) Joanie:Mary has helped me when I was suffering as a caregiver for my husband on hospice. She helped me through some very difficult times.

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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.