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The Virtue of Temperance – The Inner Life – November 25, 2025

Patrick Conleyby Patrick Conley

Fr. Ryan Brady joins Patrick to discuss The Virtue of Temperance

  • What is Temperance?
  • (8:09) What is concupiscence?
  • (15:19) Joanna – struggle with indulgence with food- tried fasting and some verses that helped me to work on temperance anything else?

(21:20) Break 1

  • What is the proper motivation to gaining the virtue of temperance?
  • The importance of the Eucharistic fast.
  • (32:47) John – best homily that ‘there is no excellence without sacrifice’
  • (38:08) Mark – 12-year-old addicted to pornography and addicted to porn. how can i help this boy grow in temperance?

(43:47) Break 2

  • How do the virtues help us grow in holiness?
  • (49:15) The importance of community in growing in temperance.

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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.