The Incarnation – The Inner Life – December 3, 2025

Fr. Marc Lenneman joins Patrick to discuss The Incarnation

  • (4:19) What is the incarnation?
  • God wedding humanity through the incarnation.
  • (11:44) Maureen – I am a catechist for 4th graders. I’m trying everything to explain the incarnation. Want your opinion. Do you have another way of explaining the incarnation?

(18:42) Break 1

  • How does the mystery of the word make flesh make clear the mystery of humanity?
  • (33:50) Steve – How did Christ suffer if He is God?
  • Jesus is the bridge that brings us to God alone.

(39:45) Break 2

  • (42:25) What is the best Christmas Gift we can receive from Christ?
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.