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Understanding Desolation And Consolation – The Inner Life – September 21, 2026

Patrick Conleyby Patrick Conley

On today’s Inner Life, Fr. Allen Hoffa joins to discuss transformative encounters in adoration.

  • What expectations should we have in Adoration?
  • The threshold of the doorway before getting into Adoration.
  • Martha – I started going to adoration 3 years ago, and a priest suggested I go every week. It has completely changed my life. I can’t go without it now.
  • Break 1
  • Vince – I fall asleep every time during adoration. I think it’s good I go, but maybe not good if I fall asleep. Any thoughts?
  • Eileen – I go in with the mindset of listening. It’s like an experience of strengthening a spiritual muscle.
  • Break 2
  • Gloria – I had been healed from hatred just by doing adoration.

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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.