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Discerning your Vocation – The Inner Life – June 8, 2026

Patrick Conleyby Patrick Conley

Father John Eckert joins Dcn. Patrick Conley to discuss Discerning your Vocation

  • (5:24) what is a vocation?
  • Going even deeper into your vocation.
  • Email from Rob – How do I get over past sins that haunt me?

(24:50) Break 1

  • (26:37. How do you know when you should start discerning your vocation?
  • How is the will important when entering your vocation.

(37:34) Break 2

  • (39:20) Can you miss your vocation?

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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.