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Friendship with the Saints – The Inner Life – October 30, 2024

Patrick Conleyby Patrick Conley

Father Chris Walsh joins Patrick to discuss Friendship with the Saints

  • (3:20) what do we mean when we call people saints?
  • Why do we venerate Saints?
  • (12:46) how do you respond to the objection that prayer to the Saints is idolatry?
  • Annie – St. Therese of Lisieux…I identified with her.  We just kept bumping with each other.  I ended up resenting her, but we became best friends.  Mystical life living.  Kept growing in fever and identity.

(19:14) Break 1

  • (21:16) Miles – What hope there is and how do we go about adopting as canonical saints those who are recognized as saints. Those who are Eastern Orthodox Saints so we are in greater union with those churches?
  • (26:52) Mary Lou – St Peregrine and St. Therese.  Little old lady gave me a holy card that was touched to relics.  She said be careful what you pray for. Prayed for something and within 24 hours, the prayer intention came true! Gave the card to someone else and they said the next day they received a red rose.
  • Alberta- What I was a teen…I prayed a Novena to St. Therese.  My prayer was to show me the right partner in life.  When the time came to dating, there was a guy I liked.  I asked for help from St. Therese, and asked she give me a white rose as a sign.  I received one on the 9th day of the novena.

(37:19) Break 2

  • Why do we celebrate All Saints Day?
  • Barbara – St. Anthony.  My uncle always liked him.  He always finds what you’re looking for.
  • (44:55) Helen – St. Jude.  He’s done so much for me.  At the beginning of my conversion, my mother-in-law gave me his prayer card when finishing college.  Had 2 job offers after that.
  • How can we get to know the saints better if we are just getting?

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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.