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Holiness in your State of Life – The Inner Life – January 23, 2026

Patrick Conleyby Patrick Conley

Fr. Joseph Illo joins Patrick to discussHoliness in your State of Life

  • (4:17) who was Saint Francis de Sales?
  • Introduction to the devout life, How can you be holy in the world?

(18:26) Break 1

  • What are ways lay people can become holy?
  • How does God multiply your time when you devote some to him?
  • (34:34) Norb – Suggestion to multitask with prayer. That’s what I do.
  • Robin – I joined the Guard of the Sacred Heart. I get up and whatever hour it is, I will go through that process. I say the precious blood devotion, and after that, I go to the Legion of Mary, Rosary, and I do my best to go to Mass/adoration.

(38:40) Break 2

  • How is holiness a work of God first?
  • (43:00) Maria – My experience…we all struggle with prayer time. I humble myself and ask the Lord to organize my prayer time.
  • (46:11) Robert – St. Francis De Sales….been reading that over and over for years. What I still struggle with…what is my state in life? What does that mean and how does it correspond to my time in prayer? I feel like I’m always robbing my work and myself by studying an hour.
  • The four books which Father Illo recommends everyone reads.

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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.