Patience - The Inner Life - April 3, 2025

  IL: Father Sam Martin joins Patrick to discuss Patience (2:58) Patience is a fruit of the Spirit and a key part of the spiritual life (6:37) Holiness is humility and accepting help. Sometimes it is more blessed to receive than to give  (13:10) Patience does coincide with slowing down, solitude and time in prayer  (13:38) Contemplative life is one of the best ways we can spend our life in this planet –  (20:21) Break 1 (22:03) Mark - Patience in prayer. I see signs that say keep praying. Isn't there a point where the answer is no and you should go on, or should you go on? How do you know when it's no?  (28:50) Prayer is friendship and relationship and not just to make sure I am still “in the will” (30:40) Carlo - Could you describe the difference between patience and self-control? –  (36:02) Break 2 (37:35) Is there something we can do in the moment to stave of impatience and foster patience in our minds?  (45:13) Mary Lou I take care of my elderly mother. Patience is always on the tip of my tongue and heart. She moves really slow and bringing God into those moments where I want to rush her and God is helping me to stop and be present with her.   Resources: Humility Rules by Fr. Augustine Wetta, O.S.B.