Are You Catholic Because of Jesus? (Special Podcast Highlight)
The Patrick Madrid Show
Relevant Radio
4.8 • 588 Ratings
🗓️ 18 December 2023
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
In light of the breaking news story this morning about the Vatican saying yes to blessings for same sex couples, there was an outpouring of concern and questions from listeners who called to ask Patrick’s advice. Patrick acknowledges that while some are confused and discouraged by certain things going on in the Church, he nonetheless spent a lot of time on the show today encouraging listeners to trust in Jesus, be faithful, not become discouraged, and in particular, to pay attention to the gospel story of the apostles caught in a huge storm on the Sea of Galilee while Jesus slept and they feared they would die, and then Jesus calmed the storm and asked them, “why did you doubt, you of little faith?"
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| 0:00.0 | Anthony in Albuquerque. Good morning, Anthony. |
| 0:02.9 | I mean, basically just kind of what came out of the Vatican today. It's just kind of got me, I mean, for the first time in my life, it's just got me questioning everything, you know. And if I want to stay with the church, I kind of appreciate where you're coming from from your perspective and not being negative and wanting to attack, you know. but it was just depressed and just kind of, you know, |
| 0:22.7 | it was just calling you to tell me where I came from |
| 0:24.5 | and just looking for some direction. |
| 0:26.6 | I'd be happy to give you some thoughts on that, Anthony. |
| 0:29.0 | And I understand that it's a strange time in the life of the church. |
| 0:33.7 | And things are happening and being said and done |
| 0:37.2 | that are, at the very least for many people |
| 0:39.9 | they're confusing, they're discouraging, they're perplexing, and let's acknowledge that. |
| 0:48.0 | This is a time in the church that is different from how it was, let's say, during the reign of Pope Pius XI, the 12th, for example. |
| 0:56.9 | So we're in the middle of something that we haven't experienced before, but here's what I would |
| 1:03.1 | encourage you to do. |
| 1:04.1 | Number one, think of yourself with the apostles in the boat. |
| 1:09.7 | You know this story from the Gospels where they were on the Sea of Galilee and a storm came up. |
| 1:15.9 | And a number of them, of course, were professional fishermen. |
| 1:18.9 | So they knew about storms and they had been in storms and they were okay with dealing with weather like that. |
| 1:24.7 | This was beyond anything they had experienced to the point where they |
| 1:28.3 | were convinced that they were all about to drown because the waves were so big and the wind |
| 1:34.0 | was so strong that they believed that the ship was about to go under and they would all die. |
| 1:39.0 | And the most remarkable thing about this incident is that Jesus was with him in the boat asleep. He was asleep. |
| 1:48.5 | His head, we're told, was resting on a cushion in the back of the boat. And so they wake the |
| 1:55.5 | Lord, and they say to him, Lord, don't you care? Like, don't you realize we are about to die? |
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