The Patrick Madrid Show: April 23, 2026 - Hour 3
The Patrick Madrid Show
Relevant Radio
4.8 • 587 Ratings
🗓️ 23 April 2026
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Patrick welcomes listeners to conversations that crack open faith questions and lived Catholic experience, sometimes with gentle humor and sometimes with unapologetic candor. He answers questions about happiness, the meaning of friendship with Jesus, and ethical dilemmas like embryo adoption, pausing to encourage those returning to the Church or wrestling with doubts. Calls about family, modesty, traditions, and the value of resources on science and faith create a live mosaic of real Catholic life—messy, searching, honest.
- Hillary (email) – The whole "God wants us to be happy" thing (00:29)
- Frank - I think sin does hurt God. (03:10)
- Mary - I think large families are very beneficial. My grandparents had 12 children. They helped take care of me after my mom died. (13:29)
- Kevin - Modesty works both ways with men and causing others to fall into sin. (14:37)
- Sheila - What is the difference between embryo adoption and carrying it to term and adopting a child outside of the womb? (18:19)
- Josephine - My friend is Catholic but doesn’t want where the Scapular? How can I explain this devotion to her? (23:53)
- Donna - A stranger wanted to hold my hand during mass and I declined. She was upset. Can you help me? (27:02)
- Bob - I am a returning Catholic, and my penance was to go to Mass on 7 consecutive Sundays. Is this valid? (32:35)
- Susan - Any articles or books that you recommend on science and faith? My daughter's ex-boyfriend told her that 'he believes in science' (38:52)
- Dave - My friend is a widow and goes to a meeting presided over by a man who talks about using an end-of-life drug. How do we as a society prevent someone from holding these meetings? (40:54)
- Leo - Where is the line between friendship and servant? (43:47)
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Golly, you sure did do a great job answering that call, Patrick. |
| 0:08.9 | Compelling insights, unpredictable conversations, encouragement for your day. |
| 0:14.8 | It's the Patrick Madrid Show on Relevant Radio. |
| 0:18.2 | We're on the air, folks. Come on. |
| 0:22.9 | Yeah, welcome back, everybody. |
| 0:24.3 | Thank you for listening. |
| 0:25.6 | 888-914-9-9-149. |
| 0:27.9 | I received another email. |
| 0:29.5 | I want to just get to that really quickly. |
| 0:31.3 | This is on the topic of, what do you mean when you're saying that God wants you to be happy? |
| 0:36.1 | This is from Hillary. |
| 0:37.3 | She's listening on the Relevant Radio app, and she says, the that God wants you to be happy? This is from Hillary. She's listening on the Relevant Radio app and she says, the whole God wants us to be happy thing. That's the subject. One of the things I don't like about the chosen, she says is that Jesus is portrayed as a cool, funny, hip guy. I know you don't like that either. But if God wants us to be happy, then why do you and I have a problem |
| 0:54.7 | with Jesus being portrayed in a largely lighthearted way? Hey, that's a good question. |
| 1:01.0 | And I did answer this question after you sent your email. I didn't see your email until just this |
| 1:07.9 | break, but I hope that if you dial back and listen to my explanation of |
| 1:13.3 | what I mean, biblically speaking, by God wants us to be happy, and that we're not talking about |
| 1:19.2 | happy, clappy, happy, or happy, happy, joy, happy. We're talking about the peace that surpasses all understanding that the Bible talks about, |
| 1:29.6 | the ultimate true happiness, which is friendship with God, pursuit of virtue, avoiding vice. |
| 1:37.4 | So I went through all that. There's no need for me to go back through it again. |
| 1:41.3 | But the fact that you wrote this suggests to me that it's, |
| 1:45.2 | you know, all the more worthy of clarification. Now, as far as the chosen is concerned, |
| 1:50.5 | yeah, I share your view that in spite of the fact that Jonathan Rumi clearly is a very |
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