The Patrick Madrid Show: April 25, 2024 - Hour 3
The Patrick Madrid Show
Relevant Radio
4.8 • 587 Ratings
🗓️ 25 April 2024
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Bill from Tampa questions and disagrees with the church’s Sunday obligation, suggesting it turns a potentially profound experience into mere routine, overshadowing the spiritual connection with feelings of guilt. Patrick responds by emphasizing the profound significance of Mass, likening it to a family meal, vital for nurturing our spiritual bond with Christ's sacrifice for humanity. Patrick debates whether obligation diminishes the sincerity of worship, while also touching on how the Church's guidelines help maintain our commitment to faith, much as societal laws guide civic behavior.
- Patrick continues his conversation with Yvonne from the end of the last hour. She asks if her marriage is valid and if her and her husband are living as brother and sister if that is still living in sin
- Mary - I was upset that Biden blessed himself at an abortion rally. What do you think about this? (13:27)
- Katie - In my area they only have Saturday night Mass, and they don’t offer confession beforehand. (21:26)
- Bill - I don't think the obligation to go to Sunday Mass is good (30:19)
- Jose - How do I make a prayer intention so I don't need to remember to pray for someone? (41:02)
- Miriam - My marriage is getting bad and I am wondering if there is a way I can become a better wife for my husband? Am I committing a sin if I file for divorce? (44:24)
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Reliable coverage of the Patrick Madrid Show made possible in part by Charity Mobile. |
| 0:08.0 | You're doing great, Pat. Just one more hour left here. |
| 0:14.5 | Compelling insights, unpredictable conversations, encouragement for your day. |
| 0:20.4 | It's the Patrick Madrid Show on Relevant Radio. |
| 0:24.7 | Okay, we are back, and as I promised, I'm going to go to Yvonne in Texas in a minute. |
| 0:30.0 | We were just talking about her marriage situation, and there's more yet to cover. |
| 0:34.3 | So we'll do that in just a moment. |
| 0:35.8 | The number to call to be on the air is 888-914914-9-19-49, 8-88-914-9-149. So Yvonne in Texas, thank you for holding. I appreciate it. |
| 0:46.9 | And for those who are just tuning in right now, I'll repeat what you told me, and then you tell me if I'm missing anything. |
| 0:55.0 | So you are very much in love with the man you're married to now. |
| 1:00.0 | You're civilly married. |
| 1:01.0 | You're a Catholic. |
| 1:03.0 | You had been married once before and the church had given a declaration of nullity, |
| 1:10.0 | or as people commonly say, an annulment for that first |
| 1:12.9 | marriage of yours. He, who, as I gather, is not a Catholic, he was also married before, but it was a |
| 1:22.0 | civil marriage, not a marriage in a church. And we were just start, you asked me the question, what are your, |
| 1:29.7 | what does your future look like as far as, I'm assuming you mean like, can you be saved, |
| 1:34.3 | can you go to heaven? And in the meantime, not getting married in the Catholic Church with your |
| 1:39.4 | husband, with whom you're civilly married, what implications might that have? Do I have it right? |
| 1:45.9 | The only correction is when you say, I'm totally in love with him because I love him, |
| 1:51.5 | but the romantic spark, marital spark, has diminished and that's part of the problem. |
| 1:57.6 | Okay, and I didn't intend to talk about, I didn't intend to suggest sexuality. I just meant |
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