The Patrick Madrid Show: August 30, 2022 - Hour 3
The Patrick Madrid Show
Relevant Radio
4.8 • 588 Ratings
🗓️ 30 August 2022
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Patrick answers an email about purgatory, as well as questions from young listeners about the faith. He tackles concerns of philosophy about God existing before matter, and whether or not we should be watching anime
- Email from David – Can the souls in Purgatory pray for us?
- Les - Are you just making up what the world was like before creation? Agnostic and ready to talk
- Charlotte - what is your opinion on anime cartoon work? is it okay to watch it?
- Therese - What do all the people do in heaven?
- Patrick Answers email regarding anger issues in a child
- Noah - follow up - divorced and just became catholic - do I need annulment?
- Evette - Priest stopped mass to reprimand people coming in late - what should I do? this bothered me
- Denise - How do I defend Pope during WWII that he didn't go along with Nazi's?
- Marie - Illustrator asking me to make pictures for tarot cards. is that okay?
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Compelling insights, unpredictable conversations, |
| 0:12.8 | encouragement for your day. |
| 0:14.9 | It's the Patrick Madrid Show on Relevant Radio. |
| 0:19.3 | All right, hour three is here. |
| 0:21.3 | Thanks for listening. |
| 0:22.4 | 888-9149. |
| 0:26.2 | David, listening in Salt Lake City, says, |
| 0:28.5 | Hello, in my understanding, |
| 0:30.0 | the Holy Souls in Purgatory can be prayed for |
| 0:31.8 | but cannot pray for others. |
| 0:33.6 | A saint declared by the Catholic Church is in heaven |
| 0:36.0 | and can pray for us. |
| 0:37.1 | If the souls who are declared blessed, venerable, or servants of God are not definitively in heaven yet, how can we ask them to pray for us? All right, well, a few things. It's not to say that the souls in purgatory can't pray for you. I mean, I think they can. I don't think there's any reason to think that they can't. I think that based upon what we know about purgatory, |
| 0:56.8 | they're very much absorbed in their own sufferings. |
| 1:00.0 | But the church doesn't say that they can't pray for you. |
| 1:03.1 | Now, a saint that has been declared blessed, |
| 1:06.9 | keep this in mind, in the case of a beatification, |
| 1:10.2 | even though not yet canonized, if a saint has been beatified, |
| 1:15.5 | that is the church saying that this person, we do believe, we profess, is in heaven. |
| 1:22.3 | So you can't be beatified without, for example, a miracle that is scientifically tested rigorously to see if |
| 1:31.7 | maybe there's some natural or medical reason that could explain this, and when all those |
| 1:36.2 | possibilities have been exhausted, then it might be accepted as a true miracle. |
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