The Patrick Madrid Show: December 01, 2023 - Hour 3
The Patrick Madrid Show
Relevant Radio
4.8 • 588 Ratings
🗓️ 1 December 2023
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Fr. Matthew Spencer talks with a caller seeking advice concerning a family navigating the delicate moral and spiritual considerations surrounding in vitro fertilization (IVF) and what can ethically be done with the frozen embryos. The episode also features a father seeking guidance on the participation of girls as altar servers in the Catholic Church. These insightful and thought-provoking exchanges provide a glimpse into the delicate and complex moral and ethical issues faced by Catholic families today.
- Ted – Confessing a repeating sin: If there was someone who was trying to control alcoholism but is not over it yet, still go to confession?
- Joseph - I wanted to add on to what you were saying about confession and repeated sins. I think Jesus knows our fallen nature.
- Margarita - I was given some Muslim prayer beads. Is it okay for me to keep them?
- Brenda - My friend left the Church and asked me if the Roman empire transferred power to the Catholic Church. So the Catholic Church was not created by Jesus but by the Roman Empire. How do I respond to this?
- Deacon Andrew - I am working with a couple who came back to the faith. They used IVF before they converted. What should they do with frozen embryos? (26:07)
- David - Is it okay for girls to be altar servers?
- Katherine - Why wouldn't the solution for IVF embryos be to implant them in the mother and try to see the other pregnancies through?
- Marge - I became pregnant before getting married to my husband. I didn't go to confession before our marriage because I felt like we hadn't sinned. Is my marriage valid? (42:23)
- Mike - My 16-year-old daughter is preparing for confirmation. She wants to wait until she is 100% sure until she gets confirmed. What should we do?
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Compelling insights, unpredictable conversations, |
| 0:12.0 | encouragement for your day. |
| 0:14.6 | It's the Patrick Madrid Show on Relevant Radio. |
| 0:44.3 | Welcome to the Patrick Madrid Show. My name is Father Matthew Spencer. I'm the provincial of the obloids of St. Joseph, the director of the shrine of St. Joseph out of Santa Cruz, California. But right now, I'm just a friend of Patrick's getting in, sitting in his chair, getting to help you in your life of faith, and so happy to be with you. |
| 0:49.9 | 888-914-9149 is the number to call. |
| 0:52.0 | Let's go to the phones. |
| 0:54.7 | We have some people who have been waiting for some time. |
| 0:58.9 | Ted is calling from St. Charles. |
| 1:01.3 | Hello, Ted. Welcome to the Patrick Madrid Show. |
| 1:03.0 | Good morning, Father. |
| 1:03.8 | Good morning. |
| 1:14.3 | Just a follow up on the confession question as far as, and I understand the full gist of confession completely and I accept it full contrition and regret and repentance is key but what if somebody |
| 1:21.1 | is mired say in alcohol abuse and they really are regretful, but have still not become completely clean. Should they, |
| 1:34.7 | or maybe specifically, should they not go to confession? Or wouldn't there be a benefit? |
| 1:42.0 | I would always, always err on the side of going to confession. And even if the priest says, |
| 1:48.1 | look, you have some more work to do before I can give you absolution because maybe the |
| 1:53.1 | ability to not do, not commit those sins again might be there. That's pretty rare, I think. |
| 1:59.4 | I've never said to somebody, oh, I don't, |
| 2:02.1 | I don't think you're not going to be able to, to not sin. So therefore, you know, you'll have |
| 2:08.3 | to come back another time. If they're, if they're not in an objective situation, that is to say, |
| 2:13.6 | you know, not living with somebody that is going to lead to very concrete, you know, |
| 2:19.0 | object or mortal sins. Then what we do is we help accompany somebody and walk with them as |
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