The Patrick Madrid Show: December 10, 2024 - Hour 3
The Patrick Madrid Show
Relevant Radio
4.8 • 590 Ratings
🗓️ 10 December 2024
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Patrick discusses maintaining true friendships and avoiding harmful ones. Referencing St. Francis de Sales' "Introduction to the Devout Life," Patrick talks about the importance of choosing friends who align with your values to protect your moral integrity. Learn why keeping a safe distance from negative influences is crucial for your spiritual well-being.
- Patrick continues his conversation with Heidi from the end of the last hour about how to handle unhealthy friendships (00:46)
- Anne - If you put a white glove in mud, the mud doesn't get glovier. It is important to choose good friends. I wish I had isolated my kids more. (14:46)
- Courtney (email) – What is your advice to living with parents or siblings who are a corrupting influence, given that we also have responsibilities towards our family members? (18:40)
- Richard - People need to watch what gets into their brain. Once the brain absorbs the bad it is hard to get rid of it. (27:12)
- Robert - Is it real or demonic when family members appear in dreams? (28:58)
- Jason – I have friends seeking God, but they don’t believe in Christ's divinity. How can I help my friends understand? (36:36)
- Rick - I didn't let my kids have phones until high school. We saw a lot of problems with their friends who had smartphones. (40:11)
- Joshua – Is Catholic counseling okay if it’s over the phone? (44:14)
- Andrea - Can you speak about Pope Francis and Baby Jesus wearing a keffiyeh (scarf). It is Palestinian. What do you think? (46:33)
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Compelling insights, unpredictable conversations, |
| 0:12.0 | encouragement for your day. |
| 0:14.2 | It's the Patrick Madrid show on relevant radio. |
| 0:19.4 | Okay, we are back, and you can participate by being on the program call 888 |
| 0:25.3 | 9149149 888 9149 and emails go to patrick at relevant radio.com so Heidi and Milwaukee we |
| 0:35.5 | just had a minute or so to really start talking about your |
| 0:38.5 | question about friendships and bad friendships. And then we had to take that break. So do you want to, |
| 0:43.2 | for the benefit of people who are just tuning in right now and didn't hear your question, |
| 0:46.3 | do you want to just restate it and then we'll take it from there? |
| 0:49.8 | Sure. I've been reading introduction to the devout life by St. Francis de Sales, |
| 0:55.2 | and it talks about true friendships and false friendships, and it talks, oh, where was that title? |
| 1:03.1 | It talks about evil friendships, and should you distance yourself from evil friendships. |
| 1:09.2 | And in my case, I've got some friends who support things |
| 1:13.0 | that I'm opposed to. And when I've tried to talk them out of certain actions, I couldn't. |
| 1:20.0 | And my husband thinks, should keep these friendships. I didn't mean to interrupt you. I'm sorry, |
| 1:24.4 | but can you give me an example so I and other people understand the kind of thing you're talking about? |
| 1:30.3 | Well, I have a friend. |
| 1:32.4 | We were growing close. |
| 1:33.6 | And then one day she was telling me she found this thing in her house and she wanted to sell it. |
| 1:39.1 | And I'm like, well, you know, that's really not a good thing. |
| 1:42.3 | You should actually destroy it. |
| 2:02.8 | You mean like something from the occult? Okay. Actually, it was erotica. And she's like, it's not like it's pornography. And I'm like, well, it kind of is. And it really is not a good thing. You should destroy. And she's like, it's worth a lot of money. I'm going to sell it. So since then, I've really distanced myself from her because I really don't want that influence around me or my children. |
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