The Patrick Madrid Show: December 22, 2023 - Hour 1
The Patrick Madrid Show
Relevant Radio
4.8 • 588 Ratings
🗓️ 22 December 2023
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Special Guest Host Father Matthew Spencer discusses the upcoming Christmas celebration and addresses common misconceptions about the holiday's origins. He delves into the significance of the Christmas novena and distinguishes between healthy spiritual practices and superstitious motives.
- Why is Christmas on December 25? (04:17)
- Joseph - What's the difference between a healthy novena and a superstitious one?
- Craig - Sextus Julius (160-240 AD) wrote and thought that Christmas was Dec 25. Hippolytus wrote that Christmas was Dec 25.
- Mary - What's the difference between CE and AD?
- Mary - When someone fights with me about my religious beliefs, I tell them I'm happy they believe in something!
- Carmen - I need book recommendations for someone who is not Catholic. This person is interested in learning. I purchased The Seven Story Mountain & the Four Loves by CS Lewis. Are those OK?
- Christina - My grandson's teacher told him not to make the Sign of the Cross when he says the Glory Be.
- Therese - How do we overcome the feelings of inadequacy before Christmas? (45:33)
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | 250 strands of lights 100 individual bulbs per strand for strand for a grand total of 25,000 imported Italian quickolite. |
| 0:10.5 | Predictable conversations, encouragement for your day. |
| 0:14.7 | It's the Patrick Madrid Show on relevant radio. |
| 0:20.8 | What a way to start the show. Welcome to the Patch Madrid show. I'm Father Matthew Spencer, |
| 0:27.8 | really blessed, so blessed to be with you today, this final day, weekday before Christmas rolls around. |
| 0:37.8 | Of course we have Saturday and Sunday leading us into carrying the momentum and bringing us to the celebration of Christmas. |
| 0:46.6 | But I feel very honored to be asked by Patrick to come join you as he's finally ultimately putting the the uh what do you i was going to say the lintel |
| 0:58.6 | on his tree that's not right what is the word i'm looking for the lights on his tree the glitter |
| 1:03.6 | around the uh the bottom of his tree as he's finishing wrapping up all of his presence i don't |
| 1:10.3 | give presents cyrus so i don't have anything to do. |
| 1:14.0 | Yeah, I think Patrick's on the ladder right now, just finishing that the 25,000th light on his roof. |
| 1:23.7 | He's almost done. |
| 1:25.1 | Yeah, it's like if you go in front of his house, you'll be cured of your |
| 1:29.1 | cancer because all the radiation coming out. Or blind anyway. Or blind, one of the two, yeah. |
| 1:35.4 | Yeah, are you all ready for Christmas? I'm 100% set. Yep. I plan ahead. I did. Wow, congratulations. |
| 1:43.3 | I done good this year, Father. I done real good. |
| 1:45.7 | I'm impressed. Yeah, that's never heard a parent say that on December 22nd. It's a Christmas |
| 1:51.8 | miracle. Okay. Praise God for that. Well, it's been a very uneventful week in the Catholic Church, |
| 1:59.1 | you know? Yeah, yeah, nothing's going on. |
| 2:01.8 | I mean, nothing's happening. |
| 2:03.3 | What are we going to talk about? |
| 2:05.0 | I might as well just, you know, we might as well just turn on Christmas music, Cyrus, |
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