The Patrick Madrid Show: December 30, 2025 - Hour 1
The Patrick Madrid Show
Relevant Radio
4.8 • 587 Ratings
🗓️ 30 December 2025
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Patrick fields pressing questions from listeners, sharing candid thoughts on funerals, Catholic liturgy, and the discomfort that comes with boundary-crossing moments at Mass. He takes questions about marriage struggles, the reality of affordable housing fears for seniors, and clears up confusion about saints interceding in our lives, using both scripture and Church tradition as his compass. Between updates on a centuries-old monastery’s closure, playful nods to Taco Tuesday, and nuanced guidance on canon law, Patrick blends gravity and warmth, meeting faith and daily life head-on.
- Peggy (email) - I was recently at a funeral Mass where "words of remembrance" were shared before the Liturgy of the Word (00:41)
- Patrick reads and responds to an email about struggling marriages and he hopes marriages can be saved and improved (03:32)
- Bunny (email) – I heard a homily where the bishop said that saints might not be able to hear us or help us (08:02)
- Michael - Affordable housing for seniors: what is our Christian perspective for this? (20:27)
- Matt (email) - If a couple, after years of marriage, become aware of an impediment that was present on their wedding day, but have no interest in separating, would their attempt at marriage be invalid and require being married again? (33:18)
- James (email) - In John 14:27, Jesus says: "Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you." Could you help me understand what kind of peace Jesus is offering us here? How is His peace different from the kind of peace we often seek or experience in the world? And how can we truly attain this kind of peace in our daily lives? (39:51)
- Last living grandson of 10th U.S. President John Tyler, dies at 96 (43:34)
- Egypt Closes St. Catherine’s Monastery: Confiscates Its Property and Evicts the Monks (46:56)
Originally aired on 06/03/25
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Patrick Madrid. I sure hope you're having a merry and blessed Christmas. I'm spending some time with my wife and kids today, but I wanted you to know that I'm thinking of you and praying for you too. Please enjoy today's encore presentation of the Patrick Madrid Show. Today's show stood out to me and my team, and we hope you enjoy it as much as we did. Merry Christmas. |
| 0:33.8 | Compelling insights, unpredictable conversations, encouragement for your day. |
| 0:37.1 | It's the Patrick Madrid Show on Relevant Radio. |
| 0:43.6 | Hello, good morning. Welcome back to the Patrick Madrid Show. And as ever, here's the phone number to call to be on the air. I look forward to hearing from you. 888-914-9149. 8-8-8-8-8-1-4-9149. |
| 0:53.2 | And please send your emails to Patrick at Relevantradio.com. I have one right here, |
| 0:57.8 | as a matter of fact. This is from Peggy. And she says, I was recently at a funeral mass where the |
| 1:04.0 | words of remembrance were shared before the liturgy of the word. And a poem, Desiderata, was read because it was the favorite of the deceased some of the |
| 1:16.1 | lines seem contrary to catholic christian biblical teaching well no need to be redundant |
| 1:20.8 | catholic equals christian and vice versa but i understand what you mean are you familiar with |
| 1:26.6 | this poem and what are your thoughts? I'm not |
| 1:29.0 | familiar with the poem. She says, some of the lines like children of the universe and therefore |
| 1:34.3 | be at peace with God, whatever you conceive him to be, seem to send alarm bells off in my head |
| 1:40.4 | and my heart. I personally felt uneasy about it being read during mass. Yeah, I could see why. |
| 1:45.9 | Well, the first thing to say is that the church prescribes that for a mass of Christian burial, |
| 1:51.2 | there are certain readings that can be chosen from. And I realize this is not one of the readings, |
| 1:55.9 | but it kind of was added to the mass. And that's not something the church says that you can do. |
| 2:05.2 | I mean, there could be some small comment made, |
| 2:09.9 | but eulogies and things like that are not intended for the mass of Christian burial. |
| 2:15.6 | So this was the funeral mass, and that was entirely out of place, according to the norms of Christian burial. So this was the funeral mass and that was entirely out of place |
| 2:18.7 | according to the norms of the church. And quite frankly, you never know what somebody is going to say. |
| 2:25.9 | So the best thing that could have happened would be if the priest had just simply followed the rubrics |
| 2:30.2 | and this was not inserted into the mass where it doesn't belong. |
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