The Patrick Madrid Show: February 14, 2024 - Hour 3
The Patrick Madrid Show
Relevant Radio
4.8 • 587 Ratings
🗓️ 14 February 2024
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Today on The Patrick Madrid Show, Patrick delves into the heart of spiritual life and everyday struggles. He touches on why Ash Wednesday isn't a day of obligation and explores the deep symbolism behind its traditions and fasting. Patrick unravels the beauty of post-birth events in Jesus’ life and ponders over the transformation we could experience in heaven, comparing it to the joy of past earthly pleasures without the desire to return to them. He faces challenging questions about suffering, mental illness, and the weight of sin, yet finds comfort in the knowledge that God's love and forgiveness are within reach through confession and community.
- Melissa - I work at a non-Catholic Hospital which provides ashes on Ash Wednesday. Is that okay to do?
- Chelsie - I struggle with bipolarism and it is affecting my relationship with God. I don't understand why he made me this way?
- Marian - I don't like the use of the word “insanity” and “crazy” on Relevant Radio. (15:01)
- Andrew - Why do they sprinkle ashes on the tops of heads of people in Rome? When did we start rubbing our ashes on the forehead? (17:42)
- John - When do you get your body back and do you retain the earthly appetites after the resurrection?
- Maria - If I am divorced from my husband and I went to confession, can I go to communion?
- Bill - What is the suggested prayer to say after communion? (38:08)
- Martha - Why is Ash Wednesday not a holy day of obligation? (42:57)
- Stuart - What is the timeline from Jesus' birth to him going to Egypt? When did he get presented in the temple?
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | compelling insights unpredictable conversations encouragement for your day it's the patrick |
| 0:15.4 | madrid show on relevant radio wow hour three is here look how fast we got to this point. It does go quickly. So luckily, I've got a line or two open. And if you want it, call this number now. So you can be on the air. 888-914-9-8-8-8-914-9-149-49, sponsored by Catholic Order of Foresters. |
| 0:38.2 | Let's go to Vaisalga now and talk to Melissa. |
| 0:40.1 | Good morning, Melissa. |
| 0:42.2 | Good morning, Patrick. |
| 0:43.5 | I just have a simple question. |
| 0:45.7 | I work at a hospital that's not a Catholic hospital, |
| 0:49.1 | and every year they do provide ashes, |
| 0:52.0 | and it's the chaplain that does that, and he is not Catholic. |
| 0:55.0 | He looks like he's Catholic, but I've asked him, and he's not Catholic. |
| 0:58.5 | So I'm just curious to know if that is the same as receiving communion in a non-Catholic church. |
| 1:05.0 | Would it be the same? |
| 1:06.1 | Yeah, it's not the same, but I don't recommend it for Catholics. |
| 1:09.8 | I mean, so let's say he's a Lutheran minister or some high church Protestant group, and I don't recommend it for Catholics. I mean, so let's say he's a Lutheran minister |
| 1:11.8 | or some high church Protestant group, and they do that. I don't recommend it. I recommend that |
| 1:18.6 | keeping in mind, of course, that ashes, they're not a sacrament, so it's not a matter of |
| 1:23.9 | validity. Is this a valid form of ashes? They're just palm branches from last Easter |
| 1:31.1 | that were burned, and they're reduced to ashes, and that's typically what's used. So it's not as |
| 1:37.5 | though, you know, there's a valid or invalid version of that. It's a sacramental. It's a sign. |
| 1:44.0 | Anybody can receive ashes, so I'm going to add a little |
| 1:47.3 | something to my answer to you here, Melissa, at the local Catholic parish, anybody's welcome to come. |
| 1:52.7 | You're an atheist. You can come in and receive ashes if you want to. Everybody is welcome to |
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