The Patrick Madrid Show: January 12, 2026 - Hour 3
The Patrick Madrid Show
Relevant Radio
4.8 • 587 Ratings
🗓️ 12 January 2026
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Patrick answers questions about a parish that is not comfortable with giving Communion on the tongue, priestly celibacy and where it's origins came from, and also does the Church have a stance on ED medication? Patrick offers practical insight and advice on how the Catholic Church handles these and other issues.
- Dave - Should you receive communion on the tongue or in the hand? I recently felt called to receive on the tongue but my parish culture is not conducive to that? What should I do?
- Carol - Why were priests able to get married in the past but not now?
- Email - Christine: What is the Church's stance on ED medication?
- Stephanie - I work at a hospital and it's hard to find any hospital that doesn't do questionable surgeries, according to my faith. What do you suggest?
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Compelling insights, unpredictable conversations, |
| 0:12.7 | encouragement for your day. |
| 0:14.8 | It's the Patrick Madrid show on Relevant Radio. |
| 0:19.7 | How sweet it is to spend time with you. |
| 0:22.2 | Thank you for listening to the program. |
| 0:24.1 | Tell your friends, please. |
| 0:25.9 | And here's the number to call, 88-914-9-149. |
| 0:29.7 | We'll start off with Dave in Virginia. |
| 0:31.3 | Good morning, Dave, and welcome. |
| 0:33.5 | Good morning, Patrick. |
| 0:34.8 | Love the show, and thank you for your work. |
| 0:37.1 | Thank you. Thank you. |
| 0:40.1 | I'm in the middle of, I'll call it a slight dilemma. I'm a cradle Catholic, born and raised |
| 0:48.4 | right on the cusp of Vatican II. I was brought up receiving communion on the tongue, and for most of my adult Catholic life |
| 0:57.7 | have been receiving in the hand. |
| 1:00.6 | I just feel a, I feel more comfortable receiving on the tongue. |
| 1:07.3 | However, I go to a parish that that's just not the culture. I'm involved heavily there |
| 1:15.1 | with OCIA and as a lector, and I respect our pastor, but it's come to my attention that for some |
| 1:22.0 | health reasons, he's a little uncomfortable, as are many of the lay ministers with distributing |
| 1:30.0 | communion on the tongue so I guess you know I'm left with three options I can |
| 1:37.0 | change churches change parishes I can reverently receive in the hand or or I can, you know, receive on the tongue. |
| 1:47.3 | I feel my problem with receiving on the tongue is I don't want to make it about me. |
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