The Patrick Madrid Show: January 23, 2026 - Hour 1
The Patrick Madrid Show
Relevant Radio
4.8 • 587 Ratings
🗓️ 23 January 2026
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Patrick opens the show by unpacking questions about corporal mortification, guilt, and penance, offering clear spiritual direction grounded in Scripture and tradition. He fields calls that spiral into questions of existence, the nature of life as a gift, scandal in the Church, the reality of temptation, and the anxious math of salvation, always returning to the mercy and providence of God. Honest, layered exchanges ripple through every segment as Patrick tackles faith’s thorniest dilemmas with warmth, candor, and sharp theological insight.
- Ryan (email) - Is physical self-chastisement (corporal mortification) as a form of penance still acceptable if kept private and moderate? (01:39)
- Sandra - God gives us life but knows if we will choose him or not. Why would he allow us to be born if we choose damnation? Is it a gift to be born? (12:50)
- Justin – Trump is too aggressive with ICE and immigration. Also, why would God lead us into temptation? (20:42)
- Marco - Do laicized priests have a path to reconciliation so that they can become priests again? (28:39)
- Todd - I think this gentleman doesn’t know if the priest has repented of his sins or not. How can we know? We all sin. I think we shouldn’t say we feel scandalized. (38:58)
- Mark - When we look at sports, the winner is the one that scores the most points. It seems more people will be in Hell than Heaven. This is problematic for me. Can you help me? (41:54)
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This presentation has been previously broadcast. |
| 0:03.1 | Crystal clear coverage of the Patrick Madrid Show made possible in part by Charity Mobile. |
| 0:16.9 | Compelling insights, unpredictable conversations, encouragement for your day. |
| 0:22.9 | It's the Patrick Madrid Show on Relevant Radio. |
| 0:27.8 | Hello and good morning and welcome back to the Patrick Madrid Show. |
| 0:31.6 | Here's my number. |
| 0:32.5 | If you'd like to be on the air, call me please. |
| 0:34.5 | 888-9149-1949, 888-9149 888 9149 9149 and if you'd like to send me an email my |
| 0:43.4 | address is patrick at relevant radio.com first thing I just I just want to acknowledge |
| 0:49.9 | all of you the many of you who wanted to weigh in on the conversation that we had yesterday. |
| 0:55.8 | It was just a little throwaway item, not anything of significance, but I was talking with a native |
| 1:02.8 | Spanish speaker. Spanish is my second language. And it's about a little phrase in Spanish, |
| 1:09.2 | Buena Nueva or Las Buenos Nuevas as the good news. |
| 1:14.6 | And I explained how that always seems a bit odd to me, and I explained why. |
| 1:19.1 | Amazingly, so many of you, you wanted in on that action. |
| 1:23.2 | So thank you, each and every one of you who took time out of your busy days to write to me |
| 1:28.2 | to talk about that. You never know what's going to touch a nerve in a good way on this program. |
| 1:34.7 | Here is an email that comes in from Ryan, and he's writing from, where is Ryan? He's in Michigan. |
| 1:43.3 | And he says, is physical self-chastisement or corporal |
| 1:47.1 | mortification as a form of penance still acceptable if kept private and moderate? I have the urge |
| 1:53.8 | to do this, but perhaps it's because I have an unhealthy amount of guilt for living such a sinful |
| 1:58.8 | life before finding Christ. He says, I'm in |
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