The Patrick Madrid Show: January 28, 2026 - Hour 2
The Patrick Madrid Show
Relevant Radio
4.8 • 587 Ratings
🗓️ 28 January 2026
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Patrick examines everything from Jim Brewer’s raw reflections on caring for aging parents to practical Catholic questions that listeners bring, like how salvation works for those who never encounter the faith, the nuances of receiving Communion, and issues around marriages outside the Church. Candid advice flows through each response, especially as Patrick speaks with Elisa about her marriage’s validity, guiding her toward steps that bring peace and clarity. The episode pulses with honest conversation, sudden turns, and moments where faith and life meet in the unexpected.
- Audio - Jim Breuer “The real test of life is how you care for the ones who once carried you” - https://x.com/jimbreuer/status/2012632515568160996?s=46&t=m_l2itwnFvka2DG8_72nHQ (00:19)
- Santino – What would happen to your soul if you died in a place that did not know about the Catholic faith? (01:49)
- Tom - Is there a canon law that governs giving out the Precious Blood? (06:50)
- Dennis - My question is that I am a lawyer with a lot of judge friends who are Catholic. They perform a lot of civil ceremonies. The scandal of attending a civil wedding seems antiquated and how can Catholic judges do these ceremonies? (13:37)
- Elisa - Regarding marriage, I was married in 1980 and I was married in a Catholic Church at Mass. My husband was not baptized. The parish priest locked the Church to prevent wedding from happening. We broke in and held the mass anyway. Was this correct? An associate pastor married us. (29:37)
- Rusty - How is it that God knows the choices we will make if we have free will? (40:11)
- Nicholas - The Institution of The Eucharist. What is Jesus referring to when he mentions 'The Fruit of The Vine'? (48:57)
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Compelling insights, unpredictable conversations, |
| 0:12.8 | encouragement for your day. |
| 0:14.8 | It's the Patrick Madrid Show on Relevant Radio. |
| 0:18.8 | If you grew up in a household where your mother took care of you, where your father took care of you, or your grandparents, there is a time where they're not invincible anymore, and now it's time for you to take care of them. |
| 0:31.2 | And that's the natural order of life. |
| 0:33.7 | And we're stuck in a system where we think we're important, we think we're better than all. We've lost our spirituality. We lost our existence. And we just put him in a home because it's convenient. We put them in because we can't do it. And listen, a lot of you can't do it. And a lot of people are not made to do it. But if you are doing it, no, if you sacrifice to do it, you're doing the right thing, |
| 0:54.9 | because I can guarantee you this, you're going to sleep great at night because you have closure |
| 0:58.7 | and you know you did the best you can. And when things are over, I will tell you this. It's not |
| 1:03.4 | easy when they're over. It's not easy. It takes time to get over that pain and healing. However, |
| 1:08.3 | you will feel guilty. I could have done more. I felt that way. I was |
| 1:11.5 | like, I could have done more. And my friends were like, Brewer, you took your dad on tour. You were there for him. You showered him. I said, yeah, I could have done more. I could have done more. You always feel you could do more. It's natural to go through all this. That's Jim Brewer. He's cool. late of Saturday Night Live, stand-up comics, been around forever, but I really like that. |
| 1:32.4 | Sorry, where can people listen to that again or see it? |
| 1:35.2 | I'm about to post it to our show page, so go to relevant radio.com slash Patrick. |
| 1:41.1 | Far out, man. |
| 1:43.3 | Far out. Let's go to Santino in Woodbury Heights, New Jersey. |
| 1:46.2 | Hi, Santino. |
| 1:48.5 | Hi, Mr. Madrid. |
| 1:49.6 | Thank you for taking my call. |
| 1:51.2 | You're welcome. |
| 1:51.8 | Do they call you Santi? |
| 1:54.8 | No. |
| 1:55.6 | They call me Sunny. |
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