The Patrick Madrid Show: July 14, 2023 - Hour 3
The Patrick Madrid Show
Relevant Radio
4.8 • 591 Ratings
🗓️ 14 July 2023
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Patrick answers listener questions about the Trinity, speaking in tongues, Catholic funeral masses, what is the protocol for receiving communion for the homebound, and why did Judas need to point out who Jesus was if everyone knew who he was?
- Pam (email) – Is it okay to use analogies to explain the Trinity?
- Matt – My Protestant friend 'prayed over me' and was speaking in tongues. Was this okay?
- Christopher - Are Catholics required to have a funeral mass when they pass?
- Marilyn - My daughter is married outside the church? Will she ever be able to receive communion?
- Virginia - Women came up and asked for six hosts at communion for her pix for her homebound husband. What is the protocol?
- Sue - Can you clarify why God wouldn't hear your prayers if you are in mortal sin?
- Mike - Why was Judas needed to point Jesus out? Didn't everyone already know what he looked like?
- Zachary – What is the difference between Novice Ordo and Latin Mass? Why does the priest face a different direction?
- Mary - Why are priests not allowed to get married?
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Compelling insights, unpredictable conversations, |
| 0:12.6 | encouragement for your day. |
| 0:14.6 | It's the Patrick Madrid show on Relevant Radio. |
| 0:18.9 | And away we go. |
| 0:20.7 | Here's our three. |
| 0:21.6 | Hey, I have an email that came in from Pam. |
| 0:25.3 | Hello, Pam. |
| 0:26.3 | She's listening on the Relevant Radio app. |
| 0:28.2 | It's about the Trinity. |
| 0:29.1 | She says, I once had a pastor tell me that Amon Sr. told him to explain a visual about the Trinity, and that is take three matches, strike them |
| 0:42.4 | together, and the three matches become one. Well, I think Pam's asking what I think about that. |
| 0:49.5 | Well, I mean, analogies are helpful. Yeah, Patrick, tell us. |
| 0:55.3 | Okay. |
| 0:56.8 | Like I'm thinking about St. Patrick of Ireland. |
| 1:00.6 | And the tradition is that he used the shamrock as an analogy to explain the Trinity. |
| 1:07.1 | So one shamrock with three leaves, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. |
| 1:11.4 | And up to a point that works, but it begins to break down for this reason, that, yes, it is one shamrock, but each of the leaves is a part of the shamrock. |
| 1:22.6 | And in the Trinity, in God, there are no parts. |
| 1:26.7 | So the persons of the Trinity are distinct, but they don't share a part |
| 1:31.1 | of the divine nature. Each of the persons of the Trinity, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, |
| 1:36.5 | they share jointly the entirety of the divine nature. It's not like the father has 33.333333%, |
| 1:48.0 | and the son has 33.3, et cetera, percent, |
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