The Patrick Madrid Show: July 14, 2026 - Hour 1
The Patrick Madrid Show
Relevant Radio
4.8 • 590 Ratings
🗓️ 14 July 2026
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Patrick addresses Catholic faith and daily life with directness, fielding questions on marital obligations, emotional complexities in marriage, and Church teachings about mutual rights; he references biblical context and listener concerns about medication and emotional well-being. He responds to inquiries about the Society of St. Pius X and the Latin Mass, distinguishing between official parishes and other chapels with practical tips, while also handling topics like Friday abstinence, predestination, suffering, and spiritual perseverance.
- Patrick responds to emails concerning marital debt as discussed on yesterday’s show
- Br. John (email) - In what ways is the SSPX's situation similar to the woman caught in adultery in the Gospel—about to be stoned by her persecutors until the Divine Judge intervenes by writing their sins in the dust, causing them to drop their stones one by one—especially regarding their refusal to fund gravely immoral acts like abortion through health insurance, an excommunicable offense only for those who know the penalty? (11:03)
- Michael (email) - How do we faithful Catholics identify these SSPX chapels and churches, so we don’t accidentally attend them? (14:54)
- Charlene (email) – You mentioned a few days ago that if you fast from meat on Fridays and you know you are attending an event & meat will be served you can fast from something else. My friend & I are visiting her sister who is in assisted living & taking her out to lunch. She wants an In & Out Burger. All 3 of us fast from meat but Friday is the only day we can take her. Is this a situation where we could fast from something else? (19:02)
- Kurt - Why has it taken so long for the SSPX to be excommunicated? (24:10)
- Stuart - The parable of the dishonest steward: How many different interpretations can be applied to this parable? (36:25)
- Tony - Why do we run into bad luck when we believe in God? Why do these things happen to us? (45:10)
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, Patrick Madrid here. Thanks for listening. Check out Charity Mobile and prayerfully consider making |
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| 0:27.6 | It's the Patrick Madrid Show on Relevant Radio. |
| 0:31.7 | Good morning. |
| 0:32.9 | A number of you have written into me over the last 24 hours or so asking further questions, |
| 0:38.5 | good questions, of course, a little pushback here, and I'll get to that as well, about the |
| 0:43.1 | question about what is known as the marital debt. And without getting into details, you married |
| 0:51.1 | people will understand what I'm talking about. That as I quoted from the |
| 0:55.4 | Bible yesterday, St. Paul talks about how you, the husband, are not the owner of your body |
| 1:02.5 | in a figure of speech or in a manner of speaking. Your wife is. And the same would be true for the |
| 1:09.3 | wife, that there is a claim that the married couple has mutually |
| 1:13.8 | on this right, this exchange of rights and the rights R-I-G-H-T-S in the marriage contract for |
| 1:25.5 | marital intimacy. And it's not a topic that comes up often, |
| 1:32.2 | but when it comes up, inevitably it seems it provokes further questions, because it is an |
| 1:38.0 | important topic for married people, no doubt. So I'm going to riff a little bit with some of |
| 1:43.3 | these emails that have come in on what I had to say yesterday. |
| 1:46.1 | If you missed what I had to say yesterday, just go back to the show page, relevantradio.com |
| 1:51.2 | slash Patrick. |
| 1:52.6 | And it's scattered more or less across the three hours of yesterday's show. |
| 1:58.0 | And if you want to go back and refresh and listen to that, but the summary is |
| 2:03.5 | that unless there is mutual agreement that one spouse cannot say to the other spouse unilaterally, |
| 2:11.4 | sorry, I don't want to do this anymore because each spouse has a legitimate claim for this good of marriage, which we call marital |
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