what we call a cold open using radio lingo here there normally should be a song playing the

patrick madrid themes theme show song easy for me to say it's pure chicanery what can i say

that's cyrus the man behind the curtain he makes makes everything work. Welcome to the Patrick Madrid Show.

We're here yet again, and we will be through Sunday here at the National Eucharistic Congress in Indianapolis with 55,000 people.

They're not all here in the booth with us right now, but it's great to have all of you here.

Thank you.

We're going to be doing live questions today, and as you heard earlier, it'll be a special abbreviated edition because the schedule being what it is. We don't have the full three hours, but we'll do the best we can and get through as many questions as we can in those three hours. So we have a lady all queued up and ready to go. Does she have the mic? There we go. Okay, so it'll be our first

questioner. We'll see how many we can get to. Cyrus's mic today. Thank you. Thank you for

taking my question, Patrick. You and I are almost exactly the same age. Kind of glean that from

the years listening to you from.

How does it feel to be 30 years old, man?

Feels good, doesn't it?

Oh, there's a problem.

I'm married for 44, so.

Here's my question.

The Pope has graciously offered plenary indulgences, and I understand what those are. I'm just questioning who we can use them on.

Are they just for ourselves, or can you use a plenary indulgence for someone who's already passed,

for someone who's dying at this very second, for someone who's alive on Earth right now,

or for someone who's not even

conceived yet because God is all outside of time. Right. He certainly is outside of time. That's a

very astute question. So you can gain a plenary indulgence or any partial indulgence for

yourself or for souls in purgatory. And you can apply the indulgence to a

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