The Patrick Madrid Show: July 27, 2023 - Hour 3
The Patrick Madrid Show
Relevant Radio
4.8 • 591 Ratings
🗓️ 27 July 2023
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Patrick answers listener questions about receiving communion from a lay person, why is the Sabbath day on a Sunday, why do we need to go to confession, and what’s the moral difference between contraception and Natural Family Planning?
- How do you know if you’re in a state of grace?
- Andrea - What books in the bible should I recommend for a friend to believe in God? Patrick recommends “A Handbook of Catholic Apologetics”
- Jay - Is it okay to receive communion from a lay person?
- Natalie - Mortal sin and full knowledge: A family member just got married and trying to live a catholic life but they use birth control, what should I do?
- Tom - Our experience of time is the result of the Mass of the earth and its bending of energy. We know time is not fixed. The further away from the center of the earth the less time affects you.
- Sandra - Why is the Sabbath day on a Sunday?
- Sarah – Why do we need to go to Confession?
- Andres - I have trouble walking so I can't go to Mass as much. Is it okay for me to watch Mass on TV instead?
- Joel - Can you explain the moral difference between contraception and NFP?
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Compelling insights, unpredictable conversations, |
| 0:11.9 | encouragement for your day. |
| 0:14.6 | It's the Patrick Madrid show on relevant radio okay okay welcome back to the patrick madrid show that number again 888 |
| 0:33.7 | nine one four nine one four nine um stand in philadelphia says i 888 914-9149. |
| 0:41.0 | Stan in Philadelphia says, |
| 0:43.1 | I try to make a good confession. |
| 0:44.9 | How do you know when you're in the state of grace? |
| 0:47.9 | How are you assured to go to purgatory at your particular judgment? |
| 0:50.9 | Looking back at my life, I could have done better, |
| 0:52.6 | but I always tried to keep the faith. |
| 0:55.4 | He says, thanks for your show. |
| 0:57.9 | Thank you. |
| 0:59.4 | So I appreciate your email. |
| 1:01.9 | Well, here's how you know. |
| 1:03.1 | I'll put it this way. You have an awareness that you have not committed a serious sin that is not infallible. |
| 1:14.9 | In other words, your awareness of being in the state of grace |
| 1:17.4 | or your belief that you're in the state of the grace, it's not infallible. |
| 1:21.7 | And it could be that, objectively speaking, either you forgot something, that happens. |
| 1:28.0 | But you can say, if you can honestly say, I am not aware of being in serious sin, |
| 1:38.1 | because since my last confession, I am not aware of having committed a serious sin, |
| 1:45.5 | therefore I can be assured that I'm in the state of grace. |
| 1:48.8 | That is sufficient for you and for me, for anybody, to be able to go forward to receive |
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