The Patrick Madrid Show: March 09, 2026 - Hour 1
The Patrick Madrid Show
Relevant Radio
4.8 • 587 Ratings
🗓️ 9 March 2026
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
In Hour 1 of The Patrick Madrid show, Patrick discusses the following with callers: Anonymous wants to come back during Lent while living with her husband as brother and sister. Sandra asks about the stages of Purgatory and whether they can be skipped, and also whether her elderly father can receive Communion at home. Gabriel raises a concern about a bar that was once a chapel and is now storing alcohol in the tabernacle. Maria asks about baptism of desire and where to find it in the Catechism. Emails from Glen and Preston cover questions about the Second Amendment and why God allows people to be born with disabilities. Finally, Kathy asks whether Sundays during Lent count as part of Lent. Patrick also mentions the book "The Handbook of Indulgences, Norms and Grants" published by Catholic Book Publishing.
- (00:55) Email – Anonymous: I was a cradle Catholic and went to Confession after 40 years of being away from the Church. My current husband and I live together as brother and sister. How can I come home to the Church during Lent?
- (6:19) Sandra - Can you skip the stages of Purgatory? I read that there are 3 stages of purgatory.
- Break 1
- (21:42) Gabriel - What happens to deconsecrated chapels and tabernacles? We went to a bar which used to be a chapel and they stored alcohol in the tabernacle.
- (25:51) Email – Jennifer: Please continue to reiterate that kids don’t need cell phones
- Break 2
- (39:42) Email – Glen: A question about the 2nd Amendment and safeguards.
- (43:32) Kathy – Are Sundays during Lent count as part of Lent?
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Compelling insights, unpredictable conversations, |
| 0:12.6 | encouragement for your day. |
| 0:14.7 | It's the Patrick Madrid Show on relevant radio. |
| 0:19.4 | Hello and good morning, and welcome back to patrick madrid show thank you for listening |
| 0:23.4 | my number is 888 9149149 look forward to hearing from you 888 9149 we'll get some emails in the |
| 0:33.1 | meantime this one comes in from let's, does she want to be anonymous? |
| 0:39.3 | I don't think she, well, I'm going to just say her name is, let's see, I'll just say |
| 0:46.3 | anonymous because I think there's a little bit much here that is pretty specific. |
| 0:50.4 | So she says, I am slash was a cradle Catholic. I'm no longer a practicing Catholic, |
| 0:57.4 | but I'd like to be. I went to confession after 40 years of being away from the church and started |
| 1:02.1 | the process of reentering the Catholic faith. I was cleared to attend Mass and received the |
| 1:06.9 | Holy Eucharist until we discussed my present marriage. And she says in parentheses, I was previously married and have an annulment for one, |
| 1:16.2 | and one previous husband is now dead. |
| 1:20.2 | I'm married to a non-Catholic, and as far as the evidence suggests, he was not even baptized. |
| 1:25.9 | He remembers being baptized as a child, but cannot remember when or |
| 1:29.8 | where or anyone who would know if he was baptized is now long dead. I wrote the church where they |
| 1:35.6 | attended two times and never received an answer. On top of this, my husband has been married twice |
| 1:42.6 | before me, and obviously there are no annulments for those marriages. |
| 1:47.3 | We tried through our local diocese to get these marriages annulled without any success. |
| 1:52.2 | I had a priest tell me that I could attend Mass, but I could not receive the Holy Eucharist. |
| 1:56.5 | And he also said that I was not able to go to, pardon me, got a little hiccup there. I was not, |
| 2:02.8 | I'm also, he says, not able to receive the sacrament of confession. My husband and I are older. |
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