The Patrick Madrid Show: March 10, 2026 - Hour 3
The Patrick Madrid Show
Relevant Radio
4.8 • 587 Ratings
🗓️ 10 March 2026
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Patrick explores spiritual communion during crises, answers questions about confession’s role in everyday faith, and reflects on the struggles faced by parents of transgender children, weaving compassion into candid advice. He recommends practical spiritual books, explains the Socratic method for conversations, and responds to concerns about Catholic ministry eligibility. Taco Tuesday humor and thoughtful, real-life stories fill the episode with both encouragement and honest talk.
- Patrick in Denver (email) - If I’m in a state of mortal sin, can I still make an act of spiritual communion? (00:40)
- Katy (email) – Should we confess last times sins if we don’t have any new sins to confess? (03:01)
- Patrick reads and responds to an email asking about the lack of mental hospitals while homelessness and drug addiction are on the rise (08:32)
- Candance (email) – What does it mean to Surrender to Christ? (10:03)
- Email – My niece has come out as transgender. (20:01)
- Paul (email) – I was given a protestant bible. Should I return it or give it away? (24:29)
- Evan (email) – Why would we care if anyone goes to Heaven if we’re going to be happy there without them? (29:28)
- Penelope - I am a parent of a transgender kid. We parents are also grieving. (34:36)
- Joseph - My friend's wife doesn't go to Confession at all and serves as a Eucharistic minister. How can I address this? (42:10)
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Happy Taco Tuesday. |
| 0:08.8 | Compelling insights, unpredictable conversations, encouragement for your day. |
| 0:14.8 | It's the Patrick Madrid Show on Relevant Radio. |
| 0:18.4 | Taco Tuesday, Taco Tuesday. |
| 0:21.8 | That's right. Welcome back. Thanks for Tuesday. Talk a Tuesday. That's right. |
| 0:22.6 | Welcome back. |
| 0:23.7 | Thanks for listening. |
| 0:24.7 | 888-9149. |
| 0:27.1 | That's the number to call. |
| 0:28.5 | If you want to send me an email, I've got plenty of those here and look forward to reading |
| 0:33.5 | them from you as well. |
| 0:35.2 | This is one from Patrick in Denver. and he says, I have a question |
| 0:40.9 | about making a spiritual act of communion. In the future, we may experience a major war or another |
| 0:46.7 | pandemic, in which case all churches could be closed for a long time. If I'm in the state of mortal |
| 0:51.6 | sin, can I do an examination of conscience, pray the true contrition |
| 0:55.2 | of the act of contrition prayer, and then make an act of spiritual communion? |
| 0:59.2 | The answer is yes. |
| 1:01.0 | I'm seeing different things online about whether someone who's in the state of mortal sin |
| 1:04.8 | can make an active spiritual communion without making a sacramental confession. |
| 1:08.3 | Can you please clarify? |
| 1:09.3 | Yes, I can. |
| 1:10.4 | You can make an act of spiritual communion. |
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