The Patrick Madrid Show: March 11, 2026 - Hour 3
The Patrick Madrid Show
Relevant Radio
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🗓️ 11 March 2026
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Patrick takes listeners through questions of tradition and scriptural authority, responding directly to callers wrestling with Calvinist perspectives, confession in Orthodox churches, and the moral limits of self-sacrifice and war. He pulls in personal stories, sharp debate memories, and practical advice about the Eucharist and confession, threading clarity through every response.
- Patrick continues his conversation with Granger, from the end of the last hour, talking about where tradition gets its authority (00:21)
- John - Can my Catholic son go to an Orthodox Church for a Confession? (16:11)
- Anne - I wondered where I could look in the Catechism or somewhere else about ending my life by donating vital organs? (21:46)
- Sandra - A consecrated host fell on the floor. The communicant picked it up, but the spot on the floor was not covered. (34:52)
- Steven - Can you compare Matthew 5:28 and supporting a war that is unjust as defined by the Catholic Church? For example, is it a sin to support a war in my thoughts? (38:00)
- Reuben - I love Relevant Radio and I listen every day! (47:04)
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | compelling insights unpredictable conversations encouragement for your day it's the patrick |
| 0:15.5 | madrid show on relevant radio welcome back so we're going back to, Granger, and Lincoln, Nebraska, and you were telling me that |
| 0:23.6 | you've got an impending conversation, maybe confrontation, perhaps, with your Calvinist |
| 0:31.1 | uncle. |
| 0:31.8 | Is he your uncle? |
| 0:33.6 | Yeah, so it's my uncle, and real strong, yeah, Presbyterian Calvinist. |
| 0:39.9 | And I'm a convert, and so he's my godfather, so he thinks it's kind of his duty to revert me back to Protestant. |
| 0:49.4 | Yeah. |
| 0:51.7 | So, yeah, essentially the question is, where does tradition get its authority from |
| 0:57.3 | and can it just be uh like is at the the end is that because we say well the bible doesn't |
| 1:07.2 | itself give itself authority you know and so I was thinking about that. And I didn't have an |
| 1:15.7 | answer if that was the rebuttal. There's a lot here. So it's not reducible, first of all, to a quote, |
| 1:24.3 | you know, a Bible verse or two. We have to look at the totality of what we see in |
| 1:29.6 | scripture as well as apostolic authority. But I think the first step would be to establish |
| 1:36.1 | the biblical truth that divine revelation comes to us in two modes. One is through the oral preaching and teaching. The other |
| 1:47.9 | is through the written word. And one example, we can at least begin to demonstrate this, |
| 1:53.3 | would be in Luke's gospel chapter one beginning for the first four verses of Luke, in which St. Luke, |
| 1:59.9 | he appeals to, well, here's what he says. So this is |
| 2:02.8 | verse one, in as much as many have undertaken to compile a narrative of the things which have |
| 2:07.0 | been accomplished among us, just as they were delivered to us. And by the way, that word delivered, |
| 2:12.7 | that phrase delivered to us is really important because that's the word that we translate in English as |
| 2:19.5 | delivered is the Greek word tradition. Paradigidemi. So even the word tradition appears in that very |
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