The Patrick Madrid Show: March 13, 2026 - Hour 2
The Patrick Madrid Show
Relevant Radio
4.8 • 587 Ratings
🗓️ 13 March 2026
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Patrick explores faith questions, responding to listeners with Scripture, tradition, and personal reflections. He tackles topics like Jesus’ suffering, the Catholic view of salvation, practical fasting advice, and recommends books for deeper understanding. Conversations range from probing theological mysteries to the everyday challenges faced by believers.
- Email – Why would Jesus have to suffer? (00:53)
- Lisa – Couldn’t Jesus have done it a different way? (13:23)
- Patrick recommends and shares some passages from “The Incarnate Lord: A Thomistic Study in Christology” by Thomas Joseph White OP (18:48)
- Penny - I am reading Frank Sheed's “Theology For Beginners”. How do I read multiple books at one time? (25:45)
- Rick - Jesus says, “Today you will be with me in paradise” and he also rose in three days. Can you explain how those statements are consistent with what we belief? (29:54)
- Felix - Do Protestants make it to heaven? (33:42)
- Richard - If Jesus wasn't crucified, what would have happened? What if God knew that Jesus would have been accepted by everyone? (42:55)
- David - My family is stressed out due to job changes. It's hard for me to focus on my Lenten fast. What can I do? (45:47)
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. |
| 0:17.6 | Give me some coffee. Black. |
| 0:20.3 | All right, you got it. 88-9 9149149. Feel free to call that number. |
| 0:27.3 | We'll get you on the air. And this actually ties in with a note from Adam. Adam's listening in Michigan. |
| 0:32.8 | He says, yesterday, a caller by the name of Lisa asked why did Jesus have to suffer and the hour was |
| 0:43.4 | wrapping up you started to answer and you asked Lisa to hold on so you would |
| 0:46.9 | continue your answer in the next hour and after coming back you took a different |
| 0:49.8 | call any chance someone can reply well yes thank you for that and here's what happened i don't know if |
| 0:55.3 | you're listening right now lisa but here's what happened so we came back from the break i mistakenly went |
| 1:00.9 | to another caller but you were right there and unfortunately this is my fault not your fault but you |
| 1:08.0 | hung up and then i was about to go right back to you. I was about |
| 1:11.1 | to correct my mistake and say, oh, and then you were gone. So that's why I couldn't come back to you, and that's why I didn't continue with that call, because the people who had been tuning in at that point would not have heard your call in the first place. So that's what happened, Adam. That's what happened, Lisa. So again, |
| 1:28.8 | feel free to call in if you'd like to. So Lisa asked, why would Jesus have to suffer? And I was |
| 1:34.6 | talking before the break, and what I would have expanded on a little bit more, is that, first of all, |
| 1:41.1 | this was not the only way that this could have been accomplished. |
| 1:45.5 | And St. Thomas Aquinas actually discusses this. |
| 1:48.0 | In particular, he takes up the question in the suma, |
| 1:52.2 | was it absolutely necessary that Jesus suffer and die on the cross |
| 1:57.5 | to accomplish our redemption and salvation? |
| 2:00.8 | And his answer is no. He puts it this way. He says... die on the cross to accomplish our redemption and salvation. |
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