The Patrick Madrid Show: March 24, 2026 - Hour 1
The Patrick Madrid Show
Relevant Radio
4.8 • 587 Ratings
🗓️ 24 March 2026
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Patrick explores faith’s practical questions through honest listener interactions, offering ways to handle suffering and confession, even as he gently challenges assumptions about spiritual maturity and everyday life. He addresses marriage struggles, the pain of regret, and the hope found in sacramental practices, always weaving in wisdom from Catholic tradition and lived experience. Queries about family, intention in prayer, and different Catholic rites receive thoughtful, sometimes surprising responses that linger well beyond the broadcast.
- Breanna (email) - What is the proper way to offer suffering up? (00:44)
- Chris (email) – Protestants go to hell? I must have misheard or misunderstood what you said. Thank you for clarifying it. (13:29)
- Stephanie (email) - The Church keeps drilling it into my head - go to Confession, go to Confession, go to Confession. Even if I don't really have anything to confess? (18:50)
- Rosie - My husband let me know he is leaving and I am pregnant with my 4th child. He said the only way he will stay is if we use contraceptives. What can I do? (28:41)
- Dustin - You were talking about liturgical rites yesterday. How many rites are there? (39:02
- Lisa - Did you have any recommendations on Catholic homeschooling program? (43:27)
- Sylvia (email) – My husband is very verbally and physically abusive, but I stay with him because I’m Catholic. (44:52)
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | compelling insights unpredictable conversations encouragement for your day it's the patrick |
| 0:15.4 | madridrid show on relevant radio are you ready for some unpredictable conversations? |
| 0:22.1 | I sure am, so surprise me by calling 888-9149. |
| 0:27.2 | We'll get you on the air with your comment, your question. |
| 0:30.2 | 888-914-9-149. |
| 0:33.4 | As people get into an orderly queue, we will also handle our ever-expanding backlog of emails. |
| 0:42.0 | Plenty of those to get to. |
| 0:43.0 | This one is from Brianna. |
| 0:44.9 | And she says, I have a question about offering up suffering. |
| 0:47.8 | I was diagnosed with an autoimmune disease when I was a kid. |
| 0:52.0 | I've only recently started understanding suffering and the good that it possesses. |
| 0:56.5 | My question is, A, what is the proper way to offer up this suffering? |
| 1:03.7 | And I'll just answer that real quickly before I proceed with the balance of this paragraph |
| 1:08.8 | in her email. |
| 1:10.4 | There really is no proper way other |
| 1:14.6 | than you intentionally tell the Lord, Lord, I'm offering this suffering. Offer it up is the phrase |
| 1:22.2 | that we've all heard. Those of you who are cradle Catholics, you grew up being Catholic, |
| 1:25.9 | you'd probably heard your mom say |
| 1:27.6 | offered up a billion times. I certainly did, and that just means you're dealing with a disappointment, |
| 1:36.6 | a setback, an annoyance, something painful, something that you really would like to not have to |
| 1:43.9 | deal with, and you just offer it to the Lord. |
| 1:46.2 | That's really the, if you're talking about what's the proper way to do it, that's really what it's all about. |
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