The Patrick Madrid Show: November 01, 2024 - Hour 2
The Patrick Madrid Show
Relevant Radio
4.8 • 590 Ratings
🗓️ 1 November 2024
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Great Stories About Great Saints: Saints Perpetua and Felicity and St. Athanasius
- Saints Perpetua and Felicity are known for their martyrdom in the early Christian Church, providing one of the most detailed accounts of early Christian martyrdom through Perpetua's own writings. (04:30)
- Michelle - Why do some saints have incorruptible bodies? (27:44)
- Charlotte - My son works with someone who says he is Catholic but votes very liberal. How can he talk with this liberal Catholic about this? (32:16)
- St. Athanasius, often referred to as "Athanasius Contra Mundum" (Athanasius against the world), is particularly known for his defense of the doctrine of the Trinity at the Council of Nicaea and his resistance against Arianism. (37:41)
- Frances - How do I respond to my adult kid who got a vasectomy? (50:29)
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Their courage will astound you. Their stories will move you. Their faith will inspire you. |
| 0:05.7 | Welcome to great stories about great saints on Relevant Radio and the Relevant Radio app. |
| 0:12.0 | Okay, welcome back. This is Patrick Madrid. This is the Patrick Madrid show, and I will be taking your phone calls in and around my sharing with you some of the great saints today the feast |
| 0:22.2 | of all saints day and by the way remember that today's a holy day of obligation so you need to go |
| 0:28.3 | to mass now if you're sick that's different if you are you know broke and you don't have a car |
| 0:35.5 | and the nearest church is 30 miles away and you can't get there, |
| 0:39.4 | that's different. If you can't get to Mass, God understands. But it is a holy day of obligation, |
| 0:45.2 | so don't blow it off and don't say, yeah, well, I'm tired or yeah, I had a long day at work. |
| 0:50.8 | Do what you need to do and get to Mass. Thankfully, most parishes and most dioceses will have an evening mass. |
| 0:57.4 | So when you get off work, you can go to that mass, or you can go to mass at noon. |
| 1:01.6 | If you have a lunch break and there's a Catholic church nearby, that's not uncommon at all. |
| 1:06.4 | But I just want to be like the town watchmen, the town watchman ringing the bell and saying, |
| 1:10.9 | don't forget, today is a holy day of obligation. |
| 1:13.1 | Why? |
| 1:13.5 | Because this is a major deal. |
| 1:16.3 | Today, we commemorate and we venerate and honor the great saints of the last 2,000 years. |
| 1:23.6 | Yeah, the Old Testament saints, they're saints too. |
| 1:26.1 | We don't canonize them, but they're saints |
| 1:27.9 | too. We honor them as well. They're part of the body of Christ. But we in a particular way honor |
| 1:33.8 | those men and women, boys and girls who lived heroic lives of virtue. Some of them died as martyrs. |
| 1:39.3 | But they're all examples to you and to me for how we should live, or as the Holy Bible says in Hebrews |
| 1:45.7 | chapter 12, that we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses. That word witness from the |
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