The Patrick Madrid Show: October 03, 2024 - Hour 1
The Patrick Madrid Show
Relevant Radio
4.8 • 590 Ratings
🗓️ 3 October 2024
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Special Guest Host Fr. Matthew Spencer talked about how death, transformed by Jesus, is actually a gateway to eternal life. He reflected on how writing your own obituary can be a valuable exercise in evaluating how Jesus will see the life you've lived. Remember, if we live according to God's will, death becomes a blessing, not just for us, but for those we leave behind. (02:23)
- Art - My dad died two years ago. I heard of an encyclical from the Archdiocese about those who die in the month of November will get a special indulgence. (21:59)
- Don - What do you do if you wake up early in the morning and are scared you will die alone? (27:26)
- Lucy - I caught my son cheating on a quiz this morning. (32:32)
- Fr. Matthew and Cyrus tell their stories of being caught stealing when they were kids and the lasting impact their punishment had on them (41:06)
- Regina - Why do we pray for the dead if their fate of going to heaven or hell is already decided? (45:57)
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Compelling insights, unpredictable conversations, |
| 0:12.7 | encouragement for your day. |
| 0:14.8 | It's the Patrick Madrid Show on Relevant Radio. |
| 0:20.1 | Welcome to the Patrick Madrid Show. My name's Father Matthew Spencer. I'm glad to be sitting in again |
| 0:28.1 | and to join you for the day today. I'm the provincial superior of the obloates of St. Joseph, a little small religious community. We try to live |
| 0:40.0 | our lives in imitation of St. Joseph serving the church. Well, we try to be humble and try to do it in |
| 0:47.8 | hidden ways. Here I am, talking to millions of listeners on relevant radio, but just like St. Joseph trying to lead us to his |
| 0:57.1 | earthly son here, Jesus. I live in Santa Cruz, and the weather's real nice here today, Cyrus. |
| 1:04.5 | I mean, it's a beautiful day. Big surprise, fogger. Big surprise. It's like the same all the time, you know. |
| 1:12.0 | Sometimes it's foggy and I'm like raising my fist at the sky. |
| 1:15.6 | Like, how dare you ruin my sunny day? |
| 1:19.4 | I know. |
| 1:20.7 | It's not like I'm trying to rub that in people's faces or anything. |
| 1:24.8 | It's just life, you know, it's how it is here. |
| 1:26.9 | I think that's kind of why |
| 1:28.5 | surfers just kind of get so relaxed and chill is when you have days that are just so beautiful |
| 1:34.8 | all the time, you can relax a little bit more. But we're not talking about surfing and we're not |
| 1:41.1 | talking about the weather today on the program, at least not at this |
| 1:45.5 | moment. We're going to start by topic talking about a very cheery subject that we all want to |
| 1:53.5 | talk about, death, death today. By the way, I should throw out the number for the show here 888 9149149 that was a great segue by the way |
| 2:06.9 | you're gonna die give me a call uh yeah sorry uh hey i want to talk about death but if you want to talk about something else, then give me a call. |
| 2:21.8 | Actually, it's not what you think, really. We're not talking about death from a macabre morbid standpoint. |
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