The Patrick Madrid Show: October 17, 2023 - Hour 2
The Patrick Madrid Show
Relevant Radio
4.8 • 590 Ratings
🗓️ 17 October 2023
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Special Guest Host Fr. Matthew Spencer -
- Comments on the biography on Elon Musk
- Monica - What is the proper way to fast for today?
- James (14:20) - If I skip lunch, is that considered a fast for today? I had breakfast already.
- Christie - Why do we say the Nicaean Creed for the Mass and the Apostles Creed for the Rosary?
- Richard - My sister who is liberal and is not practicing her faith. She says that she loves Pope Francis because she thinks he is changing the teaching on homosexuality. How can I explain that he is not doing this?
- Mary (29:40) - If you make a personal vow to God, will I need to go to the priest to be released from the vow?
- Jim - Do we have any obligation as Catholics to help God's “will be done on Earth as it is in Heaven” as it says in the Our Father Prayer?
- Joseph - I now understand why Jesus came into the world after your talk about Confession just now. That is what the Sacraments are all about.
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. |
| 0:20.5 | Welcome back to the Patrick Madrid Show. |
| 0:23.4 | I'm Father Matthew Spencer. |
| 0:25.1 | I'm the Provincial of the Oblates of St. Joseph, which sounds very grand, doesn't it? |
| 0:29.8 | It sounds very highfalutin. |
| 0:32.0 | I'm a simple servant of the Lord trying to help my brothers. |
| 0:36.1 | Provincial is a funny word. It means I'm I'm the |
| 0:39.2 | superior of the group of priests in this particular region. So I'm in charge of about 25 men in the |
| 0:47.1 | United States. And when I say in charge, I mean that very, very loosely. Because I try to support them, help them. But boy, do I have a bunch of |
| 0:59.1 | good men that I get to share my life with, the obloids of St. Joseph. We're a religious community, |
| 1:04.5 | and we try to pattern our lives after St. Joseph. So anyway, I'm just buddies with Patrick and |
| 1:09.3 | glad to be with you. Patrick's away for |
| 1:12.3 | this hour, this day, and for a few days to come yet, just taking a little R&R. So glad to be with you |
| 1:18.7 | today. 888-914-9149 is the number if you want to join the conversation. I was telling Cyrus earlier today that I've |
| 1:32.1 | been reading this book. Actually, I finished this book on Elon Musk. You probably saw the, |
| 1:38.3 | I think got a lot of publicity, Walter Isaacson, who is a really famous biographer. He's spent the last few years |
| 1:47.6 | kind of shadowing Elon Musk in his business ventures, in his personal life even. He's traveled with him |
| 1:56.2 | and, you know, just had access to him. Walter Isaac, actually, I've read a few of his books now. |
| 2:03.1 | He has a pretty interesting book on Steve Jobs in the life of Steve Jobs. |
| 2:08.8 | Benjamin Franklin, also his book is really, really good. |
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