The Patrick Madrid Show: October 18, 2023 - Hour 1
The Patrick Madrid Show
Relevant Radio
4.8 • 590 Ratings
🗓️ 18 October 2023
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Father Spencer shares his struggles with balancing sleep in his life and shares great resources on how he has worked on this. Father takes on the question of receive the blood of Christ when going to Mass and the importance of using the proper words of the Mass,
Segment 1 (0:00)
- Father Spencer recommends a book called “Why We Sleep” by Dr. Matthew Walker. This book has helped him manage his sleep schedule better.
Segment 2 (18:30)
- Mary - When can we have the Precious Blood at Church again?
- Mary - Comment: Sleep and dreams play a central role in the Bible.
- April - If you're in a state in life when you can't take communion (I'm waiting for an annulment go through), how can you remain spiritually engaged?
Segment 3 (34:32)
- Katie - I just came from daily mass, the priest said, 'through Christ, with Christ, and in Christ.' Was that ok?
- Jeff - Follow-up to April - couldn't April receive communion if she's not having intimate relations?
- Christina - Church musician. When I am music minister, I miss parts of the mass and looking for tips on how to have a richer experience?
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | A compelling insights, unpredictable conversations, encouragement for your day. |
| 0:14.4 | It's the Patrick Madrid Show on Relevant Radio. |
| 0:20.4 | A very warm welcome to the Patrick Madrid Show. |
| 0:23.2 | It's Father Matthew Spencer sitting in for Patrick once again. |
| 0:28.3 | And I'm so glad to be with you. |
| 0:30.1 | So glad to have this opportunity to give Patrick some time to relax, to rest a little bit this week, and for all of us to, well, to appreciate |
| 0:41.9 | what God's doing in our lives and to respond in a way that's faithful and true to his will. |
| 0:48.9 | You know the number here. |
| 0:51.8 | Our toll-free line is 888-914-914949, and it's sponsored by the Catholic Order |
| 0:59.5 | of Forrester's. You can call now and join the program that way. I have been reading probably |
| 1:08.6 | it might be the most important book I've read for my health in a long time. |
| 1:16.4 | I mean, the most important book I read is the Bible, of course, each day. |
| 1:22.1 | The most important book for Christian doctrine is the catechism. |
| 1:31.3 | And there are lots of important things that we read day in and day out. But it was just a few days ago, a friend of mine recommended a book to me. |
| 1:37.3 | And I mean, it's been eye-opening and it's been like changing my mind on a whole lot of things in my life. |
| 1:48.4 | Let me step back. |
| 1:49.3 | Let me share with you some context because I didn't always have it in my mind to be a priest. |
| 1:56.6 | I didn't always have it in my plans to be a religious and to be an oblate of St. Joseph and to join you on the radio. |
| 2:04.6 | You know, when I was growing up, when I was in high school, I wanted to get into technology. |
| 2:11.3 | And that was my first kind of career and direction in life. |
| 2:15.8 | I studied computer science and this was right around the dot com boom and bust of |
| 2:22.4 | the year 2000. And I had graduated around that time and was working in this fast-paced industry that |
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