The Patrick Madrid Show: October 20, 2023 - Hour 3
The Patrick Madrid Show
Relevant Radio
4.8 • 590 Ratings
🗓️ 20 October 2023
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Special Guest Host Fr. Matthew Spencer takes questions about confession ranging from should you confess to a priest who, is a friend, to what to do if you can't remember your sins in the confessional. Check out this great hour!
- Al - I can't go to confession to my local priest because I know him to well and don't want him to think bad of me. What do you think of this?
- Margaret - I used to belong to a liberal Church that would encourage people to bake bread and take it to the priest to be consecrated. Was that valid?
- Denise - How can you do penance for sins done many years ago?
- Rafael - When a priest knows you well, I think the priest can give you good advice. The only caveat might be if you confess something illegal.
- Alonso - How can I help someone who is afraid to go to confession because of all the things they have to list?
- Joe - I went to confession last week and the priest did something different: He gave me absolution then he talked about my sin. Was that correct?
- Jennifer - Is smoking a sin?
- Mariana - The priest cut me off before I finished confessing. What should have I done? Was I absolved?
- Debbie - If you haven’t been to confession for a while and don't remember the number of times you missed a sin, can you make an educated guess?
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. |
| 0:21.3 | Welcome to the Patrick Madrid Show. |
| 0:24.0 | My name is Father Matthew Spencer. |
| 0:25.8 | I am the provincial of the obliates of St. Joseph, the director of the shrine of St. Joseph |
| 0:31.0 | in Santa Cruz, California. |
| 0:33.6 | And I'm a friend of Patrick's and really happy to just sit in for him and hang out with you this week. |
| 0:39.1 | It's all flown by really fast. |
| 0:42.2 | I mean, these five days I've been blessed to be with you. |
| 0:45.5 | What a joy it's been. |
| 0:46.3 | And now we come into our final hour. |
| 0:49.8 | So if you want to try and fit your question or your inquiry in, give me a call 888-914-9149-9-49. That is 888-914-914-9-149-4-9-4-9-4-9-4-9-4-9-9-4-9-9-4-9 is our toll-free line sponsored by the Catholic Order of Foresters. We do have a number of folks waiting who have been waiting |
| 1:12.3 | very patiently. Let's go to Al, who's calling from Johnston, Rhode Island. Hello, Al. Welcome to |
| 1:19.5 | the Patrick Madrid Show. Hi, Father. Thanks for taking my call. And I'm glad you're on today, |
| 1:26.4 | so I know you can shed some late and help me. |
| 1:29.8 | My local priest, I'm very friendly with him. We go out for dinner at times. He comes over my house |
| 1:36.8 | and has dinner with me and my family. But, Father, I cannot go to him for confession. I will |
| 1:42.8 | purposely once a month travel to another city of town here in Rhode Island |
| 1:47.1 | and go to another church and do my confession. |
| 1:50.2 | I just feel that if he'll know it's me by my voice when I'm in the confessional |
| 1:55.6 | or if I'm waiting to go and say he, you know, is walking in the confessional. |
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