The Patrick Madrid Show: October 22, 2024 - Hour 2
The Patrick Madrid Show
Relevant Radio
4.8 • 590 Ratings
🗓️ 22 October 2024
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Patrick explores the poignant journey of becoming caregivers for our aging parents, beautifully framed by an emotional meditation and touching story that he shares. It’s a powerful reminder to cherish our parents and be there for them as they are for us. This heartfelt conversation is a must-listen for anyone navigating this challenging phase of life.
- Fr. Jeff (email) – A family member having Alzheimer’s taught me some valuable lessons (00:42)
- Kathleen - My mom lives in a retirement home and hears knocking at the door but no one is ever there. She keeps a pyx on her mantel with the Eucharist in it. She said the priest said she could have it in there. What should I do? (06:08)
- Steve - Halloween: Do you think that the Church's technique to retain what is good and discard what is bad has been used too much in the Church? (21:58)
- Michael - Is it possible that the natural evil that came before the fall happened because of the fall of angels? (30:04)
- Patrick shares “Fear of Your Parents’ Old Age”, a beautiful reflection on an adult child taking care of their elderly parent (39:00)
- Christina - They told us to bring pictures of our dead loved ones at my son's school. We put food and drink in front of the photos. Is that okay? (44:16)
- Tracey - Last week I asked you a question about my younger brother who is having relations with a girl. I wanted to follow up with you about this and ask another question about the situation.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Compelling insights, unpredictable conversations, |
| 0:12.0 | encouragement for your day. |
| 0:14.2 | It's the Patrick Madrid show on Relevant Radio. |
| 0:17.6 | This is the main event. |
| 0:20.8 | 8, 8, 8, 9, 1, you believe it. |
| 0:26.7 | 8-8-9-1-4-9-1-4-9. |
| 0:28.5 | Come on a state of a flight. |
| 0:30.8 | That's right. |
| 0:32.9 | I was just waiting for more. |
| 0:33.9 | There is no more. |
| 0:36.3 | 888-914-9-49. |
| 0:40.2 | Hello, my name is Patrick Madrid. Nice to meet you. meet you love to talk to you i have a note here from uh father jeff and uh for his privacy i won't say where he's writing from |
| 0:48.4 | but hey father jeff thank you for taking a minute to write to me and it's regarding a call i took |
| 0:53.3 | yesterday he says i heard heard Bernadette's call |
| 0:56.0 | in the last hour of your show the other day. She had expressed that she was dealing with a brother |
| 1:01.4 | with Alzheimer's and many of her family members had suffered this. She said she was hitting herself |
| 1:06.7 | out of frustration with the disease. My heart, Father Jeff says, goes out to her having many family |
| 1:13.0 | members who also suffered from Alzheimer's. I felt frustrated when a family member displayed the |
| 1:18.9 | symptoms. First of all, I would encourage Bernadette to discover the reasons behind her frustrations. |
| 1:25.4 | I realized in my own experience that, first of all, it was sad to |
| 1:30.3 | see a family member whom I loved, who I knew in their vibrant years not to be able to remember |
| 1:36.3 | something as simple as what they had to eat earlier that day, or to remember my name. I realized I needed |
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