The Patrick Madrid Show: September 25, 2024 - Hour 3
The Patrick Madrid Show
Relevant Radio
4.8 • 590 Ratings
🗓️ 25 September 2024
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Special guest host Fr. Matthew Spencer shares his recent dental experience and the unexpected ways pain can transform into a profound reflection on how we handle suffering in our own lives. Fr. Matthew shares insights on how distractions and focusing on good works can help us bear our personal crosses with more grace. He also explores the idea of finding God in everyday moments and the lessons that can emerge from seemingly mundane experiences. So, whether you have a fear of the dentist or you're looking for ways to alleviate life's pains, this episode offers both practical and spiritual wisdom that's sure to stay with you.
- Gary - I thought that you had to be at Mass before the offertory on Sundays to receive communion. (00:53)
- Mary - How do I respond to a protestant who says there is proof in Luke 19 that Mary had other children? (07:40)
- Email – Can non-Catholics receive absolution at confession? (13:36)
- Fr. Matthew shares his recent adventure in a dentist chair and how what happed to him relates to the wisdom of the Church (18:28)
- Stan (email) – How can I live with hope in the present moment? (27:07)
- Nancy - I remember that the readings would make us ready for communion. (30:41)
- Ann - When you are in labor, you have to think about what is ahead and not on the suffering you are going through at the moment (34:09)
- Cindy - My great-grandma was involved in magic. What can I do to remove myself and my family from that? (36:56)
- Gloria - When you have a newborn, can you miss Mass and if so how many Sundays can you miss? (42:19)
- Emma - Why can babies be baptized but an older child needs to take classes before being baptized? (45:32)
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | compelling insights unpredictable conversations |
| 0:12.1 | encouragement for your day it's the patrick madrid show on relevant radio a very warm welcome back to the patch madrid show my name is father matthew spencer |
| 0:25.7 | oblate of st joseph fellow sinner with you i'm sorry to say not a judgment on you it's a judgment on me |
| 0:34.4 | that here i am still needing god's mercy, but thankfully he's forgiving and |
| 0:39.2 | loving and calls us to conversion, doesn't he? 888-9149-9-49 is the number to call. In fact, we'll |
| 0:47.9 | go right back to the phones. Gary is calling from California. Hello, Gary. Welcome to the Patrick Madrid show. |
| 0:56.3 | Hello, Father. |
| 0:57.6 | I was just calling in response to, uh, uh, to one of the earlier callers. |
| 1:04.7 | I don't recall her name, but you had mentioned regard that she had asked regarding, |
| 1:09.2 | getting to mass and receiving communion at what's |
| 1:13.6 | specific time. I've been Catholic my whole life and my mother was as well and she always, |
| 1:22.6 | it was not only just part of how we were raised, but also has always been the consensus of anyone that I had asked previously, |
| 1:31.4 | and that is that in order to receive communion, that we should be there before the offeratory, at least on Sundays. |
| 1:41.8 | And on the weekdays, it's okay to get there a little bit, |
| 1:45.4 | not necessarily that it's okay to get there late, |
| 1:47.8 | but it's still okay to receive communion. |
| 1:54.7 | On the weekdays, if you arrive later, |
| 1:59.5 | but it was always before, it was same in line with the tradition of not having anything to eat |
| 2:05.8 | an hour before receiving communion. |
| 2:09.4 | No. |
| 2:10.1 | And I was wondering if, because you had mentioned that it's, that there's really no set time. |
| 2:19.5 | Did you, was that read reference to simply Monday through Saturday over on Sundays and holidays of occupation as well? |
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