The Patrick Madrid Show: September 30, 2024 - Hour 2
The Patrick Madrid Show
Relevant Radio
4.8 • 590 Ratings
🗓️ 30 September 2024
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Special Guest Host Fr. Matthew Spencer delves into the importance of marriage validity, the process of seeking an annulment in the Catholic Church, and discerning one's vocation.
- Joanna - My ex-husband was not Catholic. My dad paid the priest a bribe to marry us. Was it a valid marriage? (00:56)
- Elizabeth - Is seminary only for the priesthood or can young men use it to discern their vocation? (05:33)
- Angelica - My husband and I were not married in the Church. Would having the sacraments magically help our troubled marriage? (14:35)
- Jared – I’ve been praying the “Surrender Novena”: What does it look like to surrender your life to God? (22:22)
- Nancy – What is “energy psychology”? (31:30)
- Nicole - My husband and I don't drink out of the chalice because we know we have an STD. Is that okay? (38:10)
- Mary Beth - I confessed the sin of scrolling on social media. Father told me to watch a movie which really disturbed me. I don't know if he told me it as penance or just a suggestion. What do you think? (43:57)
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. |
| 0:23.4 | Welcome back to the Patrick Madrid Show. |
| 0:26.4 | My name is Father Matthew Spencer. |
| 0:28.1 | So happy to be sitting in for Patrick. |
| 0:32.2 | Today, maybe another day this week, just as Patrick gets a little R&R, and he deserves it. |
| 0:40.2 | You know, that man works very, very hard. |
| 0:43.5 | 888-9149149 is a number to call. |
| 0:48.4 | We're going to go right back to the phones. |
| 0:51.3 | Joanna's calling from West Covina, California. Hello, Joanna. Welcome to the Patrick |
| 0:56.4 | Madrid Show. Thank you, Father Spencer. I have a question. So I was married with a non-religious |
| 1:04.8 | man. Turns out later on, I found that he was atheist. And when we got married, the father, we married in a Catholic church and the father |
| 1:14.8 | did not want to marry us. |
| 1:15.9 | This was way back in 1982. |
| 1:18.8 | And my father paid the priest $200 and some odd dollars to marry us. |
| 1:25.5 | So he actually bribed them. |
| 1:30.1 | So my question is, um, do I need an annulment or was this marriage valid? So, Joanna, are you still in this marriage? |
| 1:39.7 | No, no. Divorced for some time now. So it, well, first of all, this is, this is a new one for me in the sense of a, |
| 1:49.1 | bribing a priest to do a marriage. |
| 1:52.4 | That's very inappropriate, of course, and that was wrong for your father to do. |
| 1:58.6 | But it doesn't necessarily make it wrong. What makes it possibly invalid |
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