Originally aired on 06/03/2025

Patrick fields pressing questions from listeners, sharing candid thoughts on funerals, Catholic liturgy, and the discomfort that comes with boundary-crossing moments at Mass. He takes questions about marriage struggles, the reality of affordable housing fears for seniors, and clears up confusion about saints interceding in our lives, using both scripture and Church tradition as his compass. Between updates on a centuries-old monastery’s closure, playful nods to Taco Tuesday, and nuanced guidance on canon law, Patrick blends gravity and warmth, meeting faith and daily life head-on.

 

• Peggy (email) - I was recently at a funeral Mass where "words of remembrance" were shared before the Liturgy of the Word (00:41)
• Patrick reads and responds to an email about struggling marriages and he hopes marriages can be saved and improved (03:32)
• Bunny (email) – I heard a homily where the bishop said that saints might not be able to hear us or help us (08:02)
• Michael - Affordable housing for seniors: what is our Christian perspective for this? (20:27)
• Matt (email) - If a couple, after years of marriage, become aware of an impediment that was present on their wedding day, but have no interest in separating, would their attempt at marriage be invalid and require being married again? (33:18)
• James (email) - In John 14:27, Jesus says: "Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you." Could you help me understand what kind of peace Jesus is offering us here? How is His peace different from the kind of peace we often seek or experience in the world? And how can we truly attain this kind of peace in our daily lives? (39:51)
• Last living grandson of 10th U.S. President John Tyler, dies at 96 (43:34)
• Egypt Closes St. Catherine’s Monastery: Confiscates Its Property and Evicts the Monks (46:56)