Blessing of Throats on the feast of St. Blaise; Stations of the Cross; Advent wreaths; Seven Churches Visitation on Holy Thursday; St. Andrew Novena; Saffron buns for the feast of St. Lucy… These traditions and many more—ranging from widely practiced to downright obscure—all make up the beauty of liturgical living within the Catholic Church. Kendra […]Read more

Our experience of the Mass has changed. Most of us have felt it over the past year in one way or another. We’re either experiencing Mass from home on a screen, or maybe we’ve been able to return to Mass in person but the safety measures have made us feel disconnected from the sacrament and […]Read more

Do you feel lonely? Isolated? Left out? A study released in January 2020 found that 61% of Americans reported feeling lonely, and that was before social distancing and stay-at-home orders went into effect. Deacon Steve lives in Fort Worth, Texas. He was ordained to the permanent deaconate in August of last year and was assigned […]Read more

Coming up next week is the feast of Our Lady of Lourdes, an apparition of the Virgin Mary. She appeared on February 11, 1858, to a fourteen-year-old girl from a poor, working family. This young girl’s name is Saint Bernadette Soubirous. “Bernadette Soubirous was absolutely startled by what she saw—this beautiful lady dressed in white […]Read more

On Friday, January 29, 2021, over 10,000 people from all fifty states and across the globe will join Relevant Radio to Fast for Life. The #FastforLife movement has reached from Uruguay to India, Canada to South Africa, and everywhere in between. New to #FastforLife? Here’s the idea: on the same day as the March for […]Read more

If your priest or bishop asks you to do something that you don’t want to do, should you do it anyway? If it’s outside of the Church’s authority on faith and morals, are you still obligated to comply? John called The Patrick Madrid Show to ask these questions—specifically with how they relate to the topic […]Read more

Recently on The Patrick Madrid Show, Patrick shared a moving poem, written by an Italian actor, Andrea Roncato, to the son he had pushed to be aborted many years before. It was incredibly emotional, and even Patrick struggled to get through the lines as he read them aloud. Listen to the poem below: The next […]Read more

Have you been discouraged by the way things are going in the country? No matter who you voted for or what political views you hold, I think the majority of us would agree that our nation has become more polarized, divided, and secular. Politics have become more about arguing than compromising and many people have […]Read more