Catechesis

How Does One Become a Saint?

October 31, 2022October 27, 2022 Articles, Catechesis

Tomorrow, we will celebrate All Saints Day, a feast day in honor of all the souls departed who have made it to heaven, whether they have been formally canonized by the Church or not. In the Catholic Church, we do not have a process for determining if anybody has been condemned to hell, but we […]

Moses and The Finger of God

October 20, 2022October 18, 2022 Articles, Catechesis, The Faith Explained

“Thereupon the LORD spoke to Moses: Speak to Aaron: Stretch out your staff and strike the dust of the earth, and it will turn into gnats throughout the land of Egypt. They did so. Aaron stretched out his hand with his staff and struck the dust of the earth, and gnats came upon human being […]

The God Who ‘Is’ and ‘Will Be’

October 14, 2022October 12, 2022 Articles, Catechesis, The Faith Explained

“Then God spoke to Moses, and said to him: I am the LORD. As God the Almighty I appeared to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, but by my name, LORD, I did not make myself known to them. I also established my covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land in which […]

What’s in a Divine Name?

October 11, 2022October 6, 2022 Articles, Catechesis, The Faith Explained

“‘But,’ said Moses to God, ‘if I go to the Israelites and say to them, ‘The God of your ancestors has sent me to you,’ and they ask me, ‘What is his name?’ what do I tell them?’ God replied to Moses: I am who I am. Then he added: This is what you will […]

Letting God Forgive You

October 8, 2022July 13, 2023 Articles, Catechesis, The Patrick Madrid Show

Recently on The Patrick Madrid Show, listener Bethany called in to the show for her second time to talk to Patrick about a deeply troubling and traumatic time in her life that has weighed on her for years. When she was seventeen years old, she premaritally conceived a child. Under pressure from her family and […]

Explaining the Trinity: Nature and Person

October 7, 2022July 13, 2023 Articles, Catechesis, The Patrick Madrid Show

Recently, listener Frank called in to The Patrick Madrid Show to say something that a lot of Catholics can relate to: “I was wondering about the Holy Trinity. I believe in it, but I don’t understand it.” Patrick understood, saying he thinks that describes a lot of people. They may understand the Trinity to some […]

Is Being a “Good Person” Enough to Get to Heaven?

September 30, 2022July 13, 2023 Articles, Catechesis, The Patrick Madrid Show

If you’ve spent any amount of time in engaging with the modern social sphere in the past few years, you’ve undoubtedly run into people who say things like, “I’m not religious, I’m spiritual. I don’t need religion because I’m a good person. I spread positive vibes, so I don’t need to pray. I don’t need […]

Am I Culpable for Receiving an Invalid Sacrament?

September 27, 2022July 13, 2023 Articles, Catechesis, The Patrick Madrid Show

You may remember from earlier in 2022 when news came out that thousands of baptisms were declared invalid when it was discovered that a priest in Arizona had erroneously been using the words “We baptize you…” instead of “I baptize you…” for 20 years. Because of their invalidity, those thousands of Arizona residents who received […]

Initiation: Baptism and Confirmation

September 16, 2022September 14, 2022 Articles, Catechesis, The Inner Life

As we approach the season of autumn, the first day being September 22nd, we’re going to begin to see many things change. The leaves will begin to change colors, the temperature will drop and the air become crisper, people will begin to layer up with sweaters and jackets, and baseball will be replaced by football. […]

The Liturgy of the Word: Listening to Christ

September 13, 2022September 13, 2022 Articles, Catechesis

As we continue our walk with Jesus through the Mass, we move from His baptism in the river Jordan to His preaching. We experience this in the next part of the Mass, the Liturgy of the Word. Here we usually read first from the Old Testament prophets. Each week Jesus listened to and read these […]

Why Do Babies Need to Be Baptized?

September 11, 2022September 9, 2022 Articles, Catechesis, The Patrick Madrid Show

Recently on The Patrick Madrid Show, listener Esther called in to the show to ask Patrick two questions. Her first question was why do we baptize people using the Trinitarian formula instead of just in Jesus’ name? And her second question was why do babies need to be baptized if it is a form of […]

What Happens When We Die?

September 9, 2022July 13, 2023 Articles, Catechesis, The Patrick Madrid Show

Recently on The Patrick Madrid Show, Tracy from Oakland called in to ask Patrick a few questions about the concepts of death, what happens to the body, and how we reconcile judgment and the resurrection with what we learn in the Catechism. “With ‘Ashes to ashes and dust to dust’, it brought up these questions […]

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