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Daily TV Mass
Daily TV Mass Thursday March 26, 2026
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Fr. Peter Turrone
From the historic Loreto Abbey Chapel. With the kind cooperation of the Toronto Catholic District School Board, the National Catholic Broadcasting Council presents the Daily TV Mass.
SPEAKER_09Welcome to the celebration of the Daily TV Mass. I'm Father Peter Turone. The televising of this Mass is made possible by the contribution from an anonymous donor from California. This Mass is offered for the conversion of sinners and for the intentions of his family. Our thanks to our donor for the gift of televising of this mass to the faithful of Canada, U.S., and around the world. In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.
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SPEAKER_09The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the communion of the Holy Spirit be with you all.
SPEAKER_07And in every Spirit.
SPEAKER_09Brothers and sisters, let us acknowledge our sins and so prepare ourselves to celebrate the sacred mysteries. I confess to Almighty God and to you, my brothers and sisters, that I have greatly sinned in my thoughts and in my words, in what I have done and in what I have failed to do. Through my fault, through my fault, through my most grievous fault. Therefore I ask Blessed Mary, ever virgin, all the angels and saints, and you, my brothers and sisters, to pray for me to the Lord our God. May Almighty God have mercy on us, forgive us our sins, and bring us to everlasting life.
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SPEAKER_09Lord have mercy.
SPEAKER_06Lord have mercy.
SPEAKER_09Christ have mercy. Lord have mercy.
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SPEAKER_09Let us pray. Be near, O Lord, to those who plead before you, and look kindly on those who place their hope in your mercy, to cleanse from the stain of their sins, they may persevere in holy living, and be made full heirs of your promise. For our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God for ever and ever.
SPEAKER_00A reading from the book of Genesis. When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord appeared to Abram and said to him, I am God Almighty. Walk before me and be blameless, and I will make my covenant between me and you, and will make you exceedingly numerous. Then Abram fell on his face, and God said to him, As for me, this is my covenant with you. You shall be the ancestor of a multitude of nations. No longer shall your name be Abram, but your name shall be Abraham. For I have made you the ancestor of a multitude of nations. I will make you exceedingly fruitful, and I will make nations of you, and kings shall come from you. I will establish my covenant between me and you, and your offspring after you throughout their generations, for an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and to your offspring after you, and I will give to you and to your offspring after you the land where you are now an alien, all the land of Canaan for a perpetual holding, and I will be their God. God said to Abraham, As for you, you shall keep my covenant, you and your offspring after you throughout their generations. The word of the Lord.
SPEAKER_09Jesus said to the people, Very truly I tell you, whoever keeps my word will never see death. The Jews said to him, Now we know that you have a demon. Abraham died, and so did the prophets. Yet you say, Whoever keeps my word will never taste death. Are you greater than our father Abraham who died? The prophets also died. Who do you claim to be? Jesus answered, If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing. It is my Father who glorifies me. He of whom you say he is our God, though you do not know him. But I know him. If I would say that I do not know him, I would be a liar like you. But I do know him, and I keep his word. Your ancestor Abraham rejoiced that he would see my day. He saw it and was glad. Then the Jews said to him, You are not yet fifty years old, and have you seen Abraham? But Jesus said to them, Very truly I tell you, before Abraham was, I am. So they picked up stones to throw at him. But Jesus hid himself and went out of the temple. The gospel of the Lord. Very truly I tell you, before Abraham was, I am. So one of the best courses that we got to take in the seminary was biblical studies. And we were studying the gospel according to John. I remember there were multiple moments when we were gobsmacked. We were just left overwhelmed by what the professor was saying to us. And we can go to Mass and hear the gospel over and over again, but the connections that were being made that day were so profound. It brought a deeper understanding of who God is, who Jesus is, and also inspired and brought to a deeper love for Him. But before I get into that, I'd like to go one step back and look at the first reading. And it may seem like something insignificant, but as I was preparing, doing the Let's Jose divina on these readings, for a few days I kept focusing on this one particular verse. And it has to do with when God is speaking to Abraham. It says that Abraham, right, he is before the Lord, so he falls on his face. So Abraham fell on his face, and God said to him, So the Lord appears to Abraham, and then he changes his name, of course, gives him this mission. But what you find, what we find, is that Abraham, Abraham has this profound humility. So before God, he recognizes his own nothingness, the power, the majesty, and the beauty of God, and his response is to fall before him, to lay prostrate before him. And when I was ordained to the priesthood, so that was the last experience I had of doing that. So we'd lay down and we've been calling on the saints to prepare to receive ordination. So why do we lay prostrate? Well, again, it's the total surrender and submission to God. So giving oneself completely over to the Lord. So there's this profound humility. And because Abraham is so humble, he trusts in God and God speaks to him. So he is fully attentive to what God has to say. He doesn't presume anything about himself. And as a consequence of that, the Lord says the most beautiful things to him. He says, You shall be the ancestor of a multitude of nations. Your name shall be Abraham, and a multitude of nations shall come forth from you, exceedingly fruitful. Imagine that. The nations and the kings will come forth for him. So it's because of his profound humility, like going before the Lord, that he's able to actually listen, and what God has to say to him is truly remarkable. St. Paul VI used to say that the human person is their greatest when they're kneeling. Not all of us can kneel if we have knee problems or other things. I understand that. But we should, we are a body and soul composite as human beings. So therefore, praying with our body as a body is also very important. So it's not just enough that we believe, but as a body, we show who we belong to. I'm reading the autobiography, so the biography of Fulton Sheen, and he would spend one hour every day on his knees before the Lord in adoration. And he said that it wasn't all the years of study, and I'm sure part of that was uh which contributed to his success in evangelization, but it was profound humility, but recognizing that he is not God, that God is God. And therefore, putting everything in the Lord's hands, God was able to do great things for him, through him and for him and with him. And he does this especially with Abraham. So Abraham so gets a sense of what's going to happen in the future. So in the gospel, Jesus says to those who are listening to him, he says, look, he said, Abraham was excited. He was so happy to be able to see this day. So Abraham had a sense, so God had revealed to him, right? So God reveals this to him. And then now his ancestors, so those that are going to come after him, unfortunately, those that are coming after Abraham, there are many who accept Jesus, but there are many who do not. And unfortunately, there are some of Abraham's spiritual children who are hard-hearted. They lack humility. So they are closed to what they see before them. Despite the fact that Jesus is performing all these miracles, everything that God had prophesied through Isaiah, and these religious leaders knew what the Messiah was going to do. They refused to accept it. So they had this conception of the Messiah. He had to be a certain way. They were locked in their own pride because Jesus was calling them to conversion. And yet many of them, not all of them, many did, but many of these leaders refused to repent. We look at all of these things together. We look in the past, just a few months ago, we were looking at the baptism of our Lord. So the Lord is the one that comes. You know, John the Baptist is overwhelmed by the scene. Jesus arrives there. And then the religious leaders, what are they doing? They're standing on the side and they're watching. But Jesus says, look, you don't want to weep, you don't want to celebrate. You're just standing on the side doing nothing. You're not making a decision. But the Lord is before us and He wants us, He wants to reveal Himself to us. But the first condition is humility. So we pray as bodies as we can. If we can lay prostrate before the Lord or kneel, then we should do it. But if we can't, or we can even lay down, but we can still be as proud as a peacock. So what that means is that inwardly we need and have to ask God for the grace to have humility of heart, which means to recognize that I'm not God, you're not God, only Jesus is God. And therefore, once I acknowledge that, there's an incredible sense of freedom. That I don't need to know everything and understand everything, but I can know someone who does, and that's Christ. And what he has to say to us is remarkable. Think about it. He says, I am who I am. So going back to that lesson, we were overwhelmed, right, with joy because the professor was saying, Remember when the Lord speaks to Moses in the burning bush and he says, Who do you am I? He says, Who are you? He says, I am who I am. Ego Ami. The only time you find that in the New Testament is when Jesus is speaking. And he says that when he says, The Son of Man will be lifted up, you know that I am. He says, When before Abraham, I am. When they come to arrest them in the garden, and then Mel Gibson has this in his scene, The Passion of the Christ, when all the guards fall to the side, they're overwhelmed when he says, I am, ego aimi. Because they recognize that's not an ordinary man, but that's God in the flesh. That's God in the flesh. And this is who we love, and this is who we dedicate our lives to, and this is who we give ourselves to in prayer, especially as we come towards the end of this holy season of Lent, and we move towards the sacred triturum, where we meditate with profound sorrow and love, the passion, the death, and the resurrection of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, who is the great I am. Let us now turn to the Lord, lifting up our hearts and minds. Brothers and sisters, we bring all of our prayers to God, trusting that he will answer them according to his will. For all the baptized as they continue their journey to renewal at Easter, we pray to the Lord.
SPEAKER_07Lord, hear our prayer.
SPEAKER_09For adults and children preparing to join the church through baptism, we pray to the Lord.
SPEAKER_07Lord, hear our prayer.
SPEAKER_09For people of the world who need our care, the starving, the homeless, the lonely and depressed, we pray to the Lord. Lord, hear our prayers. For all of those in our daily TV Mass Prayer Intentions book, we pray to the Lord.
SPEAKER_07Lord, hear our prayer.
SPEAKER_09This month's community prayers for fathers, grandfathers, and protectors that they may lead with wisdom and humility inspired by the quiet faith of Saint Joseph. We pray to the Lord.
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SPEAKER_09Heavenly Father, we are confident that you will answer our prayers because we ask them through Christ our Lord.
SPEAKER_07Amen.
SPEAKER_09Blessed are you, Lord, God of all creation. For through your goodness, we have received the bread we offer you. Fruit of the earth and work of human hands. You'll become for us the bread of life. Blessed are you, Lord God of all creation. For through your goodness we have received the wine we offer you, the fruit of the vine, the work of human hands, you'll become our spiritual dream. Pray, brothers and sisters, that my sacrifice and yours may be acceptable to God, the Almighty Father.
SPEAKER_06May the Lord accept the sacrifice in your hands for the praise and glory of his name. For our good and all this holy church.
SPEAKER_09Look with favor, Lord, we pray on these sacrificial offerings that they may profit our conversion and the salvation of all the world through Christ our Lord.
SPEAKER_05Amen.
SPEAKER_09The Lord be with you. Lift up your hearts. Let us give thanks to the Lord our God. And it is right and just it is truly right and just our duty and our salvation, always and everywhere, to give you thanks. Lord, Holy Father, Almighty and Eternal God, for through the saving passion of our Son, the whole world has received a heart to confess the infinite power of your majesty. Since by the wondrous power of the cross, your judgment on the world is now revealed, and the authority of Christ crucified. And so, Lord, with all the angels and saints, we too give you thanks, as an exaltation we acclaim.
SPEAKER_03Holy, holy, holy God of love.
SPEAKER_09Make holy, therefore, these gifts we pray, by sending down your spirit upon them like the dewful, so that they may become for us the body and blood of our Lord Jesus Christ. At the time he was betrayed and entered willingly into his passion. He took bread, and giving thanks, broke it, and gave it to his disciples, saying, Take this, all of you, and eat of it. For this is my body, which will be given up for you. In a similar way, when supper was ended, he took the chalice and once more giving thanks, he gave it to his disciples, saying, Take this, all of you, and drink from it. For this is the chalice of my blood, the blood of the new and eternal covenant, which will be poured out for you and for many, for the forgiveness of sins. Do this in memory of me. The mystery of faith. We proclaim your death and profess your resurrection until your community therefore, as we celebrate the memorial of his death and resurrection, we offer you, Lord, the bread of life and the chalice of salvation, giving thanks to you have held us worthy to be in your presence and minister to you. Humbly we pray that partaking of the body and blood of Christ, we may be gathered into one by the Holy Spirit. Remember, Lord, your church spread throughout the world and bring her to the fullness of charity, together with Leo our Pope and Francis, our bishop, and all the clergy. Remember also our brothers and sisters who have fallen asleep in the hope of the resurrection, and all who have died in your mercy. Welcome them into the light of your face. Have mercy on us all, we pray, that with the blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of God, O Blessed Joseph, our spouse, with the blessed apostles and all the saints who have pleased you throughout the ages, we may merit to be co-heirs to eternal life, and may praise and glorify you through your Son, Jesus Christ. Through him and with him and in him, O God, Almighty Father, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, our glory and honor is yours for ever and ever. At the Savior's command, informed by divine teaching, we dare to say, Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. Deliver us, Lord, we pray, from every evil. Graciously grant peace in our days, that by the help of your mercy we may be always free from sin and safe from all distress, as we await the blessed hope and the coming of our Savior, Jesus Christ.
SPEAKER_06For the kingdom of power and glory now and forever.
SPEAKER_09Lord Jesus Christ, who said to your apostles, Peace I leave you, my peace I give you. Look not on our sins, but on the faith of your church, and graciously grant her peace and unity in accordance with your will, who live and reign forever and ever.
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SPEAKER_09The peace of the Lord be with you always. And with your spirit. Let us offer each other the sign of peace. Peace, peace.
SPEAKER_03You take away the sins of the world. Have mercy on us.
SPEAKER_09Blessed are those called to the supper of the Lamb.
SPEAKER_01My Jesus, I believe that you are present in this holy sacrament of the altar. I love you above all things, and I passionately desire to receive you into my soul. Since I cannot now receive you sacramentally, come spiritually into my soul, so that I may unite myself wholly to you now and forever. Amen.
SPEAKER_09Nourished by your saving gifts, we beseech your mercy, Lord, that by this same sacrament with which you feed us in this present age, you may make us partakers of life eternal. Through Christ our Lord. The Lord be with you. Go in peace.
SPEAKER_02Our thanks to our donor for the gift of this mass.