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Daily TV Mass
Daily TV Mass Monday April 13, 2026
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Fr. Gustave Ineza, OP
From the St. Ignatius Chapel at the Manresa Jesuit Spiritual Renewal Center in Pickering, Ontario. The National Catholic Broadcasting Council presents the Daily TV Mass.
SPEAKER_01Welcome to the celebration of the Daily TV Mass. I am Father Gustave Ineza. The televising of this Mass is made possible by the contribution from the estate of Karo Alon Paleston. This Mass is offered for the repose of the soul of Karo Alon Paleston. May her soul and the souls of the faithful departed rest in peace. Amen. In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the communion of the Holy Spirit be with you all.
SPEAKER_05Amen.
SPEAKER_01Dear brothers and sisters, let us acknowledge that we need God's presence in our lives and God's mercy. Lord have mercy. Christ have mercy. Lord have mercy. May the Almighty God have mercy on us, forgive us our sins, and bring us to everlasting life. Amen. Let us pray. Grant we pray, Almighty God, that we who have been renewed by Pascal remedies, transcending the likeness of our earthly parentage, may be transformed in the image of our Heavenly Maker. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God forever and ever.
SPEAKER_00A reading from the Acts of the Apostles. After Peter and John were released by the rulers and elders, they went to their friends and reported what the chief priests and the elders had said to them. When their companions heard it, they raised their voices together to God and said, Sovereign Lord, who made the heaven and the earth, the sea and everything in them, it is you who said by the Holy Spirit, through our ancestor David, your servant, Why did the Gentiles rage, and the peoples imagine vain things? The kings of the earth took their stand, and the rulers have gathered together against the Lord and against his Messiah. For in this city, in fact, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the peoples of Israel, gathered together against your holy servant Jesus, whom you anointed, to do whatever your hand and your plan had predestined to take place. And now, Lord, look at their threats, and grant to your servants to speak your word with all boldness, while you stretch out your hand to heal, and signs and wonders are performed through the name of your holy servant Jesus. When they had prayed, the place in which they were gathered together was shaken, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and spoke the word of God with boldness. The word of the Lord.
SPEAKER_03Against the Lord and his anointing. Say I have set my king on my heart, my holy potential in all who's with seat to things.
SPEAKER_01Reading from the Holy Gospel according to John. Now there was a Pharisee named Nicodemus, a leader of the Jews. He came to Jesus by night and said to him, Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher who has come from God. For no one can do these signs that you do apart from the presence of God. Jesus answered him, Very truly I tell you, no one can see the kingdom of God without being born from above. Nicodemus said to him, How can anyone be born after having grown old? Can one enter a second time into the mother's womb and be born? Jesus answered, Very truly I tell you, no one can enter the kingdom of God without being born of water and spirit. What is born of the flesh is flesh, and what is born of the spirit is spirit. Do not be astonished that I say to you, you must be born from above. The wind blows where it chooses, and you hear the sound of it, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit. The Gospel of the Lord. Some take place between Jesus and large crowds, others are intimate exchanges with individuals. And sometimes the evangelist even recounts discussions between people in which Jesus is not directly involved, like when the blind man was talking to the leaders of the Jewish community. These dialogues become windows through which we see faith unfold. Questions arise and understanding slowly grow. We do not have much of that. In the conversation between Nicodemus and Jesus, we do not see understanding happening towards the end. In the chapters just before today's passage, Jesus had mainly been speaking publicly and to smaller groups of disciples or some other people, like when he was changing the water into wine in Cana. In the Gospel of John, verse three uh chapter three, verse one to eight, the scene becomes personal. Jesus speaks not to a multitude but one person, and his attention to the individual is something deeply characteristic of John's Gospel. Remember the conversation with the Samaritan woman or Jesus talking to Pontius Pilate before he was executed. The man who comes to see Jesus is Nicodemus. Jesus introduces him, John introduces him as a Pharisee and a leader among the Jews. He's not an ordinary seeker. He belongs to a respected religious group and holds the position of authority. His very name, derived from Greek, means victorious among his people. Yet, despite his learning and his status, he comes to Jesus at night. Perhaps because he wishes to avoid the scrutiny of others. Perhaps he is still uncertain about what he believes. Yet he begins the conversation with a sincere acknowledgement. Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher who has come from God. For no one can do the signs that you do unless God is with him. It is striking that a man with such standing still approaches Jesus cautiously under the cover of darkness. Knowledge, reputation, and religious position do not automatically bring clarity or faith. Even someone who appears confident and victorious may still be searching. And so this respected leader approaches Jesus not as a teacher with answers, but as a seeker with questions. Nicodemus' questions, however, are very literal. When Jesus tells him that no one can see the kingdom of God without being born again, he immediately imagines the physical impossibility of returning to the womb. His misunderstanding opens the door for Jesus to explain a deeper truth. Jesus contrasts natural birth with the birth that comes from the Spirit. Age, our intelligence, and physical ability cannot give access to God's kingdom. What opens the door is something entirely different. The gracious, transforming work of God. One must be born of water and the spirit. In verse 6, the distinction between becomes clear. What is born of the flesh is flesh, and what is born of the spirit is spirit. Natural birth gives a human life, but it cannot overcome the brokenness and limitation that belong to our condition. The spirit, however, gives a new kind of life. A spiritual life that enables us to enter the kingdom of God. Our first birth explains our need. Our second birth reveals God's answer. What seems impossible from a human perspective becomes possible through the saving power of God. Now, this language of flesh and spirit, light and darkness, sometimes sounds like a sharp dualism, almost a binary way of looking at life. And you find that all over the Gospel of John and biblical scholars have uh debated, uh saying that John almost did not make it into the canon of the Gospels. Yet in the Gospel of John, these images are meant to reveal the decisive nature of God's grace, even though they may not go entirely into what was the major teaching of the church, especially uh vis-a-vis the dualism. When God acts, something truly new begins. And perhaps the most beautiful evidence of that grace appears later in the story of Nicodemus. At the beginning, he comes secretly under the cover of the night. But at the end of Jesus' life after the crucifixion, we see him again. Alongside Joseph of Arimathea, Nicodemus comes forward to claim the body of Jesus and prepare it for burial. When many others have fled, he is willing to be publicly associated with the crucified Christ. The man who once came quietly in the darkness now acts with courage. Many people experience faith in a similar way. They begin searching quietly, sometimes hesitantly, unsure of what they will find. Yet over time, that search can lead to surprising courage and deeper commitment. This gospel invites us to make the same discovery. It is also a call for us to pray for those who carry responsibility in the church. Religious leaders who in difficult times may feel tempted to remain in the shadows. May they, like Nicodemus, move gradually from fear to courage, trusting that their help and their hope comes from the risen Lord. At the end of today's gospel, Jesus tells Nicodemus, the wind blows where it will, and you hear it sounds it sounds, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. So it is with everyone who is born of the spirit. With this image, Jesus reminds Nicodemus, who was a respected religious leader, that the work of God cannot be controlled, predicted, or confined with human systems, just as no one can command the wind. No one can manage the spirit. For Nicodemus, being born of the Spirit meant learning that faith is not about mastering God or placing God neatly inside our religious categories. Even for a cultured Pharisee, the invitation was to humility, to recognize that God acts freely, often beyond our expectations and beyond the structures we try to impose. The spirit moves where it wills, touching lives and transforming hearts in ways we cannot fully plan or regulate. So, in that sense, being born again also means letting go of the temptation to police God. And let us pray that we may have the same spirit, that we may understand that God works in God's ways, not in human ways. Amen. Now let us bring our prayers and petitions to God. Faithful God, you transformed Nicodemus from a man who came to Jesus in secret into one who courageously honored him at the cross. Strengthen all those who follow Christ today, especially leaders in your church. When fear of uncertainty or uncertainty tempts them to remain silent. Grant them the courage to stand in the light of the gospel and to trust in the power of the risen Lord. We pray to the Lord. For all those in our daily TV mass prayer intentions book, we pray to the Lord. For the month of April, our community prays that all who are burdened by grief or discouragement may be uplifted by the light of the risen Christ and renewed in hope. We pray to the Lord. All these prayers and the prayers that remain deep down in our hearts, we bring them to God and we ask God to grant them through Christ our Lord. Blessed are you, Lord God of all creation, for through your goodness we have received the bread we offer you, for through the earth and work of human hands, it will 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 wine and the work of human hands, it will become a spiritual drink. Let us pray. Receive, O Lord, we pray, these offerings of your exultant church. And as you have given her cause for such great gladness, grant also that the gifts we bring may bear fruit in perpetual happiness through Christ our Lord.
SPEAKER_06Amen.
SPEAKER_01The Lord be with you. And in your spirit. Lift up your hearts. Let us give thanks to the Lord our God. It is right and just it is truly right and just our duty and our salvation at all times to claim you, O Lord, but in this time above all, to Lord You yet more gloriously, when Christ our Passover has been sacrificed. For He is the true Lamb who has taken away the sins of the world. By dying he has destroyed our death, and by rising restored our life. Therefore, overcome with Paschal joy every land, every people exalts in your praise, and even the heavenly powers with the angelic hosts sing together the unending hymn of your glory, as they acclaim. You are indeed holy, O Lord, the fountain of all holiness. Make holy therefore these gifts we pray by sending down your spirit upon them like they do for, so that they may become for us the body and blood of our Lord Jesus Christ. At the time he was betrayed and entered willing into his passion, he took bread, and giving thanks he brought it, and gave it to his disciples, saying, Take these 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 these, 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 these in the memory of me. The mystery of faith. Therefore, as we celebrate the memory of his death and resurrection, we offer your Lord the bread of life and the chance of salvation, giving thanks that we have held us worthy to be in your presence and minister to you. Humbly pray that partaking of the body and blood of Christ, we may be gathered into one by the Holy Spirit. Remember, Lord, your church, spray 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, with the blessed Joseph, our spouse, with the blessed apostles and all the saints who are pleased you throughout the ages, we may merry to be coyers 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 forever and ever.
SPEAKER_06Amen.
SPEAKER_01Our 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 prayer, 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 Saviour, Jesus Christ. Lord Jesus Christ, who said to our 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. Amen. The peace of the Lord be with you always. And with your spirit. Let us offer each other the sign of peace. Blessed are those called the supper of the Lamb.
SPEAKER_02My 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_01Look with kindness upon your people, O Lord, and grant, we pray, that those you were pleased to renew by eternal mysteries may attain in their flesh the incorruptible glory of the resurrection through Christ our Lord. Amen. The Lord be with you.
SPEAKER_06And with you all here.
SPEAKER_01May the Almighty God bless you, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Amen. Our mass is ended. Let us go and glorify the Lord by our lives.
SPEAKER_02Our thanks to our donors for the gift of this Mass.