Daily TV Mass
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Daily TV Mass
Daily TV Mass Thursday April 16, 2026
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Fr. Peter Jae Choi
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 Peter J. Choi. The televising of this Mass is made possible by the contributions from three donors. The first is the estate of Aldea Beaugery and Wilfrid Gervais of Gatineau, Quebec, in memory of Aldea and Wilfred, with love from their families. For the intentions of their children and grandchildren, in thanksgiving for the daily TV Mass and for all souls, especially those in most need of mercy. The second is an anonymous donor from Milton, Ontario, in thanksgiving for graces received and for special intentions. The third is Anthony Berganza from Thornhill, Ontario, in remembrance of the first death anniversary of Maurice Berganza, who passed away on April 23rd, 2025. Also for his deceased parents, Martin and Agnes and Brother Jerome. May their souls rest in peace. Our thanks to our donors for the gift of this Mass. 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_07And with your spirit.
SPEAKER_01Brothers and sisters, let us call to mind 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 really sinned in my thoughts and in my words, in what I have done, in what I have failed to do through my fault, through my fault, through my most grievous fault. Therefore I ask Blessing 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 everlasting life. Lord have mercy. Christ have mercy. Lord have mercy.
SPEAKER_07Lord have mercy.
SPEAKER_01Let us pray. O God, who for the salvation of the world brought about the paschal sacrifice, be favorable to the supplications of your people, so that Christ, our High Priest, interceding on our behalf, may by his likeness to ourselves bring us reconciliation, and by his equality with you free us from our sins. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God forever and ever.
SPEAKER_08Amen.
SPEAKER_00A reading from the Acts of the Apostles. When the temple police had brought the apostles from preaching in the temple, they had them stand before the council. The high priest questioned them, saying, We give you strict orders not to teach in this name. Yet here you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching, and you are determined to bring this man's blood on us. But Peter and the apostles answered, We must obey God rather than any human authority. The God of our ancestors raised up Jesus, whom you had killed by hanging him on a tree. God exalted him at his right hand as leader and savior that he might give repentance to Israel and forgiveness of sins. And we are witnesses to these things. And so is the Holy Spirit whom God has given to those who obey him. When the members of the council heard this, they were enraged and wanted to kill them.
SPEAKER_05Happy are those who take refuge in him. You believe in me, Thomas, because you have seen me happy are those who have not seen me but still believe Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_01A reading from the Holy Gospel according to John. The one who comes from heaven is above all. He testifies to what he has seen and heard, yet no one accepts his testimony. Whoever has accepted his testimony has certified this, that God is true. He whom God has sent speaks the words of God, for he gives the Spirit without measure. The Father loves the Son, and has placed all things in his hands. Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life. Whoever disobeys the Son will not see life, but must endure God's wrath. The Gospel of the Lord. For the visual effect, they put a bar graph across the bottom, which represented the verses in the Bible. And each of the 36,799 cross references were depicted as an arc with different colors and different lengths. What they ended up were these tens of thousands of rainbows shown across the screen and practically no empty spaces left. The Bible is composed of 73 books written over the course of 1,500 years by 40 different authors who lived on three different continents. The entire Bible is interconnected. Certain themes and concepts recur throughout the scriptures. Consistent messages run through the entire Bible. There are over 300 prophecies concerning the coming of the Messiah that were fulfilled by Jesus. There's no doubt in my mind that the Bible is the Word of God. Although the public revelation was complete with the scriptures, God continues to unfold his plan of salvation in our lives. I remember back in 2000, I went to Mexico as a seminarian for a mission. I fell in love with the mission and I was seriously thinking about leaving the seminary to join the Franciscans. Then one day, after I finished the day of helping the indigenous community, I sat down and prayed to God. And I said, Lord, I love being here. If you asked me to become a Franciscan, you know I would. I hadn't even finished the sentence and I heard a response in my heart. Why do you think I brought you to Canada? Your mission is in Toronto. I felt confused. At first I thought my mind was playing tricks on me. And then I paused and thought about it, and I came to a realization that I didn't even finish my sentence when the response came to me. I spent more time praying, and I realized it was God who spoke to me. I didn't know it because that never happened to me before. It was the first time God spoke to me. I came to a realization that God often talks to us. It's just that I'm too often busy telling God what to do and what I want. I think Christian discipleship begins when we stop telling God what to do and start to listen to Him and obey His will. Even though I had to spend time discerning my vocation to the priesthood, in a certain sense I knew deep in my heart that God was calling me to the priesthood. After I was ordained a priest in the Archdiocese of Perano back in 2006, I remember having a small crisis. I felt like becoming a priest meant that I had arrived. And once I got there, I was left bewildered. I needed to find answers to these questions. Now what? What kind of priest am I going to be? A few months later, I found this prayer written by Bishop Ken Untener. And since then this prayer has become a roadmap in my priesthood. And let me share that prayer with you. It's called Prophets of a Future, Not Our Own. It helps now and then to step back and take the long view. The kingdom is not only beyond our efforts, it is even beyond our vision. We accomplish in our lifetime only a fraction of the magnificent God's work. Nothing we do is complete, which is another way of saying that the kingdom always lies beyond us. No statement says all that could be said. No prayer fully expresses our faith. No confession brings perfection. No pastoral visit brings wholeness. No program accomplishes the church's mission. No set of goals and objectives include everything. This is what we are about. We plant the seas that will one day grow. We water the seas already planted, knowing that they hold future promise. We lay foundations that will need further development. We provide yeast that produces effects far beyond our capabilities. We cannot do everything, and there is a sense of liberation in realizing that. This enables us to do something and to do it well. It may be incomplete, but it is a beginning, a step along the way, an opportunity for the Lord's grace to enter and do the rest. We may never see the end results, but that is the difference between the master builder and the worker. We are workers, not master builders, ministers, not messiahs. We are prophets of a future, not our own. So the coolest thing about being a priest is when people ask me who I work for or what I do for a living, I get to say, I work for God. My job is to share the good news with others. Just like what Mother Teresa once said, I'm not called to be successful. I'm called to be faithful. Being faithful to the duties God assigned to us. That's our mission. What we find in today's first reading is the apostles were once afraid and went into hiding, made a comeback. And now they're boldly preaching the good news. All they had to do was to keep preaching the good news and leave the rest to God. Whenever we feel alone or even abandoned, let us remind ourselves that God's silence is not the same as Him doing nothing. It takes time for the seeds to germinate. When you water the plant, it takes time to grow. God is always working behind the scenes, preparing for our growth and for our breakthrough. So when we are tempted to say, Why is this happening to me? We need to tell ourselves this is happening for a reason. I'm not the master builder. He is. There was once a priest who was very ambitious. He wanted to change the world. He felt discouraged when he realized he couldn't change the world. So he made it his mission to change his parish. But he couldn't. So he became more realistic with his expectations and told himself that he was going to change just the people who were around him. But he couldn't even do that either. He came to the realization that the only person he could change was himself. So he worked on himself and made changes in himself. Once people noticed that he became more patient and kind to others, more attentive to the needs of others, and became more generous and forgiving, slowly people around him began to change. And then his parishioners changed too. If you want to change the world, work on yourself first.
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SPEAKER_01Catherine Oceana said it so well. Be who God meant you to be, and you will set the world on fire. Let us offer petitions to God our Father who loves us and hears all our prayers. For all those in their daily TV Mass Prayer Intentions book, we pray to the Lord.
SPEAKER_08Lord hear our prayer.
SPEAKER_01For 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.
SPEAKER_07Lord hear our prayer.
SPEAKER_01God, our Father, we have presented to you all of our needs. We ask you to grant them through Christ our Lord. Blessed are you, Lord, God of all creation. For through goodness we receive the bread we offer you, fruit of the earth and work of human hands. He'll become for us the bread of life. For through your goodness, we receive the wine we offer you, fruit of the vine and work of human hands. You'll become our spiritual drink. May our prayers rise up to you, O Lord, together with the sacrificial offerings, so they purified by your graciousness, we may be conformed to the mysteries of your mighty love through Christ our Lord. Amen. The Lord be with you. And with 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 Lord, but on this day above all, to lodge 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.
SPEAKER_05Holy, holy, holy God of love, love sun, as it is in holy comes in the sun in the world.
SPEAKER_01You are indeed holy, O Lord, and all you have created rightly gives your praise. For through your Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, by the power and working of the Holy Spirit, you give life to all things and make them holy. And you never cease to gather a people to yourself, so that from the rising of the sun to its setting, a pure sacrifice may be offered to your name. Therefore, O Lord, we humbly implore you, by the same Spirit, graciously make holy these gifts we have brought to you for consecration, that they may become the body and blood of your Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, at whose command we celebrate these mysteries. For on the night he was betrayed, he himself took bread, and giving you thanks, he said the blessing, broke the bread, 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 giving you thanks, he said the blessing, and gave the chalice 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.
SPEAKER_05The Mystery of Faith, we proclaim your death of Lord, and profess your resurrection until you come again.
SPEAKER_01Therefore, O Lord, as we celebrate the memorial of the saving passion of your Son, his wondrous resurrection and ascension into heaven, and as we look forward to his second coming, we offer you in thanksgiving this holy and living sacrifice. Look, we pray upon the oblation of your church, and recognizing the sacrificial victim by whose death you will to reconcile us to yourself. Grant that we who are nourished by the body and blood of your Son and filled with his Holy Spirit may become one body, one spirit in Christ. May He make of us an eternal offering to you, so that we may obtain an inheritance with your elect, especially with the most blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of God, with Blessed Joseph Herspas, with the Blessed Apostles and Glorious Martyrs, and all the saints, on this concert intercession in your presence, we rely for unfailing help. May this sacrifice of our reconciliation we pray, O Lord, advance the peace and salvation of all the world. Be pleased to confirm in faith and charity your pilgrim church honored, with your servant Leo, our Pope, and Francis, our bishop, the order of bishops, all the clergy, and the entire people you have gained for your own. Listen graciously to the prayers of this family, whom you have summoned before you. In your compassionate merciful Father, gather to yourself all your children scattered throughout the world, to our departed brothers and sisters, and to all who are pleasing to you at the passing from this life, give kind admittance to your kingdom. There we hope to enjoy forever the fullness of your glory through Christ our Lord, through whom you bestow on the world all that is good.
SPEAKER_04All glory and honor is yours, for heaven to heaven.
SPEAKER_01At 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 breath 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. Lord Jesus Christ, to say 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. Amen. The peace of the Lord be with you always. And with your spirit.
SPEAKER_05Grant us peace.
SPEAKER_01Behold him who takes away the sins of the world. Blessed are those called to the supper of the Lamb.
SPEAKER_08Lord, I am not Lord in our judicial.
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_01Let us pray. Almighty ever living God, who restore us to eternal life in the resurrection of Christ, increase in us, we pray, the fruits of this paschal sacrament, and pour into our hearts the strength of deceiving food through Christ our Lord. Amen. The Lord be with you. And with your spirit. Go in the peace of Christ.
SPEAKER_02Our thanks to our donors for the gift of this mass.