Daily TV Mass
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Daily TV Mass
Daily TV Mass Friday May 8, 2026
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Fr. Michael Coutts, S.J.
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_01In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.
SPEAKER_08Amen.
SPEAKER_01The grace and peace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of the Father, the friendship of the Holy Spirit be with you all. And with your spirit. Welcome to the celebration of this daily televised mass. I'm Father Michael Coots. The televising of this mass is made possible by a contribution from an anonymous donor from Scarborough, Ontario. This Mass is being offered for the repose of the soul, souls of Christian and Brandon Lee, Gloria L. Chin, Mama Chinney, Hector and Joseph Chin, Derek Lee, and all the deceased family members and friends, for the souls in purgatory and for all the unborn. Our thanks go to the donors for the gift of this Mass for people all across Canada and across the world. As we begin this Eucharist, let us ask the Lord, the God of mercy and compassion, to forgive us. You were sent to heal the contrite, Lord, have mercy. Lord have mercy. You came to call sinners Christ have mercy. You are seated at the right hand of the Father to intercede for us. Lord, have mercy.
SPEAKER_06Lord have mercy.
SPEAKER_01May Almighty God have mercy on us, forgive us our sins and bring us to everlasting life. Amen. Let us pray. Grant us, Lord, that being rightly conformed to the paschal mysteries, what we celebrate in joy may protect and save us with perpetual power. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, forever and ever. Amen.
SPEAKER_00A reading from the Acts of the Apostles. The Apostles and the Elders, with the consent of the whole church, decided to choose men from among their members, and to send them to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas. They sent Judas called Barsabbas and Silas, leaders among the brothers, with the following letter. The brothers, both the apostles and the elders, to the believers of Gentile origin in Antioch and Syria and Sicilia. Greetings. Since we have heard that certain persons who have gone out from us, though with no instructions from us, have said things to disturb you and have unsettled your minds. We have decided unanimously to choose representatives and send them to you, along with our beloved Barnabas and Paul, who have risked their lives for the sake of our Lord Jesus Christ. We have therefore sent Judas and Silas who themselves will tell you the same things by word of mouth, for it has seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us to impose on you no further burden than these essentials, that you abstain from what has been sacrificed to idols and from blood, and from what is strangled and from fornication. If you keep yourselves from these, you will do well. Farewell. So they were sent off and went down to Antioch. When they gathered the congregation together, they delivered the letter. When its members read it, they rejoiced at the exhortation. The word of the Lord.
SPEAKER_04My heart is deadfast or God. My heart is dead fast. I will sing and make me sick. I will praise your donations alone. Awake my soul wake up and ha I will awake a dun. I will praise your nations all. I will give thanks to Lord among the people. I will sing praises to you among the nations. For your steadfast love is as high as the heavens. Your faithfulness extends to the clouds. I will praise you among nations alone. I call you my friend, for I have made known to you all that the father has told me.
SPEAKER_01And we your spirit. A reading from the Holy Gospel according to John. Glory to the Lord. Before the hour had come to depart from this world and go and go to the Father, Jesus said to his disciples, This is my commandment that you love one another as I have loved you. No one has greater love than this, to lay down one's life for one's friends. You are my friends if you do what I command you. I do not call you servants any longer, because the servant does not know what the master is doing. But I have called you friends, because I have made known to you everything that I have heard from my father. You did not choose me, I chose you, and I appointed you to go and bear fruit, fruit that will last, so that the Father will give you whatever you ask him in my name. I am giving you these commands so that you may love one another. The Gospel of the Lord. Praise be your Lord Jesus Christ. A little over 60 years ago, we had the Second Vatican Council. At that time, the church looked at itself in order to reform itself and came up with four main documents, four main decrees. The first was looking at the church's nature and identity. What was the church? The church was supposed to be lumen gentium, a light to the nation, to invite people to walk out of darkness into light. And secondly, what was their mission? How were they going to do all this? They were going to do it as the second decree said, Gaudium et spes, with joy and with hope. But they needed some inspiration, they needed some strength, and that came to the third decree, which was Verbum Dei, the Word of God, the source of all its strength and joy and mission was from the scriptures. The very first decree, which comes at the end as a follow-up, was how was this going to be shed in its way of preaching, in its way of prayer, and in its rituals? And the decree was Sacrosanctum Concilium, the sacred council on how we pray and how we go about praying things. This is a far cry from the first Vatican Council, first council of the church in Jerusalem. And that is where Paul and Barnabas will take the decrees of that first council and go up to Antioch. At that time, it was not all the bishops and their experts, it was basically not only limited to the apostles and the elders, but all the believers in the church. And there were very few at that time. So they were facing persecutions, persecutions from the Jews and persecutions for the Gentiles. And therefore, in looking at its identity and how the way they would proceed, they would look for things in a very practical way. There was no theology as such. That would come much later in the Council of Nicaea in 325, in the Council of Constantinople in 381, in the Council of Ephesus later on, when they discussed the divinity of Christ, the way we spoke about the Trinity, the theology about Mary. But at this time they were simply saying, how do we go about preaching the kingdom of God? And they came up with four decrees. And the decrees were three of them had to do with very practical matters, dietary decrees, and the fourth one had to do with morality. They should not eat food that was offered to idols. They should not eat food that was strangled. They should not eat food that had blood still in it. And this made sense from a very practical way. This was the day before refrigeration, and with all the eco-lie that we have today, we could realize how easily it would spread. And the fourth was to deal with morality: keep pure, avoid from fornication. Now, what had happened was the people were being persecuted by the Jews and the Gentiles because the believers believed that, with the Jewish background, that the Gentiles who were going to be Christian had to follow all the traditions of the Jews. And the Gentiles said, no, we don't need to do that. And so there was a clash, and it started off in Antioch. And so Paul and Barnabas come down to the church in Jerusalem and put forward this discussion. And they looked at it and they said, one thing we have to do is that the belief is in Jesus Christ, and therefore we should not put burdens on the Gentiles. And so this decree that they had was received by great joy by the Christians, both Jews and Gentiles in Antioch. And it was at Antioch that the first, for the first time, they called the believers Christians. And what were they saying? They're saying, look, we need to believe in Jesus Christ and practice it on the one basis. Love one another as I have loved you, as we hear Jesus in the gospel today. So there's no need of the traditions of circumcision and keeping the Sabbath according to the traditions of the Jews. Keep it and be holy. And this was the decree that still works within our church today. As we come to the gospel, we find something quite different. Namely, Jesus had just washed the feet of his disciples. Now this was a job for servants and slaves. Then Jesus removes, puts on his outer garments once again and sits at the table, and the whole atmosphere is changed. He's no longer treating them as a servant would treat a master. He is the master, but he's not treating his disciples as people who learn. He's treating them on the same level as he is. It's the first example of synodality, a word that we don't seem to like. He says, I'm calling you friends now. I'm calling you friends because I've got a mandate for you to love one another as I have loved you. A love that will show its standard and its sacrifice the same way Jesus showed, namely to give up his life for the sake of those who loved him. God has loved the world from the beginning of all time. Our story of creation is just a nanosecond in the whole story of evolution, as our scientists believe. 13 billion years ago, God was in love with the creation that He had of all the galaxies and all the universe. The love of God was shown in a relationship and keeping them in existence by they being in the very existence of God. And then in the fullness of time, as we hear in the letter to the Hebrews, God sent His only Son, His Son who could show us who this God who loved us, the God we call Father, the God that holds us in the palm of God's hand. Now we could see in a very tangible way that this is a God who does not let us down. It's a mind-boggling system. How can this God who is totally in charge of everything belong to us in a very tangible way? This is the preaching of the kingdom of God. Not just our salvation, but the salvation of the entire creation. As Paul says in the letter to the Romans, the whole creation is groaning until it receives its fulfillment, its own salvation. The trees, the infrastructure, the huge big tractors that we see working. You and I have been called to lift up their prayers to God. This is the grace given to us. What a monumental task. And we are just sinners today. Yet we have been given this task because Jesus walks with us. God bless you all. Let us now pray together. Let us pray to the Lord, who is the King of the universe, that the Lord may walk with us as we journey in proclaiming the kingdom of God. We pray to the Lord.
SPEAKER_07Lord, hear our prayers.
SPEAKER_01Heavenly Father, you have entrusted the earth to us, to it, to people it and make it prosper. Inspire us to work wholeheartedly for this salvation. We pray to the Lord.
unknownLord, hear our prayers.
SPEAKER_01Father of all mankind, do not forget what your hands have made. Grant that all who work may have secure employment and a fit standard of living. We pray to the Lord.
SPEAKER_07Lord, hear our prayer.
SPEAKER_01For our sponsors of the Mass today from Scarborough and for those in our Daily TV Mass Prayer Intention book, we pray to the Lord.
SPEAKER_05Lord, hear our prayer.
SPEAKER_01Through this month of May, our community prays to follow the example of Mary, especially to mothers, grandmothers, and all who lovingly serve those in need, that they may be filled with joy, compassion, and mercy. We make this prayer through Christ our Lord.
SPEAKER_06Amen.
SPEAKER_01Blessed are you, Lord, God of all creation, for through your goodness we have this bread we offer you. Fruit of the earth and work of human hands, it will become for us the bread of life.
SPEAKER_03Blessed be God forever.
SPEAKER_01The mystery of this wine. And water, may we come to share in the divinity of Christ who humble Himself to share in our humanity. Blessed are you, Lord, God of all creation, for through your goodness we have this wine we offer you. Fruit of the wine and work of human hands, it will become for us our spiritual drink.
SPEAKER_07Blessed be God forever.
SPEAKER_01Lord God, be pleased to accept these gifts that we offer to you with humble and with contrite hearts. Thank you. Pray, my sisters, my brothers, that this our sacrifice be acceptable to God the Almighty Father.
SPEAKER_07May the Lord accept the sacrifice in your hands for the praise and glory of God's name, of our good and the good of all His holy churches.
SPEAKER_01Graciously sanctify these gifts, O Lord, and accepting the oblation of the spiritual sacrifice, make of us an eternal offering to you through Christ our Lord. Amen. The Lord be with you and lift up your hearts. Let us give thanks to the Lord our God. It is right and just truly right and just our duty and our salvation at all times to acclaim you, O God, but in this time above all to Lord You yet more gloriously, when Christ our Passover has been sacrificed, through Him the children of light rise to eternal life, and the halls of the heavenly kingdom are thrown open to the faithful, for his death is our ransom from death, his life, his rising, alive to all the risen. Therefore, overcome with paschal joy every land, every people exalts in your praise, and even the heavenly powers with the angelic host sing together the unending hymn of your glory as we acclaim.
SPEAKER_04Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.
SPEAKER_01You are indeed holy, O Lord, the fount of all holiness. Make holy, therefore, these gifts by sending down your spirit upon them like the dewfall, so that they may become for us the body and blood of your Son, our Lord Jesus Christ. At the time he was betrayed and entered willingly into his passion, he took bread and giving you 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, once more giving thanks, 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. The mystery of faith.
SPEAKER_04We proclaim your death and profess your action until you come home.
SPEAKER_01Therefore, 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 that 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, Francis, our bishop, all the clergy, and this entire people of God. 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, that with the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of God, with Blessed Joseph her spouse, with the Blessed Apostles, with Saint Jean de Brabaf, Isaac Jogues, and our Canadian martyrs, and all the saints who have pleased you throughout the ages, we may merit to be co-heirs to eternal life and praise and glorify you through your Son, Jesus Christ. Through him, with him and in him, O God Almighty Father, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, all glory and honor is yours forever and ever. 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, from every evil, graciously grant peace in our day, that by the help of your mercy we may be always free from sin, safe from all distresses, we await the blessed hope, the coming of our Savior, Jesus Christ. For the kingdom, the power, and the glory are yours now and forever. Lord 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 a peace and unity in accordance with your will, who live and reign forever and ever. Amen. Peace of the Lord be with you always. And with your strength. Let us share with one another a sign of this peace and friendship.
SPEAKER_04Of mercy on us.
SPEAKER_01Behold the Lamb of God, behold him who takes away the sins of the world. Blessed are those who are called to the supper of the Lamb. Lord, I am not worthy that you should enter under my roof, but only say the word, and my soul shall be healed. May the body and blood of Christ bring us all to everlasting life.
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_01The Lord be with you.
SPEAKER_08And with your spirit.
SPEAKER_01May Almighty God bless you, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Go in the peace of Christ, hallelujah, hallelujah.
SPEAKER_02Our thanks to our donor for the gift of this mass.