Daily TV Mass Saturday May 9, 2026

Msgr. Samuel Bianco

Transcript

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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.

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Good day and welcome to the celebration of the Daily TV Mass. My name is Monsignor Sambianko. The televising of this mass is made possible by the contributions from our donors. The first is Anne S. Scott and family from Langley, British Columbia, in memory of their brother Gregory Evan Scott. The second are the Knights of Columbus of the St. Christopher Council in Edmonton, Alberta, for the deceased members of their council and their families. This daily Mass TV ministry is made possible by the generous contributions from all our donors in a special way from our monthly donors. This month of May, our community prays to follow the example of Mary by offering joy, compassion, and mercy, especially to our mothers, grandmothers, and all who lovingly serve those in need. Our thanks and gratitude to all the donors for this Mass. In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, Amen. The grace and peace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God our Father, and the communion of the Holy Spirit be with you all. And in order to celebrate this Mass in a proper and appropriate manner, as always, we pause for a moment, we look into our hearts, we ask the Holy Spirit to cleanse our hearts of anything that is evil, mean, or hurtful, and bring us mercy and compassion. You were sent to heal the conduit of heart. 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. May Almighty God have mercy on all of us, forgive us our sins, and bring us all to everlasting life. Let us pray. Almighty and eternal God, who through the regenerating power of baptism have been pleased to confer on us heavenly life, grant we pray that those you render capable of immortality by justifying them may by your guidance attain the fullness of your glory. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God forever and ever.

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Amen.

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A reading from the Acts of the Apostles. Paul left Antioch, taking with him Silas, and went on to Derby and to Lystra, where there was a disciple named Timothy, the son of a Jewish woman who was a believer, but his father was a Greek. He was well spoken of by the believers in Lystra and Iconium. Paul wanted Timothy to accompany him, and he took him and had him circumcised because of the Jews who were in those places, for they all knew that his father was a Greek. And they went from town to town. They delivered to them for observance the decisions that had been reached by the apostles and elders who were in Jerusalem. So the churches were strengthened in the faith and increased in numbers daily. They went through the region of Phrygia and Galatia, having been forbidden by the Holy Spirit to speak the word in Asia. When they had come opposite Mizia, they attempted to go into Bithynia, but the Spirit of Jesus did not allow them. So, passing by Mizia, they went down to Troas. During the night, Paul had a vision. There stood a man of Macedonia pleading with him and saying, Come over to Macedonia and help us. When he had seen the vision, we immediately tried to cross over to Macedonia, being convinced that God had called us to proclaim the good news to them. The word of the Lord.

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Well Christ is seated at the right hand of God.

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A reading from the Holy Gospel according to Saint John. Before the hour had come to depart from this world and go to the Father, Jesus said to the disciples, If the world hates you, be aware that it hated me before it hated you. If you belong to the world, the world would love you as its own. Because you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hates you. Remember the word that I said to you? Servants are not greater than their master. If they persecuted me, they will persecute you. If they kept my word, they will keep yours also. But they will do all these things to you on account of my name, because they do not know him who sent me. The gospel of the Lord. They teased him, they provoked him, they tried to shame him. And almost an echo of what has happened in our century. He was followed about by people who were trying to catch him out in something that he said that they could use to pin against him. They were constantly harassing him in every way they possibly could to bring him down. And finally they harassed him and pushed him so much they made him suffered. And they persecuted him to the point of death. It was so then and it is so now. And he was persecuted, I think, first because he spoke the truth. He said, And here am I, a man who comes to you and speaks the word from God. We can puzzle at the reasons of why that would upset people. Partially, I think it's a spiritual envy when you are in a position of leadership, spiritual or intellectual or cultural, and someone else is able to bring the truth so powerfully, to bring life to people, and they do it better than you do, in a way that's more eloquent and more efficacious. Lots of people get envious and they resent that someone can be so effective and so good. And I think that's an element with people who observed Jesus that they resented that he was so effective in communicating the truth about life and the way of life and what was good and bad. I think they also persecuted him because he spoke the truth without violence. Peter put the sword back in its sheath. That didn't mean that Jesus was passive, not at all. He knew that there was a danger, that his life was threatened, but he had a determination that existed and lasted all the days of his life. Nothing could stop him from his mission. You could intimidate, you could threaten him. He would never respond, as so often you and I do when we get frustrated with anger and violence. He was always peaceful but persistent and determined. And then most beautifully, I think Jesus was persecuted because he blessed those who persecuted him. It becomes later an echo in St. Paul, doesn't it? When St. Paul says when people are your enemies, give them food and drink, it's like pouring uh coals onto a fire. In other words, you're responding to them, not in a destructive way. And Jesus tells you and me, bless those who persecute you. Bless them and don't curse them. And he does that because in a marvelous way, coming from God and being God, he sees in persecutors something of good. He sees in persecutors the possibility to change and be better. Now, all this takes place in the world that Jesus knew. When we read the Gospel of John and we hear Jesus talk about the word world, the world can be something neutral. It's neither good nor bad. Or it can be a world that God created. God's all He made it was good. And it can also be a world that the Second Vatican Council said has cut through with lots of malice and vanity. And the world that Jesus is talking about to his disciples today is that world. A world that has been good but has been corrupted by evil and malice. And the disciples and all of us are subject to that kind of world, and we have to be aware of it and to know it. That doesn't mean we abandon the world or try to escape. It just means that this is an opportunity to make the world better, to see that there's a conversion, not to run away from troubles, not to run away from evil, but to all the things that Jesus did to try to make the world better. He uses the words persecuted me. And you remember in the Beatitudes, Jesus says at the last or in the last judgment, he says, Whoever gives a cup of cold water or food or drink to one of the least of these members of my family does it to me. Well, we can take that and mean to say, whoever is persecuted, whoever member of the human family is persecuted, they're actually persecuting Jesus as well, not only them as individuals, because we're all members of the same family. And that persecution includes all people. You know why people are persecuted today. We can list the categories race, gender, status, economic position, language, creed, culture. All of those are categories that people use to go out and to attack others. And part of it is because they feel that those other categories or those ways of doing are a threat to their status, to their position, to their wealth, to whoever they are, to their identity. And that was in Jesus' time, and it's in our time today. When we see categories like race and creed and gender and ethnic background and religion, Jesus teaches us not to see there a challenge, but the bounty, the diversity of God's creation. I mean, in human terms, he saw that, that the harvest was great. Well, the harvest of life is extraordinarily great. All the different kinds of people were meant to come together and to be together and build up the community. How do we do that and avoid troubles and problems? Here's what Pope Francis says. Whenever any minority is persecuted and marginalized because of religious convictions or ethnic identity, the well-being of society as a whole is endangered, and each one of us must feel affected. So we say to ourselves and to all people: if you're persecuted or you're threatened because of your identity or who you are, you need to know that Jesus is with you. He's close and intimate. You also need to know that he identifies with you, and he doesn't want that to happen to you, and he wants that to be relieved. And he also wants all of us, whoever we are, not to engage in that kind of persecution, but to do all we can in our power and strength to make sure that people aren't persecuted because who they are, because of their race, because of their gender, because of their religion or identity. All of us are God's children, and God wants us all, as much as possible in this earth, to live together in harmony. Please let us join together now and offer our prayers and petitions to the Lord. Through the month of May, our community prays to follow the example of Mary by offering joy, compassion, and mercy, especially to mothers, grandmothers, and all who lovingly serve those in need. We pray to the Lord.

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Lord hear our prayer.

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We take a moment to pray for those who lack adequate food, housing, and shelter, and those with mental health challenges in their families. We pray to the Lord.

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Lord, hear our prayer.

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And we take a moment to pray for our own personal intentions and for the people for whom we love and care for. We pray to the Lord. Lord your prayer. Lord, the bounty of your creation, the goodness of creation, the very diversity of peoples is a sign of your wealth, of your goodness. May we all live together in harmony through Christ our Lord.

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Amen.

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Blessed 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. It will become for us the bread of life.

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Blessed be God forever.

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By the mystery of this water and wine, may we come to share in the divinity of Christ, who humbled himself to share in our humanity. Blessed are you, Lord God of all creation, for through your goodness we have received the wine we offer you, fruit of the vine and work of human hands, it will become our spiritual drink.

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Blessed be God forever.

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Lord God, we ask you to receive us and be pleased with this sacrifice we offer with humble and contrite hearts. Lord, wash away all our iniquities, cleanse us of all our sinfulness. Thanks, honey. Pray, brothers and sisters, that my sacrifice and yours may be acceptable to God, the Almighty Father.

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May the Lord accept the sacrifice of your hands for the praise and glory of his name for our good and good of all his Holy Church.

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Accepting compassion, O Lord, we pray the offerings of your family, that under your protective care they may never lose what they have received, but attain the gifts that are eternal. We ask this through Christ our Lord.

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Amen.

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The Lord be with you.

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Lift up your hearts.

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Let us give thanks to the Lord our God. It is right and just truly right and just our duty in our salvation, at all times to acclaim you, O Lord, but in this time above all to laud 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, and in his rising the life of all has risen.

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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 Holy, holy, holy fall, live, sales, easy comes, and the holiday.

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You are indeed holy, O Lord, the font of all holiness. Make holy, therefore, these gifts we pray by sending down your spirit upon them, like the dew fall, 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, 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, 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. 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 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 bred throughout the world, and bring her to the fullness of charity, together with Leo, our Pope, Francis, our bishop, all the clergy, and all the 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, we pray that with the blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of God, with Blessed Joseph, her 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, all glory and honor is yours forever and ever. Amen. At the Savior's command, informed now 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. 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 coming of our Savior Jesus Christ, for the kingdom, the power, and the glory. 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 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 one another a sign of the peace of Christ.

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Love God, you take away the sins of the world. Love God, you take away the sins of the Lord.

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Behold, the Lamb of God, behold him who takes away the sins of the world. Blessed are those 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 keep us all safe for eternal life.

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My 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.

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Let us pray. Keep us safe, O Lord, we pray. Those whom you have saved by your kindness, that, redeemed by the passion of your Son, they may rejoice in his resurrection, who lives and reigns forever and ever. The Lord be with you.

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And with your spirit.

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May Almighty God bless you, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Let us go in the peace of Christ. Alleluia, alleluia.

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Praise be to God. Hallelujah.

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Our thanks to our donors for the gift of this man.