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Daily TV Mass
Daily TV Mass Wednesday May 20, 2026
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Fr. Prakash Anthony Lohale, 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'm Father Prakash Anthony Lohale. The televising of this Mass is made possible by the contribution from two donors. The first is an anonymous donor from Mississauga, Ontario, in thanksgiving for blessings received, for their personal intentions, for healing, wholeness, and for grace, strength and courage to deal with all life's obstacles. The second is offered to the kindness of Claude Andrew D'Souza, Estate Legacy Fund, for the repose of his soul and the souls in purgatory, for God's blessing, for the daily TV Mass, and for world 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 Lord be with you and with your spirit. Today we celebrate the feast of Saint Bernadine of Siena. He was well known for his preaching, but he is more known because of his devotion to the holy name of Jesus. You see this insignia on my chasubel, the IHS. It was his design. It is the first three letters of the Greek alphabet, which means Jesus. And he designed this and put it in the form of a blazing sun, and that's why it has become very famous. Saint Bernardine preached wherever there was strife, wherever there was faction, and he tried to call people to know the truth. So also in our first readings, Saint Paul speaking to the elders at Militus, is trying to protect people who are not swayed away by untruth. And so does Jesus in the gospel protect us from untruth, from being unswayed by false. And so let us pray for unity, to keep our faith and to keep us in truth. With these thoughts, let us call to mind our sins and ask the Lord to forgive us. You ascend to heal the contrite, Lord have mercy.
SPEAKER_08Lord have mercy.
SPEAKER_01You plead for the sinners, Christ have mercy. You intercede for us at the right hand of the Father, Lord have mercy.
SPEAKER_08Lord have mercy.
SPEAKER_01May Almighty God have mercy on us, forgive us our sins, and bring us to everlasting life. Amen. Let us pray. O God, who gave the priest Saint Bernardine of Siena a great love for the holy name of Jesus. Grant through his merits and prayers that we may ever be set aflame with the Spirit of your love. 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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SPEAKER_00A reading from the Acts of the Apostles. At Ephesus, Paul sent for the elders, and when they came to him, he made his farewell. Keep watch over yourselves and over all the flock, of which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the Church of God that he obtained with the blood of his own son. I know that after I have gone, savage wolves will come in among you, not sparing the flock. Some even from your own group will come distorting the truth in order to entice the disciples to follow them. Therefore, be alert, remembering that for three years I did not cease, night or day, to warn everyone with tears. And now I commend you to God and to the message of his grace, a message that is able to build you up and to give you the inheritance among all who are sanctified. I coveted no one's silver or gold or clothing. You know for yourselves that I worked with my own hands to support myself and my companions. In all this I have given you an example, that by such work we must support the weak, remembering the words of the Lord Jesus, for he himself said, It is more blessed to give than to receive. When he had finished speaking, he knelt down with them and all and he knelt down with them all and prayed. There was much weeping among them all. They embraced Paul and kissed him, grieving especially because of what he had said, that they would not see him again. Then they brought him to the ship. The word of the Lord.
SPEAKER_03Kings make gifts to you. Sing to God, O kingdoms of the earth. Sing praises to the Lord O Rider in the heavens, the ancient heavens. Listen, he sends out his voice, his mighty voice. Sing to God, O kingdoms of the earth. Awesome is God in his sanctuary, the God of Israel. He gives power and strength to his people. Blessed be God. Sing to God, O kingdoms of the ears, Lord is truth make us holy in the truth. Alleluia Alluya.
SPEAKER_01A reading from the Holy Gospel according to John.
SPEAKER_07Glory to you, O Lord.
SPEAKER_01When the hour had come for him to pass from this world to the Father, Jesus looked up to heaven and said, Now I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, protect them in your name that you have given me, so that they may be one as we are one. While I was with them, I protected them in your name that you have given me. I guarded them, and not one of them was lost, except the one destined to be lost, so that the scripture might be fulfilled. But now I am coming to you, and I speak these things in the world so that they may have my joy made complete in themselves. I have given them your word, and the world has hated them because they do not belong to the world, just as I do not belong to the world. I am not asking you to take them out of the world, but I ask you to protect them from the evil one. They do not belong to the world, just as I do not belong to the world. Sanctify them in the truth, and your word is truth. As you have sent me into the world, so I have sent them into the world, and for their sake I sanctify myself, so that they also may be sanctified in truth. The gospel of the Lord. He was gripped by an unusual impulse, a strong impression to pray for the newly elected Pope Francis. Not being a Roman Catholic, he was further surprised by a deep sense that he was going to personally meet him. And as he prayed, he was taken back to in memory as a young campus minister, where he saw different Christian denominations and organizations displacing their ministries on separate tables. And he felt that the Holy Spirit was telling him, was speaking to his heart, don't set up another table. I have one church, one bride. And by morning he told his wife, I believe we need to serve out our days working for Christian unity. That pastor, my dear friends, was Joe Toscini. And what began as a prayer in the middle of the night became the John 17 movement. A community of Catholics and Protestants, bishops and pastors gathered around the table where they were listening, praying, and loving each other the way Jesus commanded that we may be one. And in John 17, movement takes its name from the gospel we just heard today. Jesus, in his final hours before the cross, he lifts his eyes towards heaven and prays for us. And at the heart of that prayer is one word, keep. Holy Father, keep them in your name. I like the word keep, though even some translations use protect. Holy Father, protect them in your name. What are we being asked to keep? Keep the faith. Before Jesus speaks, John tells us he looked up into heaven, weighed down by anguish, knowing that he was going to be betrayed and face the cross until death. He did not look into the darkness, he looked up. And that is the first invitation, my dear brothers and sisters. Keep the faith by keeping your gaze lifted up. Not because life is easy, but because our faith gives us a direction. A daily choice to turn toward God even when we feel distant, even when grief is heavy. Prayer, my dear friends, is not an escape from our problems. It is what keeps love and hope alive. Keep the faith. Keep looking up. Notice that Jesus does not command unity. He prays for it because he knew we could never achieve it alone. He had watched his disciples argue about who was the greatest. He knew the seed of division in every human heart. Pope Francis puts it plainly. He says that division is from the devil. He is the great divider who magnifies our faults, who fractures our families, who destroys our communities and even our churches. But it is the Holy Spirit that always moves us towards unity, brings us towards union, to sharing the table, the honest conversations we have, and to discover that across all our differences, we are all children of the same Father. Joe Tosini glimpsed something through that night. And here is the urgency, Jesus tells us plainly, that they may be one, so that the world might believe. The world, my dear friends, will not be one by our arguments. It will be moved by our love. So pray for unity. Build it one table at a time, one encounter at a time. Finally, Jesus prays, sanctify them in the truth. This does not mean guarding documents like a sentry at a locked door. But in John's Gospel we are told that truth is not a proposition, it is a person. Truth is Christ Himself, the full revelation of the Father's love. My dear brothers and sisters, Jesus is still praying this prayer. Right now, he stands before the Father, interceding for each one of us. We are not on our own, we never work. So let us answer his prayer with ours. Faith when the night is dark, unity built one encounter at a time, truth lived with courage and with love. What began as a prayer in the night at the table of friendship in New York at three in the morning touched the Vatican and changed the lives of so many around the world. Imagine what God could do with your prayer today. And no wonder Tennyson rightly said that more things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of. We pray to the Lord. Throughout this 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. For the children of the world, may they be protected from hunger, abuse, illiteracy, disease, neglect and violence, and allowed to enjoy light-hearted and carefree childhoods, gently modeled by God's law and loving discipline. Let us pray to the Lord. Lord your prayer. God of heaven and earth, you reward those with clean hands and pure hearts. In our unworthiness, we bring our prayers to you through Christ our Lord. Your goodness we have this bread to offer, which earth has given and human hands have made. It will become for us the bread of life. Blessed are you, Lord God of all creation. Your goodness we have received this wine we offer, fruit of the wine and work of human hands, it will become our spiritual drink. Sanctify our offerings by your blessing, O Lord, we pray, and by your grace may we be set afire with that flame of your love through which Saint Bernadine overcame every bodily torment through Christ our Lord.
SPEAKER_08Amen.
SPEAKER_01The Lord be with you and with your spirit. Lift up your hearts. Let us give thanks to the Lord our God. It is truly right and just our duty and our salvation, always in every way to give you thanks, Lord Holy Father, Almighty and Eternal God, through Christ our Lord. For as on this festival of St. Benadine, you bid your church rejoice, so too you strengthen her by the example of his holy life. Teach us by his words of preaching and keep us safe in answer to his prayers. And so with the company of angels and saints, we sing the hymn of praise as without end we acclaim.
SPEAKER_03Holy, holy, holy Lord God of host of your glory, Osana in the highest. Blessed 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 we pray, by sending down your spirit upon them like the dew fall, 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 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, 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.
SPEAKER_03Proclaim your death of Lord and provide your resurrection until you come again.
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, 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 Blessed Joseph, her spouse, with the blessed apostles, with Saint Bernadine and all the saints who have pleased you throughout the ages, we may merit to be coerced 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 for ever and ever.
SPEAKER_04Amen.
SPEAKER_01At the Savior's command and formed by divine teaching, we dare to say, O 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 to stay our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses. As we live and 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 of mind and body, as we await the blessed hope and the coming of our Savior Jesus Christ. 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. The peace of the Lord be with you always.
SPEAKER_08And with your spirit.
SPEAKER_01Let us offer each other a sign of peace.
SPEAKER_03Love God, you take away the sins of the world. Grant us peace.
SPEAKER_01Blessed are those who are called to 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_01By the power of this mystery, O Lord, confirm your servants in true faith, that they may everywhere profess in word and deed the faith for which Blessed Bernardine never ceased to labor, and for which he spent his whole life through Christ our Lord. Amen. The Lord be with you.
SPEAKER_08And with your spirit.
SPEAKER_01And may Almighty God bless each one of us, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Amen. Our masters ended. Go and announce the good news by your life. Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_07Thanks.
SPEAKER_02Our thanks to our donors for the gift of this month.