Daily TV Mass Saturday June 27, 2026

Fr. John O'Brien, S.J.

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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Welcome to the celebration of the Daily TV Mass. I am Father John O'Brien. The televising of this Mass is made possible by the contribution of an anonymous donor from Victoria, British Columbia. This Mass is offered in memory of her husband. May his soul and the souls of the faithful departed rest in peace. Amen. As we celebrate this Mass at the Manraza Jesuit Spiritual Renewal Center, we join our prayers with those who are gathering later today at the Martyrs' Shrine in Midland, Ontario, as together we mark the hundredth anniversary of the opening of that sacred place of pilgrimage. Over these past few days, we have reflected on the lives of the Canadian martyrs, including today St. Noel Chabanel, giving thanks for their faithful witness. The Martyrs' Shrine continues to stand as a living sign of encounter, pilgrimage, and mission in the church in Canada today. Together, let us remember, give thanks, and carry forward the witness of the martyrs in our lives. In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit be with you all.

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And with your spirit.

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Preparing ourselves to celebrate these sacred mysteries, let us call to mind our sins. You were sent to heal the contrite of heart. Lord have mercy.

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Lord have mercy.

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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. And may Almighty God have mercy on us, forgive us our sins, and bring us to everlasting life. Amen. Let us pray. Grant us, O Lord, we pray, that the course of our world may be directed by your peaceful rule, and that your church may rejoice untroubled in her devotion. 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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A reading from the Book of Lamentations. In his wrath he has broken down the strongholds of daughter Judah. He has brought down to the ground in dishonor the kingdom and its rulers. The elders of daughter Zion sit on the ground in silence. They have thrown dust on their heads and put on sackcloth. The young girls of Jerusalem have bowed their heads to the ground. My eyes are spent with weeping. My stomach churns. My bile is poured out on the ground because of the destruction of my people, because infants and babes faint in the streets of the city. They cry to their mothers, Where is bread and wine? As they faint like the wounded in the streets of the city, as their life is poured out on their mother's bosom. What can I say for you? To what compare you, O daughter Jerusalem? To what can I liken you? That I may comfort you, O virgin daughter Zion? For vast as the sea is your ruin, who can heal you? Your prophets have seen for you false and deceptive visions. They have not exposed your iniquity to restore your fortunes, but have seen oracles for you that are false and misleading. Cry aloud to the Lord, O wall of daughter Zion, like tears stream down like a torrent day and night. Give yourself no rest, your eyes no respite. Arise, cry out in the night, at the beginning of the watches. Pour out your heart like water before the presence of the Lord. Lift your hands to him for the lives of your children. The word of the Lord.

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Why does your anger smoke against the ship of your pasture? Remember your congregation which you acquired long ago, which you redeemed to be the tribe of your heritage. Remember Mount Zion where you came to dwell. Lord, forget not the life of your poems. The enemy has destroyed everything in the sanctuary. Your foes have roared within your holy place, they set up their emblems there. In the upper entrance they hacked the wooden trellies with access.

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And Jesus said to him, I will come and cure him. The centurion answered, Lord, I am not worthy to have you come under my roof, but only speak the word, and my servant will be healed. For I also am a man under authority, with soldiers under me. And I say to one, Go and he goes, and to another, come and he comes, and to my slave, do this, and the slave does it. When Jesus heard him he was amazed, and said to those who followed him, Truly I tell you, in no one in Israel have I found such faith. I tell you, many will come from the east and west, and will eat with Abraham and Isaac and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven, while the heirs of the kingdom will be thrown into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. And to the centurion Jesus said, Go, let it be done for you according to your faith. And the servant was healed in that hour. When Jesus entered Peter's house, he saw his mother-in-law lying in bed with a fever. He touched her hand, and the fever left her, and she got up and began to serve him. That evening they brought to Jesus many who were possessed with demons, and he cast out the spirits with a word, and cured all who were sick. This was to fulfill what had been spoken through the prophet Isaiah. He took our infirmities and bore our diseases. The Gospel of the Lord. And we remember it with appreciation because mainly it has been a ministry and a place of healing, a place of reconciliation and of healings. And the many canes and crutches that are there are testaments to the healing power of God that comes down even to our own day. Healings of the mind as well as the spirit, and indeed even at times of our bodies. And we get to witness this every day at Martyr Shrine. And it should be no surprise to us, though, that the Lord comes to us and heals. Healing was his ministry when he was on earth, teaching and healing. And God wants to reconcile and restore us and restore all things to God the Father. This is the primary mission of Jesus Christ in the world today, and therefore it is the primary mission of his followers. Those who follow in the footsteps as his disciples are called primarily to missions in various forms of healing. And so it is that we reflect on the lives of the Canadian martyrs today. They were healers, teachers, and reconcilers. They wanted nothing more than to bring peace and harmony between factions and conflicts, and they wanted to build a community, almost the proto-community of Canada, our country today, where people from various backgrounds of different ethnic backgrounds would live together in peace in what was called a house of prayer and a home of peace. And I'd like to focus on this day on one of them, one of the eight Canadian martyrs. His name was Saint Noel Chabanel. Noë Chabanel had joined the Jesuits in France, had come to the wilderness at the time, and eventually ended up in the missions of Heronia or Wendake at Saint Marie. Now back in France, Noel was very gifted with languages. He was a professor of rhetoric and an esteemed teacher. But when he came to the land of the Hurons, he found he couldn't wrap his mind around their language, despite the other Jesuits, Jean de Brebeuf and other new arrivals, eventually learning to speak the Wendat tongue. But Noel just couldn't do it. And moreover, he struggled to be there. He really struggled to be there in part of the lifestyles and the witness, and being a witness to the customs of the people there, which he found distasteful, almost as if he had an allergic reaction to them. And then he felt ashamed that he was like this. He felt like he was a failed missionary. What did he do? Well, the common sense thing to do would have been: let's reassign him, let's find a different mission, something that would be more appropriate to his dispositions and his talents. But that's not what Saint Noel Chabonel did. He made a vow, a personal vow, to spend the rest of his life, if necessary, there among the Wendot people and among his Jesuit brethren at the missions of St. Marie. And he renewed that vow every morning. And so it was. He spent the rest of his life there, sometimes uncomfortably, often being made fun of for his lack of ability to speak the language. And eventually, after the martyrdoms of his brethren, Jean de Brebeuf and Gabriel Lalamon, after the Jesuits had burned down their mission so it would not fall into the hands of the enemy, and after Father Paul Ragano, the superior of the mission, had recalled everyone to St. Joseph Island, known as Christian Island today, for safety. Noel Chabonel was making his way by canoe when he was murdered by his traveling companion and his body thrown into the river. And his bones were never recovered, but his memory has endured as one of the last of the martyrs to be martyred, and someone for whom we can look as a patron saint, not of the strength and the courage of someone like Jean de Brebeuf, but of a patron saint of human weakness and limitation. Dear brothers and sisters, we have both virtues within us. We are called to greatness, we are called to live courageous lives of witness, but we also know that we have struggles, we have our own weaknesses and limitations. And so we pray to St. Noel Chabanel, one of the great Canadian martyrs and co-patrons of Canada. We pray for the strength that we need, that in our lives we too may be faithful witnesses to Jesus and proclaim him in our strength or in our weakness. And now let us bring our petitions before the Lord. As the church in Canada celebrates the hundredth anniversary of Martyr's Shrine, we pray in thanksgiving for the millions of Canadians who have visited there over the past hundred years and for all the graces, blessings, and healings that have taken place, for all their descendants and for all people today and their families. We pray to the Lord. We pray for those in our daily TV Mass Prayer Intentions book. We pray to the Lord. During this month of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, let us pray for healing in our families, that Christ's mercy may renew our hearts and restore our relationships. We pray to the Lord. Heavenly Father, we lift up these and all the intentions we carry in our hearts, asking that through the powerful intercession of the Canadian martyrs, you will answer them according to your wisdom, your power, and your mercy through Christ our Lord. Pray, brothers and sisters, that my sacrifice and yours may be acceptable to God the Almighty Father. O God, who provide gifts to be offered to your name, and count our ablations as signs of our desire to serve you with devotion. We ask of your mercy that what you grant as the source of merit may also help us to attain merit's reward through Christ our Lord.

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Amen.

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The Lord be with you. And may your 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 and everywhere to give you thanks. Lord Holy Father, Almighty and Eternal God, for just as through your beloved Son you created the human race, so also through him with great goodness you formed it anew. And so it is right that all your creatures serve you, all the redeemed praise you, and all your saints with one heart bless you. Therefore we too extol you with all the angels, as in joyful celebration we acclaim.

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Holy holy holy Lord God of hosts heaven are full of your glory Hosanna in the yest Hosanna in the yest bless you comes in the name of the Lord Hana in the yest O sanion the You are indeed holy, O Lord, the fount of all holiness.

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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 our Lord Jesus Christ. At the time he was betrayed and entered willingly into his passion, he took bread and giving 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 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.

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We proclaim your death, O Lord, until you come.

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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, 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 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.

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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.

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At the Savior's command and formed 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, 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.

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The kingdom, the power, the power, and the glory are yours now and forever.

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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 for ever and ever. Amen. The peace of the Lord be with you always. And with your spirit. Let us offer each other a sign of peace.

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You take away the sins of the world. Have mercy on us you take away the sins of the world. Have mercy on us God you take away the sins of the world crime.

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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 shall be.

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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. Nourished by your saving gifts, we beseech your mercy, Lord, that by this same sacrament with which you feed us in the present age, you may make us partakers of life eternal through Christ our Lord.

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Amen.

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The Lord be with you. May Almighty God bless you, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Go in peace, glorifying the Lord with your lives.

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Our thanks to our donor for the gift of this mass.