Daily TV Mass Saturday July 4, 2026

Fr. Roshan Loy D'Souza, CSC

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'm Father Roshan Lloyd Souza. The televising of this mass is made possible by the contribution from Mia Hegase from New York. This Mass is offered in memory of her brother Sepe and for the intentions of their parents Joe and Chico Ficheray who are celebrating their 41st anniversary this year. May God continue to grant them love, fond memories, and peace. Our thanks to Mia for making it possible for tens of thousands of faithful across Canada, USA, and around the world to share in this celebration. The Teletv Mask community extends our heartfelt prayers to our American brothers and sisters. May this day be filled with gratitude, peace, and the continued blessings of freedom and faith. We wish all our American friends a happy Independence Day. Thank you for your ongoing support of the Daily TV Mass Ministry and for joining us in prayer today. In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, the grace and peace of the Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit be with you all. And with your spirit. Today we honor Saint Elizabeth of Portugal. As we honor Saint Elizabeth, we pray that we too may live saintly lives, praising God in service of our brothers and sisters. To enter into this celebration, let us call to mind our sins and seek God's mercy. I confess to Almighty God and to you, my brothers and sisters, that I have greatly ascended in my thoughts and my words, in what I have done and what I have failed to do through my fault, through my fault, through my most grievous fault. Therefore, I ask Blessed Mary, our 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 to everlasting life. Amen. Lord, have mercy. Christ have mercy. Lord have mercy. Let us pray. O God, author of peace and lover of charity, who adorns Saint Elizabeth of Portugal with a marvelous grace for reconciling those in conflict. Grant, through her intercession, that we may become peacemakers and so be called children of God. Through Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God forever and ever. Amen.

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A reading from the book of the Prophet Amos. Thus says the Lord, on that day I will raise up the booth of David that is fallen, and repair its branches, and raise up its ruins, and rebuild it as in days of old, in order that they may possess the remnant of Edom, and all the nations who are called by my name, says the Lord who does this. The time is surely coming, says the Lord, when the one who ploughs shall overtake the one who reaps, and the treader of grapes, the one who sows the seed, the mountain shall drip sweet wine, and all the hills shall flow with it. I will restore the fortunes of my people Israel, and they shall rebuild the ruined cities and inhabit them. They shall plant vineyards and drink their wine, and they shall make gardens and eat their fruit. I will plant them upon their land, and they shall never again be plucked up out of the land that I have given them, says the Lord your God. The word of the Lord.

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Let me hear what God the Lord will speak, for he will speak peace to his people, to his faithful, to those who turn to him in their hearts. Righteousness and peace will kiss each other. My sheep listen to my voice, says the Lord. I know them and they follow me.

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The disciples of John the Baptist came to Jesus, saying, Why do we and the Pharisees fast often, but your disciples do not fast? And Jesus said to them, The wedding guests cannot mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them, can they? The days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast. No one sews a piece of unshrunken cloth on an old clock, for the patch pulls away from the clock, and a worse tear is made. Neither is now new wine put into old wineskins, otherwise the skins burst, and the wine is spilled, and the skins are destroyed, but new wine is put into fresh wineskins, and so both are preserved. The Gospel of the Lord. Many thought it would be easier to demolish the church and build a new one elsewhere. But an elderly parishioner who had been baptized there stood up during a meeting and said, This church carries our tears, our prayers, and our hope. Don't replace it, but restore it. Moved by her words, the community came together. It took months of hard work, clearing, cleaning, repairing, rebuilding, but slowly the church came back to life. When it was finally repaired, it wasn't just a restored building, it was a renewed community. The people had not only rebuilt walls, they had rediscovered faith, unity, and hope. Today's readings speak powerfully about restoration and renewal. In the first reading from the prophet Amos, God promises to rebuild what has been ruined. I will raise up the fallen heart of David. I will repair its branches and restore its ruins. This is not just about physical rebuilding, it is about spiritual renewal. God is telling his people that no matter how broken things seem, he has the power to restore, to heal, and to bless abundantly. This promise is fulfilled more deeply in the gospel. Jesus speaks about new wine and new wineskins. He says, No one pours new wine into old wineskins. New wine is poured into fresh wineskins. What does this mean? Jesus is introducing something radically new, a new covenant, a new way of relating to God, rooted in grace, mercy, and love. The old ways, rigid, external, and sometimes lifeless, cannot contain the new life He brings. Just as new wine needs fresh wineskins, the life of Christ requires hearts that are open, flexible, and ready to change. The disciples of John the Baptist were confused. They were used to fasting and strict practices, and they wondered why Jesus' disciples did not follow the same pattern. But Jesus gently reminds them, when the bridegroom is present, it is a time of joy. His presence changes everything. This is where both readings come together beautifully. God promises restoration through Amos, and in Jesus that promise becomes a living reality. But there is a condition. We must be willing to become new wineskins. We must allow God to renew us from within. Sometimes, like that damaged church, our lives feel broken. We carry wounds, failures, disappointments, sins, regrets. At times we may even feel that it is easier to give up or start over elsewhere. But God does not discard us. He restores us, he rebuilds us. He sees not just what we are, but what we can become. However, restoration requires openness. If we cling to old habits, old grudges, old ways of thinking, we become like old wineskins, unable to hold the new life God wants to pour into us. Jesus invites us to let go, to be renewed, to embrace his grace. My brothers and sisters, today we are called to trust in God's promise of restoration and to open our hearts to his new life. Let me conclude with a few life lessons. First, God never gives up on us. No matter how broken our lives may seem, he is always ready to rebuild and restore. Second, renewal requires openness. We must be willing to change, to let go of what is old, and allow God to make us new. Third, Christ brings joy, not just obligation. Our faith is not merely about rules, but about a relationship with the living Lord. Finally, we are called to be instruments of restoration. Just as that community rebuild their church together, we are invited to help rebuild lives with kindness, forgiveness, and love. May we become new wineskins, ready to receive the new wine of God's grace, and may our lives reflect his restoring love to the world. Amen. Let us bring our prayers to our loving God. Let us pray for the church that we may use our blessings to unite the people and bring love in our community. We pray to the Lord. Let us pray for the world and its leaders that they may work for unity and peace. We pray to the Lord. For all those in our daily TV Mas Prayer Intentions book, we pray to the Lord. As a community prayer, let us give thanks for grandparents and elders like Saints Joachim and Anne, who nurture faith and family across generations with quiet strength. We pray to the Lord. We make these prayers through Christ our Lord. Amen. 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. Blessed be God forever. Blessed are you, Lord God of all creation. For through your goodness we have received the wine we offer you. Fruit of the wine and work of human hands, it will become our spiritual drink. Blessed be God forever. May the Lord accept the sacrifice at our hands for the praise and glory of his name, for our good and good of all his holy church. Receive, O Lord, the offerings of your people, and grant that we who celebrate your son's work of boundless charity may by the example of Blessed Elizabeth be confirmed in love of you and of our neighbor through Christ our Lord. The Lord be with you.

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And with your spirit.

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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 you are praised in the company of your saints, and in crowning their merits, you crown your own gifts. By their way of life, you offer us an example. By communion with them, you give us companionship. By their intercession show us support, so that, encouraged by so great a cloud of witnesses, we may run as victors in the run before us and win with them the imperishable crown of glory through Christ our Lord. And so with the angels and archangels, and with the great multitude of the saints, we sing the hymn of your praise as without end we acclaim.

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Holy, holy holy God of host heaven and Father of your glory, Hosanna in the highest. The sun is here comes in the name of the Lord, Osanna and the highest Osanna in Hast.

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You are indeed holy, O Lord, and all you have created rightly gives you 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 our people to yourself, so that from the rising of the Son to His setting, our 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 set 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 the 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 a 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. Therefore, 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 recognize. 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 the Blessed Joseph, her spouse, with your blessed apostles and glorious martyrs, with Saint Elizabeth of Portugal, and with all the saints, on whose constant 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 on earth, with your servant Leo, our Pope, Francis, our bishop, the Order of Bishops, and 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 compassion, O 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 their 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. Through him and with him any 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, 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 Saviour, Jesus Christ. For the kingdom, the power, and the glory are yours now and forever. Lord Jesus Christ, who set 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. Let us offer one another the sign of peace.

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You take away the sins of the world. Grant us peace.

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Blessed are those called to the supper of the Lamb. Lord, I'm not worthy that you should enter under my roof. Only say the word, and my soul shall be healed with the body of the flesh.

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Please join me now in this act of spiritual communion. 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. Grant we pray, O Lord, that we who are renewed by these sacred mysteries may follow the example of Saint Elizabeth of Portugal, who honored you with tireless devotion and may by surpassing charity was of service to your people through Christ our Lord. The Lord be with you. And with your spirit. May Almighty God bless you, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. The Mass is ended. Let us go in the love of Christ. Thanks be to God.

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

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We gather reach of love. We gather Jesus Christ.