Daily TV Mass
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Daily TV Mass
Daily TV Mass Thursday July 30, 2026
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Msgr. Robert Nusca
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_00Welcome to the celebration of the Daily TV Mass. I'm Monsignor Robert Nuska. The televising of this Mass is made possible by the contributions from three donors. The first are Maria Noel and Daveren McDonough from Hamilton, Ontario, in memory of their beloved mother Mary Maureen, who passed away on February 13th, 2024. Their father Joseph, who passed away on July 30th, 2005, and for the family's intentions. For the living and deceased members of the McDonough, Devorne, Deveren, and Canning families, their friends and those who have no one to pray for them. Also, thanksgiving for blessings received and for the daily TV Mass celebrants and staff. Mary was a regular participant of the TV Mass for many years, and it was particularly important to her when she was no longer able to attend Mass at St. Catherine of Siena Parish in Hamilton. The second is Carol and family from Ontario for the repose of the soul of Angelo Del Zotto for peace in the world and in thanksgiving for all who make the daily TV Mass possible. The third is the DaCosta family from Willowdale, Ontario, in memory of Marie de Costa on the second anniversary of her death today. Eternal rest, grant unto her, O Lord, and let your perpetual light shine upon her. May she rest in peace. May the Lord comfort the family in their grief and bring them together again in your heavenly kingdom. 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, 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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SPEAKER_00Brothers and sisters, let us now acknowledge our sins and so prepare ourselves to celebrate these sacred mysteries. You were sent to heal the contrite 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. Lord have mercy. May Almighty God have mercy on us, forgive us our sins and bring us to everlasting life.
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SPEAKER_00Let us pray. O God, who made the bishop St. Peter Chrysologus an outstanding preacher of your incarnate word, grant through his intercession that we may constantly ponder in our hearts the mysteries of your salvation and faithfully express them in what we do. For our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God forever and ever. Amen.
SPEAKER_01A reading from the book of the Prophet Jeremiah. The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord, come, go down to the potter's house, and there I will let you hear my words. So I went down to the potter's house, and there he was working at his wheel. The vessel he was making of clay was spoiled in the potter's hand, and he reworked it in another vessel, as seemed good to him. Then the word of the Lord came to him. Can I not do with you, O house of Israel, just as this potter has done, says the Lord, just like the clay in the potter's hand, so are you in my hand, O house of Israel. The word of the Lord thanks be to God.
SPEAKER_03Blessed are they whose humans are God of Jacob. Oh my soul. I will praise the Lord as long as I live. I will sing phrases to my God, all my life. In mortals, in whom there is no heart For their birthday parts, they return to the earth on that very day their plans per they hose the God of Jelhes of the Lord to listen to the words of your sons.
SPEAKER_00The Lord be with you. And with your spirit. Jesus said to the crowds, The kingdom of heaven is like a net that was thrown into the sea, caught fish of every kind. When it was full, they drew it ashore, sat down, and put the good into baskets, but threw out the bad. So it will be at the end of the age. The angels will come out and separate the evil from the righteous and throw them into the furnace of fire, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. Have you understood all this? They answered, Yes. And Jesus said, Jesus said to them, Therefore, every scribe who has been trained for the kingdom of heaven is like the master of a household who brings out of his treasure what is new and what is old. The gospel of the Lord. In today's gospel, once again, we find our Lord teaching in parables, and he speaks of the fishing net that's cast into the sea, of the angels that separate the good fish from the bad at the end of the age. But then turning to his disciples, then he instructs them concerning the wisdom needed to preach the gospel in a powerful way. And I think that several things emerge for our reflection. Throughout these parables, Jesus uses a simple language, the language, the imagery drawn from, can we say, the everyday life of his original audience. He speaks of fishing nets, of weeds and wheat, of planting seeds and gathering harvests. And in these parables or teaching stories, Jesus offers instruction concerning the mystery of the kingdom of God, while emphasizing at the same time the importance of preparing faithfully to be found worthy to enter into the joys of everlasting life. And if we study the parables, we see that they speak to us of a loving, of a merciful God, a great rejoicing in heaven over the one sinner who repents. They teach us of the importance of prayer. They invite us to show kindness and love toward others, including our enemies. At the same time, they warn against hypocrisy. They speak to us of the reality of final judgment, as we see in today's gospel. What's important to appreciate, I think, is that beneath the simple language of these parables, Jesus offers a profound and compelling vision of God's transforming power at the very heart of our everyday life and experience. In the world of the parables, God is very near to us. And it is this vision of God's presence at work in the processes of everyday life through the power of the Holy Spirit that in many ways I think gives the parables their universal appeal. But today in our post-modern, post-truth, what some refer to as a post-human world, when global elites speak of Jesus Christ as fake news, so often the message of the kingdom seems inaudible over the relentless roar of the world. So often it may seem that the church is losing ground, that the soil is barren, that the field is no longer capable of producing the yield that it once did, that the pearl of great price has lost its value, or that the treasure hidden in the field is now forever lost. So we're led to ask, what is the Lord calling us to do in this era of the new evangelization, so that the gospel might continue to grow, indeed to yield a super abundant harvest? The parables extend to us an invitation to live the gospel with a joyful, even bold confidence in God's own plans for us, both individually and collectively. Far from fake news, and Jesus teaches us that from seemingly inauspicious beginnings, God Himself will bring forth his everlasting kingdom of heaven. As I've said on other occasions, the parables express not only that the kingdom of God is already in the process of arriving, but that nothing can stop the arrival of the kingdom. So it is that the Lord challenges us today to respond generously to the call to cultivate those spiritual conditions of prayer within ourselves that are most conducive to the flowering of the kingdom. The Lord is calling us to strive to live a life of holiness, always in imitation of the lives of the saints. At the same time, today's gospel contains, I think, an important message about final judgment, as we see in the parable of the fishing net. Here, Saint Gregory the Great compares the net to the church, because it draws people upward from the turbulent waters of the present age to the everlasting life of heaven. Here, Saint Hilary of Poitiers answers that this net lifts us up out of this passing world and raises us into the light of the true sun. Same time, again, our Lord is emphasizing the reality of final judgment and the great importance of seeking forgiveness now for our sins as he describes what will happen at the end of at the end of the age. And on our journey of faith, we're called to strive to balance our efforts to grow in the interior life with the exterior works of kindness and charity toward others. Particularly, I think, in our own time, we're called to show God's own love, God's mercy toward the growing numbers of people in our society experiencing food insecurity, those who are lonely, for the lost, the abandoned living on our streets, for those many people who are experiencing a sense of sadness and even despair in our own time. So many people, I think particularly among our young, are expressing great concern, indeed, anxiety about the future. Here with the advent of artificial intelligence, what will be the long-term impact upon the job market and job security? Many express concern over whether they will ever be able to afford a home, about the world economy. They're concerned about the environment. So the parables call us as a people of faith to strive to be living signs of hope to others in these challenging times, and to be indeed to be a bright light, shining in the darkness of the times in which we live, by both our encouraging words and our charitable actions. And as Jesus concludes today's gospel, he turns to his disciples now, calling forth in them wisdom, like the scribe trained for the kingdom of heaven and the master of the household. Indeed, now, as much as ever, there's a great need for effective preachers of the word, who are both able to draw out from our rich tradition the eternal spiritual treasures of our faith, but to do so in a way that's very inspiring and is relevant in our time and is able to win others to the gospel. So the need to pray, to pray for vocations. Vocations to the priesthood, the religious life, the Lord Himself, as it says a bit earlier on in Matthew's Gospel, the harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few. Therefore pray earnestly that the Lord of the harvest will send out laborers into his harvest. At the same time, there are also growing signs of hope. Sociological studies speak about the increased number of our young people who are turning to the faith as they seek a greater sense of spirituality within a community of like-minded people, again in our increasingly unstable world. Finally, today the church remembers St. Peter Chrysologus, the from the Greek term golden-worded, the 5th century Archbishop of Ravenna in Italy, renowned for his short but very rich and inspiring homilies. In his homily on the incarnation, which is taken from today's office of readings in the Liturgy of the Hours, he says that God has made you in his own image, that you might, in your person, make the invisible creator present on earth. Christ is born, that by his birth he might restore our nature, and the creature that God had formed of the earth, he now makes heavenly. What he had endowed with a human soul, he now vivifies to become a heavenly spirit. In this way, he fully raises humanity up to God and leaves us neither in sin nor death nor travail, nor pain, nor anything earthly with the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ. So as we continue to celebrate this Mass, let us pray for the intercession of St. Peter Chrysologus, that we may respond fully to God's call to live the gospel in all of its depths. Let us pray for an increase in vocations to the priesthood and religious life, for great preachers of the gospel, blessed with the grace to bring forth from the storehouse of our tradition riches, both ancient and new. Let us pray for the grace to help others to retain above all the knowledge that we are spiritual beings, created in the image and likeness of God, not as some would say, hackable animals to be controlled by nanotechnology. For as the lives of the saints show us, we've been created for great, indeed glorious things, both in this world and in the world to come. Let us now make our prayers and petitions to God in heaven, asking Him to hear and to answer the prayers of all who call upon Jesus' name. Let us pray for peace in the world and an end to all violence. We pray to the Lord. Lord, hear our prayer. For those in our daily TV Mass Prayer Intentions book, we pray to the Lord.
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SPEAKER_00As a community of prayer, let us give thanks for grandparents and elders like St. Joachim and Anne, who nurture faith and family across generations with quiet strength. We pray to the Lord.
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SPEAKER_00And for all those intentions we remember now in the silence of our own hearts. For these intentions we pray to the Lord. Heavenly Father, you know the needs of your people in this passing life. We ask you to hear the prayers we've made and those that remain deep within our hearts, for we make them all through Christ our Lord. Blessed are you, Lord, God of all creation, for through your goodness we receive the bread we offer you, the fruit of the earth, and the work of human hands will become for us the bread of life. Blessed are you, Lord, God of all creation, for with your goodness we receive the wine we offer you, fruit of the vine and work of human hands will become our spiritual drink. Blessed be God for our time. Pray, brothers and sisters, that my sacrifice and yours may be acceptable to God the Almighty Father.
SPEAKER_02May the Lord accept the sacrifice at your hands for the praise and glory of his name, for our good and the good of all his holy church.
SPEAKER_00Look with favor, O Lord, we pray upon the offerings that we set upon this sacred altar on the feast day of St. Peter Chrysologus, that bestowing upon us your pardon, our oblations may give honor to your name. We ask this through Christ our Lord. Amen. The Lord be with you. 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, through Christ our Lord. For on this festival of St. Peter Chrysologus, you bid your church to rejoice. So too you strengthen her by the example of his holy life, teach her by his words of preaching, and keep her safe in answer to his prayers. Now, in the company of the angels, the archangels, and all the saints, we sing the hymn of your praise, as without end we acclaim.
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SPEAKER_00Therefore, 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, said 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 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 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_03When we eat this bread and drink this cup, we proclaim your death, O Lord, until you come again.
SPEAKER_00Therefore, 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. Church, and recognizing the sacrificial victim by whose death you willed to 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, that we may obtain an inheritance with your elect, especially with the most blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of God, with Blessed Joseph her spouse, the blessed apostles, the glorious martyrs, St. Peter Chrysologus, and with all the saints, on whose constant intercession in your presence we rely for unfailing help. May the 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, all the clergy, and the entire people you have gained for your own. Listen graciously to the prayers of this family whom you've 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 were 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 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 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, O 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. 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 her peace and unity in accordance with your will, who live and reign forever and ever. The peace of the Lord be with you always. And with your spirit.
SPEAKER_02Since 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_00Refreshed by heavenly food, we humbly implore you, O Lord, that attentive to the teachings of St. Peter Chrysologus, we may abide at all times in thanksgiving for the gifts we have received through Christ our Lord. The Lord be with you. And with your spirit. May Almighty God bless you, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Go forth, the Mass is ended.
SPEAKER_01Our thanks to our donors for the gift of this Mass.