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Daily TV Mass
Daily TV Mass Friday August 21, 2026
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Fr. Michael Coutts, S.J.
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_02In 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 the Father, the friendship of the Holy Spirit be with you all. And with your spirit. Welcome to the celebration of the Daily TV Mass. I'm Father Michael Coots. The televising of this Mass is made possible by a contribution from three donors. The first is a donor from Charlton, Ontario, for his brothers and sisters and their family and for world peace. The second is the Holy Spirit Parish from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, who for the for the intentions of their parishioners, especially those who are homebound. The third is an anonymous donor from Rocky View, Alberta, for the repose of the soul of her husband Jack, who would have celebrated his 89th birthday today. In thanksgiving for the Daily TV Mass, which has been a source of comfort and joy to her for many years. May she continue to be blessed through her faithful participation in this Mass. Our thanks to the donors for the gift of this Mass. Today we celebrate the feast of St. Pius X, who was a Pope from 1903 to 1914, just before the Second World War, came from a poor family and always remembered that, even through his papacy. May he intercede for us before the throne of God. You were sent to heal the contrite, 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 us, forgive us our sins, and bring us to everlasting life. Amen. O God, who, to safeguard the Catholic faith and to restore all things in Christ, filled Pope Saint Pius X with great with heavenly wisdom and apostolic fortitude, graciously grant that following his teaching and example we may attain eternal an eternal prize through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, forever and ever.
SPEAKER_07Amen.
SPEAKER_00Our reading from the book of the Prophet Ezekiel. The hand of the Lord came upon me, and he brought me out by the Spirit of the Lord and set me down in the middle of a valley. It was full of bones. He led me all around them. There were very many lying in the valley, and they were very dry. He said to me, Mortal, can these bones live? I answered, O Lord God, you know. Then he said to me, Prophesy to these bones and say to them, O dry bones, hear the word of the Lord. Thus says the Lord God to these bones, I will cause breath to enter you, and you shall live. I will lay sinews on you, and will cause flesh to come upon you, and cover you with a skin, and put breath in you, and you shall live, and you shall know that I am the Lord. So I prophesied as I had been commanded. And as I prophesied, suddenly there was a noise, a rattling, and the bones came together, bone to its bone. I looked, and there were sinews on them, and flesh had come upon them, and skin had covered them, but there was no breath in them. Then he said to me, Prophesy to the breath, Prophesy, mortal, and say to the breath, Thus says the Lord God, Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain that they may live. I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood on their feet, a vast multitude. Then he said to me, Mortal, these bones are the whole house of Israel. They say, Our bones are dried up, and our hope is lost, we are cut off completely. Therefore prophesy and say to them, Thus says the Lord God, I am going to open your graves and bring you up from your graves, O my people, and I will bring you back to the land of Israel. And you shall know that I am the Lord when I open your graves and bring you up from your graves, O my people. I will put my spirit within you, and you shall live, and I will place you on your own soil. Then you shall know that I, the Lord, have spoken and will act, says the Lord. The word of the Lord.
SPEAKER_04God's love is everlasting. Oh give thanks to the Lord, for he is God, for his steadfast love endures forever. Let the redeemed of the Lord say those he redeemed from trouble. Give thanks to the Lord. God's love is everlasting. Some wandered in desert wastes, finding no way to an inhabited town, hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted within. Give thanks to the Lord, God's love is everluya, hallelujah, hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah. Teach me your path, my God, and lead me in your truth. Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_02The Lord be with you, and with your spirit. A reading from the Holy Gospel according to Matthew. When the Pharisees heard that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together, and one of them, a lawyer, asked him a question Teacher, which commandment in the law is the greatest? And Jesus said to him, You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the greatest commandment. And the second is like it, you shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets. The gospel of the Lord. I could imagine the foot bone connected to the ankle bone, connected to the shin bone, connected to the thigh bone. And then as I grew older, I said, this would make a fantastic horror movie, you know, like Freddie Krueger or Friday the 13th. But Ezekiel 37 has become very famous thanks to the Delta Rhythm gang. In 1950, they sang the song Dry Bones, which they named Dem Bones. It was the story of trying to make people realize that God took care of them. But coming to Ezekiel itself, in the time of Ezekiel, there was no intimation of immortality. They had no sense of a resurrection or life after death. We who have grown up in the New Testament and after the resurrection of Jesus Christ find it very easy to believe in the resurrection, so much so that we often take it for granted. We say it in the creed, and sometimes we don't even pay attention to it. I believe in the resurrection of the body and life everlasting. We say it and we move on to the next creed, next portion of the creed, and carry on until we reach the Amen. But in the time of Ezekiel, this was the first sign there would be life after death. But it was not in the way that you and I understand it in the New Testament times. For them, it was the same life that they had before they died, without the wrinkles, without the warts, without the headaches, without arthritis and thrombosis. They were just human beings once again ready to carry on the mandate and the army of the Lord against the enemies. But this Ezekiel 37 was also a metaphor. It was a metaphor for Israel. Israel had turned away from the Lord, the God who made a covenant with them, a God who gave them the Torah, a God who told them that they were his chosen people, and they used circumcision as a ritual to express that. This was the time when the Israelit abandoned the Lord and took on the idols of the Gentiles. And so when they were taken into captivity in Babylon in 586 before Christ, it was not surprising. They said, we are getting what we deserve. And there on the banks of the river Tigris, the banks of the river Euphrates, actually, Babylon is southwest of the city of Baghdad, even till today. And people still live. I remember in 2004 when I was preaching on this very theme, I said, I do not know whether that Nineveh still exists. And I got a letter from somebody who says, I am from Nineveh, I am settled in Toronto, it still is alive, and there are Christians there. Please pray for them. So Nineveh and Baghdad still exist today with Christians that we need to pray for. They were the people, just like the people of Israel, who sang on the rivers of Babylon, we put our harps on the willow trees, and we could not sing the songs of the Lord. If I should ever forget you, Jerusalem, may my hand wither, may my tongue cleave to my roof. But God never abandoned them. And so Ezekiel ends this long narrative with saying, God will revive Israel. And God will revive Israel because of a remnant of people that were in Babylon. Even in captivity, they decided we are going to be faithful to the Lord. We will circumcise our children, we will teach them the Torah, and every day we will repeat the Shema. To realize that God, as Jesus says in the gospel, has to be loved with all our mind, with all our heart, with our whole being, and can never be taken away from our everyday life. It is so sad that as we come to 2026, we seem to forget all these things. There was one person who did not forget all through his life, and that is Pope Pius X, whose feast we celebrate today. He was born Giuseppe Sarto. He came from a poor family. And even as a Pope, he never once forgot that he had come from the Pope, from a poor family. He had around his chest the usual papal cross, but it was made out of metal. And the cardinals and the others protested, you know, the Pope, you should have that cross made out of either silver or gold. And he says, I came from a poor family. It will be a metal cross. It would wait a whole century later, in 2013, for another pope, Pope Francis, who would also have a metal cross, not a gold or silver cross. Pope Pius X had his motto of papacy to restore all things in Christ. He was deeply devoted to the Eucharist. And in those days, they did not travel like the Pope travels today in a bulletproof car. They mingled with the crowds. And one of the ladies came up to him. A mother came and he said, My son is only seven years old, and he wants to make his first communion. And the Pope looked at the boy and he says, When you receive communion, who do you receive? And he says, Jesus Christ. And the Pope said, Let him receive communion. He has a whole life ahead of him in order to understand this great mystery. Pope Pius X gave us an example of how to love one another with our whole mind, our whole heart, and our whole being. God bless you all. Join me now as we pray together. For all those in our daily TV Mass Prayer Intention book, we pray to the Lord. Lord give our prayer. During this month of August, we pray that Mary's assumption will renew the hope that one day we will share eternal life with her and her son. We pray to the Lord. For Pope Leo's intention for the month of August, let us pray in large cities. Often marked with anonymity and loneliness, we find new ways to proclaim the gospel. We pray to the Lord. For our sponsors from Carlton, Ontario, from the parish of Holy Spirit in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, and for Rockier View in Alberta. For these sponsors, we pray to the Lord. For the golden warmth of the summer sun and for the long bright days that have just begun, for the beauty of nature and laughter we share, we offer our thanks for your love and care. We make this prayer through Christ our Lord. Amen. Blessed are you, Lord, God of all creation, for through your goodness we have this bread we offer you. Fruit of the earth and work of human hands, it will become for us the bread of life.
SPEAKER_09Blessed be God forever.
SPEAKER_02Through the mystery of this wine and water, 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 this wine we offer you. Through to the wine and work of human hands, it will become for us our spiritual drink. Lord God, be pleased to accept these gifts that we offer to you with humble and with contrite hearts. Thank you. Pray, my sisters, my brothers, that this our sacrifice be acceptable to God the Almighty Father.
SPEAKER_07May the Lord accept the sacrifice at your hands for the praise and glory of the Sorry for our good and all his holy church.
SPEAKER_02Accept this sacrifice from your people, O Lord, and make what is offered for your glory in honor of blessed Saint Pius the Tenth a means of our eternal salvation. We make this prayer through Christ our Lord. Amen. The Lord be with you and with your spirit. Lift up your hearts. Lift them up, the Lord. Let us give thanks to the Lord our God. It is right and just it is truly right and just our duty in 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. Pius the 10th, you bid your church rejoice. So too you strengthen her by the example of his holy life, teach her by his words of preaching, and keep us safe in answer to his prayers. And so with the angels and saints, we sing the hymn of your praise as without end we acclaim.
SPEAKER_04Holy, holy, holy Lord God of hosts, heaven and earth are full of your glory. Hosanna in the highest in the highest. Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord. Hose in the highest.
SPEAKER_02At 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. Once more giving thanks, he 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_04When we eat this bread and drink. This cup, we proclaim your death, O Lord, until you come again.
SPEAKER_02Therefore, 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, Francis, our bishop, all the clergy, and this entire people of God. Remember also our brothers and sisters who have fallen asleep in the hope of the resurrection. Remember Jack from Rocky View, Alberta, and from all those who have died in your mercy, welcome them into the light of your face. Have mercy on us all that with the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of God, with Blessed Joseph Espouse, with the Blessed Apostles, with Saint Pius the Tenth, and all the saints who have pleased you throughout the ages, we may merit to be co-heirs to eternal life and praise and glorify you through your Son, Jesus Christ. Through him 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_03Amen.
SPEAKER_02At the Savior's command and formed by divine teaching, we now 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. This is 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, from every evil, graciously grant peace in our day, that by the help of your mercy we may be always free from sin, safe from all distresses, 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, you 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 union in the unity of the kingdom where you live forever and ever. The peace of the Lord be with you always. And with your spirit. Let us share with one another a sign of this peace and friendship.
SPEAKER_04You take away the sins of the world. Have mercy on us.
SPEAKER_02Behold the Lamb of God, 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 and my soul shall be healed. May the body and blood of Christ bring us in all our dear ones unto life everlasting.
SPEAKER_01My 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_02As the Father loves me, so I also love you. Remain in my love, says the Lord. Celebrating the memorial of Pope St. Pius X, we pray, O Lord, that by the power of this heavenly table we may be made constant in faith and be of one accord in your love through Christ our Lord. Amen. The Lord be with you and with your Spirit. May Almighty God bless you, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Amen. The Mass has been celebrated. Go in peace.
SPEAKER_01Our thanks to our donors for the gift of this Mass.