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Daily TV Mass
Daily TV Mass Wednesday March 18, 2026
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Msgr. Robert Nusca
From the historic Loreto Abbey Chapel. With the kind cooperation of the Toronto Catholic District School Board, the National Catholic Broadcasting Council presents the Daily TV Mass.
SPEAKER_06Welcome to the celebration of today's Daily TV Mass. I'm Monsignor Robert Nuska. The televising of this mass is made possible by the contribution from Frank and Kathy Rubio from Monroe, North Carolina. This Mass is offered in remembrance of their parents, Ronald Potter, Vernon West, and Joe and Socorro Rubio, and in honor of Barbara Potter West, and for the intentions of their children and grandchildren. On behalf of all who are gathered for the sacred celebration, we thank Frank and Kathy 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.
SPEAKER_00And with your Spirit.
SPEAKER_06Brothers 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. Now mighty God have mercy on us, forgive us our sins, and bring us to everlasting life. Amen. Let us pray. O God, who through the Bishop St. Cyril of Jerusalem led your church in a wonderful way to a deeper sense of the mysteries of salvation, grant us that through his intercession we may so acknowledge your Son as to have life ever more abundantly. We ask this 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_05Amen. A reading from the book of the prophet Isaiah. Thus says the Lord to his servant, In a time of favor I have answered you. On a day of salvation I have helped you. I have kept you and given you as a covenant to the people, to establish the land, to apportion the desolate heritages, saying to the prisoners, Come out to those who are in darkness, show yourselves. They shall feed along the ways, on all the bare heights shall be their pasture. They shall not hunger or thirst, neither scorching wind nor sun shall strike them down, for he who has pity on them will lead them, and by springs of water will guide them, and I will turn all my mountains into a road, and my highways shall be raised up. Lo these shall come from far away, and lo these from the north and from the west, and these from the land of Syin. Sing for joy, O heavens, and exalt, O earth, break forth, O mountains, into singing, for the Lord has comforted his people, and will have compassion on his suffering ones. But Zion said, The Lord has forsaken me, my Lord has forgotten me. Can a woman forget her nursing child or show no compassion for the child of her womb? Even these may forget, yet I will not forget you. The word of the Lord.
SPEAKER_02The Lord is faithful in all his words, and gracious in all his deeds. The Lord upholds all who are falling and raises up all who are powered. The Lord is kind and mercy fall. The Lord is just in all his ways and kind in all his wings. The Lord is near to all who call on him, to all who call on him in truth. The Lord is kind and mercy for you, Lord, King of Eternal Gory. Praise to you, Lord, King of Eternal Gory. I am the resurrection and the life, says the Lord. Whoever believes in me will not die forever. Praise to you, Lord, King of Eternal Gory.
SPEAKER_06The Lord be with you. A reading from the Holy Gospel according to John. Jesus healed a man who was paralyzed on the Sabbath. Therefore, the Jewish leaders started persecuting Jesus because he was doing such things on the Sabbath. But Jesus answered them, My Father is still working, and I also am working. For this reason the Jewish leaders were seeking all the more to kill him, because not only breaking the Sabbath, but was also calling God his own father, thereby making himself equal to God. Jesus said to them, Very truly I tell you, the Son can do nothing on his own, but only what he sees the Father doing. For whatever the Father does, the Son does likewise. The Father loves the Son, and shows him all that he himself is doing, and he will show greater works than these, so that you will be astonished. Indeed, just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so also the Son gives life to whomever he wishes. The Father judges no one, but has given all judgment to the Son, so that all may honor the Son just as they honor the Father. Any one who does not honor the Son, does not honor the Father who sent him. Very truly I tell you, anyone who hears my word and believes in believes him who sent me has eternal life, and does not come under judgment, but has passed from death to life. Very truly I tell you, the hour is coming and is now here, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live. For just as the Father has life in himself, so he has granted the Son also to have life in himself, and he has given him authority to execute judgment, because he is the Son of Man. Do not be astonished at this, for the hour is coming, when all who are in their graves will hear his voice and will come out. Those who have done good to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil to the resurrection of condemnation. I can do nothing on my own, as I hear I judge, and my judgment is just, because I seek to do not my own will, but the will of him who sent me. The Gospel of the Lord. In today's gospel, as we've heard, now Jesus has just cured a paralyzed man by the pool of Bethesda and Jerusalem, and now controversy arises. Jesus is now accused of breaking the Sabbath by performing miracles. In addition, he's accused of making himself equal to God by calling God Father. The irony of these accusations, I think, should be evident to the reader of John's Gospel, for from the very first verse we're told Jesus is the divine word of God, the logos, and is therefore equal to, indeed, one in being with the Father. This is further underscored, as we just heard, in the statements by our Lord Himself in today's Gospel, that whatever the Father does, the Son does likewise. The Father has given all judgment to the Son, and anyone who does not honor the Father who has sent him, does not honor the Son, does not honor the Father who sent him, and so forth. And I think that several things now emerge for our reflection. First of all, today's gospel leads us to reflect a bit on the mystery of God the Father. Here is the mystery of mysteries of our faith. The Father is the first person of the Blessed Trinity, the invisible Creator God, who sent his only Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, into the world for our salvation. Indeed, the Apostles' Creed begins: I believe in God the Father Almighty, creator of heaven and earth. So the catechism of the church calls this the first and for affirmation of the creed and the most fundamental. And as we reflect upon God the Father, many images come to mind. We think of the creator God of the book of Genesis, when chapter 17 speaks to Abraham, identifying himself as El Shaddai, or God Almighty. The voice of the Father speaks to Moses from the burning bush atop Mount Sinai. Here he reveals his name to Moses as I am, or I am who I am. In the book of Exodus, we're led to reflect upon the glory of God who leads his people through the desert. There's a pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night. Here God works great signs and wonders, causing the manna to fall from the sky and water to flow from a rock. The prophets speak with the Father's voice, they speak with his authority. Enoch walks with God. Elijah is taken up to God in a fiery chariot. Isaiah describes visions of God's heavenly throne room with the angels. Ezekiel is given visions of the glory of God by the waters of the river Chebar. The theologians, the mystics tell us that God is a pure mystery, that ultimately the greatness, the glory of God remain beyond the power of human language to fully express. But ours is a personal God, a loving God. Ours is a merciful God, a God who's just, a hidden God who at the same time reveals himself to humanity. Ours is the God of Abraham, God of Moses, of Isaac, of Jacob, the God of Sarah, of Leah, of Rachel. He's your God and my God. Jesus teaches us to pray to God, addressing him as our Father who art in heaven. Much more than a monologue, then, in which we somehow present a list of requests to the Father. Prayer leads us to enter into a living dialogue, a communion with God, as we address God in prayer and await his reply. So as we reflect upon the mystery of the Father during the season of Lent, we're reminded of the great importance of persevering in the spiritual life, of deepening our faith through prayer, through the life of the sacraments. Second, I think the theme of opposition to Jesus, by extension, opposition to the will of the Father, represents an important theme in all of the Gospels. In Mark, we have a certain emphasis on the mystery of spiritual warfare, the invisible powers of darkness that oppose Jesus and strive to undermine God's plan of salvation. Elsewhere in the Gospels, Jesus is opposed, as we've heard, by the religious experts, by the political elite of his day. And as we will see, he's betrayed by Judas, his apostle, and who betrays our Lord. Here, the kingdom of the world, the earthly empire, then, has always been opposed to the kingdom of God. The world has always been hostile to those who announce the good news of salvation, and give witness to the values of the everlasting kingdom of heaven, from John the Baptist to the martyrs of the church, even in our own time. This opposition between the values of the kingdom and the values of the world ultimately involves what St. Pope John Paul II referred to as the struggle for the world's soul. The struggle for the world's soul. And he reminds us if, on one hand, the gospel and evangelization are present in the world. On the other hand, there's also present a powerful anti-evangelization, which is well organized, has the means to vigorously oppose the gospel and evangelization. He goes on to add that the struggle for the soul of the contemporary world is at its height where the spirit of the world seems strongest. As I've said on other occasions, philosophers then have called our own time a destitute time, a destitute, both because so many people have turned away from God and destitute also because with the erasure of God from human experience and from public discourse, we are witnessing also the erasure of what's greatest and most noble in the human person, created in the image and likeness of God. The teachings of the church then continue to call us to be witnesses today to Christian love, to Christian joy, to the sanctity of life, again in an era marked too often by violence and indifference. To be witnesses to Christian hope in an era marked by growing despair and nihilism, to give witness to the power of the cross against the narcissistic, self-serving spirit of our postmodern, post-truth world, to be witnesses to the light of the resurrection against the powerful culture of death. At the same time, during the season of Lent, St. Gregory the theologian reminds us that in order to be effective, we must begin with ourselves, purifying ourselves before trying to purify others, to be instructed, to be able to instruct, to become light in order to illuminate others, to draw close to God, to bring him close to others, and to be sanctified in order to sanctify. In this way we are witnesses to Jesus Christ, the way, the truth, and the life, and this is so much needed in our time. So too, Saint Cyril of Jerusalem, who we remember today, great fourth century theologian, writes in his instructions, catechetical instructions, to wash yourself clean, that you may hold a richer store of grace. He adds that sins are forgiven equally for all, but communion in the Holy Spirit is given in the measure of each person's faith. If you've done little work, you will receive little. If you've achieved a great deal, great will be your reward. So run faithfully the race of faith and do so to your advantage. So as we continue to celebrate this Mass, let us pray for the grace to enter more deeply into dialogue with God, our Heavenly Father, whom Jesus Christ reveals, especially through our prayer, fasting, almsgiving, together with our love and service of the poor during the season of Lent. Let us pray for the grace of a great spiritual renewal in our own time, indeed, a new Pentecost for the church and for humanity in this third millennium, in the words of Pope Benedict XVI. So let us always keep our eyes ever focused upon the image of the city of God, the new Jerusalem, however distant it may seem at times, and so spend our lives helping it to make become a to become a reality in our time. And let us pray not only that we may experience God's mercy during the season of Lent, but that we may always radiate God's mercy, God's light, God's love to others, praying that through our actions, our words, and that all may be drawn to God, the eternal, all-powerful, good, and infinitely rich in mercy, God. Let us now present our prayers and petitions to God in heaven. Ask Him to hear and to answer our prayers. We pray for all in our daily TV Mass Prayer Intentions book, we pray to the Lord. This month's community prayer is for fathers, grandfathers, and protectors that they may lead with wisdom and humility, inspired by the quiet faith of St. Joseph. We pray to the Lord. And 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, fruit of the earth, and work of human hands, and will become for us the bread of life. So humble himself to share in our humanity. Blessed are you, Lord God of all creation, for your goodness. We receive the wine we offer you, fruit of the wine and work of human hands, it will become our spiritual drink. Lord, wash away in pleasant contrite. Pray, brothers and sisters, that my sacrifice and yours may be acceptable to God the Almighty Father.
SPEAKER_03May the Lord accept us and sacrifice in your hands for the praise and glory of his name for our good and all the Holy Spirit Church.
SPEAKER_06Look with favor, O Lord, we pray upon the offerings that we set upon the sacred altar on the feast of St. Cyril of Jerusalem, 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 right and just 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. As on the festival of St. Cyril of Jerusalem, 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.
SPEAKER_02Holy, holy, holy love gods your glory.
SPEAKER_06Make holy, therefore, these gifts we pray, by sending down your spirit upon them like the dew falls, so that they may become for us the body and blood of our Lord Jesus Christ. For 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 chalices, 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, and do this in memory of me. The mystery of faith.
SPEAKER_02We proclaim your death, oh Lord, and profess your resurrection until you come again.
SPEAKER_06Therefore, 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, 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, with the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of God, with Blessed Joseph, her spouse, with the blessed apostles, Saint Cyril of Jerusalem, 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. 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.
SPEAKER_02Amen.
SPEAKER_06At 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, 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. Lord Jesus Christ, who said 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.
SPEAKER_00Amen.
SPEAKER_06The peace of the Lord be with you always.
SPEAKER_00And with your spirit.
SPEAKER_06Let us extend to those around us a sign of the peace of Christ.
SPEAKER_02Have mercy on us. Lamb of God you take away the sins of the world.
SPEAKER_06Behold the Lamb of God, behold him who takes away the sins of the world. Blessed are those called to the supper of the Lamb.
SPEAKER_04My 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_06Let us pray. Renewed by these sacred mysteries, we humbly pray, O Lord, that following the example of St. Cyril of Jerusalem, we may strive to profess what he believed and to practice what he taught. We ask this through Christ our Lord. Amen. The Lord be with you. May Almighty God bless you, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Amen. Go forth, the Mass is ended.
SPEAKER_00Thanks be to God.
SPEAKER_01Our thanks to our donors for the gift of this Mass.
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