Daily TV Mass Tuesday March 24, 2026

Thomas Cardinal Collins

Transcript

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From the historic Loreto Abbey Chapel. With the kind cooperation of the Toronto Catholic District School Board, the National Catholic Broadcasting Coach. Presented. The Daily TV Mass.

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Welcome to the celebration of the Daily TV Mass. I am Cardinal Collins. This Mass is one of the three annual Memorial and Special Intention Masses of the Sarah Foundation of Canada to pray for the recipients of the Sarah Foundation Memorial and Special Intention Mass gift cards, whose names will be scrolled following this Mass. The televising of this Mass is made possible by the generosity of the Sarah Foundation of Canada, the Sarah Canada Council, and the Sarah Clubs of Canada. Sarons are lay Catholics, men and women of all ages and from all walks of life dedicated to promoting and affirming priestly and religious vocations. An important part of the Sarah Club mission is to pray for vocations to the priesthood, religious life, and the permanent diaconate. We thank the members of the Sarah Clubs of Canada for the gift of this Mass. In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. Peace be with you. And with your spirit. As we prepare now to celebrate the holy sacrifice of the Mass, we call to mind our sins and ask God's mercy. You were sent to heal the contrite of heart. Lord, have mercy. You came to call sinners. Christ have mercy. You plead for us at the right hand of the Father. Lord, have mercy. May Almighty God have mercy on us, forgive us our sins, and bring us to everlasting life. Let us pray. Grant us, we pray, O Lord, perseverance in obeying your will, that in our days the people dedicated to your service may grow in both merit and number. Through our 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 Numbers. From Mount Or, the Israelites set out by the way to the Red Sea to go around the land of Edom. But the people became impatient on the way. The people spoke against God and against Moses. Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no food and no water, and we detest this miserable food. Then the Lord sent poisonous serpents among the people, and they bit the people, so that many Israelites died. The people came to Moses and said, We have sinned by speaking against the Lord and against you. Pray to the Lord to take away the serpents from us. So Moses prayed for the people. And the Lord said to Moses, Make a poisonous serpent and set it on a pole, and everyone who is bitten shall look at it and live. So Moses made a serpent of bronze and put it upon a pole. And whenever a serpent bit someone, that person would look at the serpent of bronze and live. The word of the Lord.

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Hear my prayer, O Lord. Let my cry come to you. Do not hide your face from me in the day of my distress. Incline your ear to me, answer me speedily in the day when I call. He will appear in his glory. He will regard the prayer of the destitute, and will not despise their prayer. And let my cry come to you. All who come to him will live forever. Praise to you, Lord, King of Eternal Glo.

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The Lord be with you. A reading from the Holy Gospel according to John. Jesus said to the people, I am going away, and you will search for me, but you will die in your sin. Where I am going, you cannot come. And then the Jews said, Is he going to kill himself? Is that what he means by saying, Where I am going you cannot come? But Jesus said to them, You are from below, I am from above. You are of this world, I am not of this world. I told you that you would die in your sins, for you will die in your sins unless you believe that I am He. They said to him, Who are you? Jesus said to them, Why do I speak to you at all? I have much to say about you and much to condemn, but the one who sent me is true, and I declare to the world what I have heard from him. They did not understand that he was speaking to them about the Father. So Jesus said, When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will realize that I am He, and that I do nothing on my own. But I speak these things as the Father instructed me, and the one who sent me is with me. He has not left me alone, for I always do what is pleasing to him. As Jesus was saying these things, many believed in him. The gospel of the Lord. Now, why were they saluting a big pillar of stone? That makes no sense. But of course, they weren't really. It was the cenotaph. It represented the sacrifice of those who had died for their country, who'd offered their lives in sacrifice. And so by saluting the big pillar of stone, that physical object, they really were, everyone knew. They were not saluting just that. They were saluting the sacrifice of those who had died for their country. And so it is around the world, at Remembrance Day, where people leave wreaths in honor of those who have died. And they do so, though, not just generically, they do so at a cenotaph, at a pillar of stone. That represents it in time and space. This is what we, in faith, call the sacramental principle. God works in this physical world. Divinely he works, but he works in physical ways. And that's utterly important in our life. He comes to our level because we cannot on our own go to his. We see a foreshadowing of that in the Old Testament in the first reading today, that people were dying from the bites of these venomous serpents. And so the Lord asked Moses to hold up a symbol, a sign of a serpent, a bronze serpent, which would represent not death but life. And as they looked to that, they were healed. God was using something physical to bring about the healing of those people, the divine power of healing. And of course, the greatest example of the sacramental reality is the coming of Almighty God into this world, our Lord Himself. Almighty God does not stay in icy distance and majesty, but he enters this world, God with us, our Lord Jesus Christ, the second person of the Trinity, to walk amongst us, to speak to us, to heal us in physical ways, ultimately by being lifted up on the cross in sacrifice and love, overcoming the power of sin and death and hatred by his love. Father, forgive them. They know not what they do. And he continues to do that. The Lord works in physical ways, sometimes in ordinary little physical ways, like for example, this is what we call a sacramental. It's the rosary. It's simply a reminder of God. But, of course, he works in other ways much more profound, is what we are doing here. This is Almighty God is taking bread and wine, very physical, as much as a block of stone or other such things. He's taking something very physical, very uninspiring in itself. And by transforming that, he becomes amongst, he comes amongst us. That's why I always, when I lift up the host and the chalice with the consecrated blood of Christ, I always say in my own heart quietly, Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me as sinner. And then when I genuflect, which these days is more horizontally than vertically, I always say, My Lord and my God. This isn't just a reminder of Jesus, as a picture, a holy crucifixion thing, or a rosary is. It is the Lord coming to us in physical ways. So all of the sacraments are profoundly important. They are the way that God comes to us in our struggles to lead us to heaven, to lead us to Him. And that's why we pray that these sacraments may be widely known amongst us so we may enter into them and experience the divine power through the physical signs of the Holy Eucharist above all, but the forgiveness of sins. The seven sacraments, baptism, confirmation, all of those in which water, oil, things like that are used to be physical instruments through which Almighty God enters and transforms us and comes amongst us. And that's also a reason, maybe appropriate to think of today at this Mass, why we pray that the Lord will inspire and draw people to, from amongst our community, to be instruments of his grace, to make possible the celebration of the sacraments. And that's really the purpose of the Sarah Club, to pray to the Lord. Because the only thing Jesus ever said was about vocations is pray to the Lord of the harvest to send laborers into the harvest. And uh the Sarah Club does that. It helps, it reaches out in every way to encourage those whom the Lord has called to serve in the consecrated life, in the priesthood, and permanent diacritic and other ways to step forward and help be instruments through which God, divine, sublime, far beyond us, enters into our world again by his will through the sacraments, through the word of God and the seven sacraments of the church. And so I always pray that people will support and enter and join in the great work of the Sarah Club to pray the Lord to make this sacramental reality more and more strong amongst us as he draws us close to him. And now let us offer our prayers to Almighty God. We pray for all of those in the 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 Saint Joseph. We pray to the Lord.

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Lord, we are prayer.

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Lord Jesus, shelter of our whole shelter our Holy Father Poblio, under the protection of your sacred heart, and be his light, his strength, and his consolation, we pray to the Lord.

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Lord, we're our merit.

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Lord Jesus, we ask that you support our priests, deacons, and religious with your presence and fill them with grace to serve you faithfully, we pray to the Lord.

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Lord, you're our prayer.

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For the graduating classes of St. Augustine Seminary and Redemptors Matter Seminary, who are being honored today at the 2026 Archdiocese of Toronto Ordinary Dinner, may the Holy Spirit strengthen them in their final studies and deepen their sense to serve Christ and His Church. We pray to the Lord. Heavenly Father, we ask you to hear these and all of our prayers, which we offer to you through Christ our Lord. Fruit of the earth and work of human hands, it will become for us the bread of life. By the mystery of this water and wine, 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 receive the wine we offer you. Fruit of the vine and work of human hands, it will become our spiritual drink.

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Blessed be God forever.

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Lord God, be pleased to receive us and accept the sacrifice we offer you with humble and contrite hearts. Lord, wash away my iniquities and cleanse me of all my sins. Pray that my sacrifice and yours may be acceptable to God the Almighty Father. We offer you, O Lord, the sacrifice of conciliation, that being moved to compassion, you may both pardon our offenses and erect our wavering hearts through Christ our Lord.

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Amen.

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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, for you have given your children a sacred time for the renewing and purifying of their hearts, that freed from disordered affections, they may so deal with the things of this passing world as to hold rather to the things that eternally endure. And so with all the angels and saints we praise you, as without end we acclaim.

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Holy, holy, holy Lord God of all heaven and earth your glory. Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord Hosanna in 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, 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. 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.

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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, and 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. 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. 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. Let us offer to one another a sign of the peace of Christ.

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Lamb of God you take away the sins of the Word. Have mercy on us, Lamb God, you take away the sins of the Word. Have mercy on us.

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Behold him who takes away the sins of the world. Blessed are those 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.

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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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Grant we pray, Almighty God, that ever seeking what is divine, we may always be worthy to approach these heavenly gifts through Christ our Lord. The Lord be with you. Blessed be the name of the Lord, now and forever. Our help is in the name of the Lord, who made heaven and earth. May Almighty God bless you and remain with you always, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Let us go in the peace of Christ.

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Thanks to God.

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

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We gather, we stay in the Father's Lord. We gather with Jesus his son. We gather we faith with the spirit. We gather together as God. We are all baby as we have together as far. We can be saved.