Daily TV Mass Saturday April 11, 2026

Fr. Peter Jae Choi

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 Council presents the Daily TV Mass.

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Welcome to the celebration of the Daily TV Mass. I am Father Peter J. Troy. The televising of this Mass is made possible by the contributions from our donors. The first is Teresa Shepherd from Sun City, Arizona, in thanksgiving for the Daily TV Mass, which is a blessing for all those who are shut-ins. The Daily TV Mass ministry is made possible by the generous contributions of all our donors, and in a special way, our monthly donors. This month of April, our community prays that all who are burdened by grief or discouragement may be lifted by the light of the risen Christ and renewed in hope. Our thanks to all our donors for the gift of this Mass. In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.

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Amen.

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The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the communion of the Holy Spirit be with you all.

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And with your Spirit.

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Brothers and sisters, let us call to mind our sins and so prepare ourselves to celebrate the sacred mysteries. I confess to Almighty God and to you, my brothers and sisters, that I have greatly sinned in my thoughts and in my words, in what I have done, in what I have failed to do, through my fault, through my fault, through my most gracious faults. Therefore I ask, blessing name, ever 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. Lord have mercy. Christ have mercy. Lord have mercy.

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Lord have mercy.

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Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace to people of good will. We praise you, we bless you, we adore you, we glorify you. We give you thanks for your great glory. Lord God, Heavenly King, O God, Almighty Father, Lord Jesus Christ's only begotten Son, Lord God, Lamb of God, Son of the Father, you take away the sins of the world, have mercy on us. You take away the sins of the world, receive our prayer. You are seated at the right hand of the Father, have mercy on us, for you alone are the Holy One, you alone are the Lord, you alone are the most high Jesus Christ. With the Holy Spirit in the glory of God the Father. Let us pray. O God, who by the abundance of your grace, give increase to the peoples who believe in you. Look with favor on those you have chosen, and clothe with blessed immortality those reborn through the sacrament of baptism. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God forever and ever.

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Amen.

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A reading from the Acts of the Apostles. Now, when the rulers, elders, and scribes saw the boldness of Peter and John and realized that they were uneducated and ordinary men, they were amazed and recognized them as companions of Jesus. When they saw the man who had been cured standing beside them, they had nothing to say in opposition. So they ordered Peter and John to leave the council while they discussed the matter with one another. They said, What will we do with them? For it is obvious to all who live in Jerusalem that a notable sign has been done through them. We cannot deny it. But to keep it from spreading farther among the people, let us warn them to speak no more to anyone in this name. So they called the two apostles and ordered them not to speak or teach at all in the name of Jesus. But Peter and John answered them, whether it is right in God's sight to listen to you rather than to God, you must judge. For we cannot keep from speaking about what we have seen and heard. After threatening them again, they let them go, finding new way to punish them because of the people. For all of them praised God for what had happened. The word of the Lord.

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Open to me the gates of righteousness, that I may enter through them and give thanks to the Lord. This is the gate of the Lord. The righteous shall enter through it. I thank you that you have answered me and have become my salvation. I praise you, Lord, for you have answered me. This is the day the Lord has made.

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She went out and told those who had been with him while they were mourning and weeping. But when the disciples heard that he was alive and had been seen by her, they would not believe it. After this, Jesus appeared in another form to two of them, as they were walking into the country. And they went back and told the rest, but they did not believe them. Later he appeared to the eleven themselves as they were sitting at the table, and he upbraided them for their lack of faith and stubbornness, because they had not believed those who saw him after he had risen. And Jesus said to them, Go into all the world and proclaim the good news to the whole creation. The gospel of the Lord. Harry had just completed his training and celebrated his engagement when the colonel announced that the regiment was being dispatched to Egypt to rescue the British general Charles Gordon. Harry chose a safer option and resigned from the army. He thought his decision would be well received by his family and his fiancee. But unfortunately, his father disowned him. Three of his best friends each gave him a white feather, which symbolized cowardice. His fiance also gave him a white feather and broke off the engagement. Haunted by the shame of receiving four white feathers, he decides to reclaim his honor. He undertakes a dangerous journey to rescue his friends from perilous situations. He ended up saving the lives of his friends who condemned him and gave him white feathers. Harry was no longer the coward, the coward he used to be. He became a brave soldier who risked his life for his friends. At the end of the movie, Harry's father acknowledges Harry as his son, his former fiance, Ethne, reclaimed her feather from Harry, and they're engaged again. In the gospel, we find the eleven disciples hiding together in the upper room because they were afraid of persecution from the authorities. When they heard that Jesus rose from the dead, they didn't believe it. They didn't believe Mary Magdalene, and they didn't believe the two who saw Jesus with their own eyes. So when Jesus appeared to them, he rebuked them for their lack of faith. Jesus told his disciples in St. John's Gospel, Blessed are those who have not seen and yet believed. A familiar phrase seeing is believing is not entirely true. Because if I see it, I know it. I don't need to believe in something I already know. For example, I own a car. I don't need to believe it, because I already know I do. Faith, on the other hand, is having a certainty of knowledge on something we haven't seen. I believe the bread and wine, once consecrated, truly becomes the body and blood of Christ. I believe in eternal life in God's heavenly kingdom, not because I've seen it with my own eyes, but because I believe in the authority and credibility of Jesus who revealed it to the disciples. Peter and John came to realize this. Their faith made them boldly share the good news of salvation with the rest of the world. The leaders, elders, and scribes were shocked when they found out Peter and John were just ordinary men. Peter and John were neither esteemed scholars nor held important posts like them. Even with no education and social influence backing their credentials, the disciples spoke with boldness and conviction. Their threat of persecution couldn't dampen their apostolic zeal and determination to carry out their divine mandate to go and proclaim the good news to all creation. They would rather suffer the consequences of civil disobedience than disobey God's command to evangelize the world. They bravely overcame their fear and became zealous apostles who share their faith in the good news. Peter and John were ordinary men. You don't have to be ordained clergy or professor religious to preach the good news. Anyone can do it. In fact, God expects you and me to share the good news. I remember this story I heard from a priest friend of mine. A young priest was giving a tour of the church to a group of grade two students. He took time to explain the presence of Christ in the tabernacle and explain the importance of the crucifix, the altar, the stations of the cross, and the confessional. After the tour was finished, just to make sure that the children were paying attention, the priest asked him a question. Tell me one important lesson you've learned today. Little Johnny puts up his hand enthusiastically and points to the exit sign. All his classmates started to giggle, trying to hold back their laughter. The priest was feeling upset, but he decided to be patient and asked Johnny to explain what he meant. Johnny explained, I think the exit sign is very important because when we walk out the door, our faith comes alive. Johnny wasn't wrong. What we do inside the church matters. Our worship and prayer is very important. But how we live out our faith matters. We can all say that we believe in God, but how many of us can truly say I trust him or I serve him and really mean it? We all saw that the disciples were afraid at first, and they chose a safer option of hiding in the upper room. But their encounter with the risen Lord changed everything. They overcame their fear with courage and boldness. Today's gospel reminds us that when Jesus rose from the dead, we've been given a newness of life and a new beginning. That's why today's gospel says Sunday became the first day of new creation and the first day of the week. When we use the word weekend, the semantics of the word makes it sound like we're giving God the leftovers. Let's not give God the leftovers or our minimal efforts. What we give to God matters. God deserves to be our first day, our first fruits, and our very best. For all those in our daily TV Mass Prayer Intentions book, we pray to the Lord.

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Lord, hear our prayer.

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For the month of April, our community prays that all who are burdened by grief or discouragement may be uplifted by the light of the risen Christ and renewed in hope. We pray to the Lord. Lord, hear our prayer. Heavenly Father, we have presented to you all our needs. We ask you to grant them through Christ our Lord.

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Amen.

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May the Lord accept the sacrifice at your hands for the praise and glory of his name for our good and for the Holy Holy Church.

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Grant, we pray, O Lord, that we may always find delight in these paschal mysteries, so that the renewal constantly at work within us may be the cause of our unending joy through Christ our Lord.

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Amen.

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The Lord be with you. And with your spirit. Lift up your hearts.

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We lift them up to the Lord.

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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 at all times to acclaim you whole Lord. But on this day of all to love you and more gloriously, when Christmas has been sacrificed, for he is the true Lamb who has taken away the sins of the world. By dying, he has destroyed the death, and by rising we heast the hoard our life. Therefore, overcome in past the joy, every land and every people exalts in your praise, and even the heavenly powers with the ungently ghosts sing together the unending hymn of your glory as the Hague claims.

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Holy, holy, holy Lord, God of hosts, heaven and earth are full of 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 youthful, 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, 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 out 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 it from it. For this is the chalice of my blood, the blood of the new and Would you want to have for you and for me?

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Do this in memory of me The mystery of faith, we proclaim your death, O Lord, and profess your resurrection until you come again.

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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 been, who have pleased you throughout the ages, we may merity 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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Amen.

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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, 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 Savior, Jesus Christ.

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The kingdom, the power, and the glory are yours now and forever.

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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.

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Amen.

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The peace of the Lord be with you always.

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And with your spirit.

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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. Look with kindness upon your people, O Lord, and grant we pray that those who are pleased to renew by eternal mysteries may attain in their flesh the incorruptible glory of the resurrection through Christ our Lord.

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Amen.

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The Lord be with you and with your spirit.

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May Almighty God bless you, the Father, and the Son and the Holy Spirit.

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Amen.

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Go in peace, alleluya, hallelujah.

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