Daily TV Mass Monday May 25, 2026

Fr. Michael Coutts, S.J.

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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.

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In 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.

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And with you our spirit.

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Welcome to the celebration of the Daily Televised Mass as we celebrate the feast of Mary, the mother of the Church. I am Father Michael Coots. The televising of this Mass is made possible by a contribution from three donors. The first is the wife and children of the late Peter Justiano Wallace, who would have celebrated his birthday today, for their special intentions and thanksgiving to our Mother of Perpetual Health, for the good health of living family members, for the report of the souls of the deceased families, and the souls in purgatory, especially those who have no one to pray for them, for increased vocation to the priesthood and religious life, for peace and justice. May God grant their children and grandchildren the grace to make right decisions and for healing. The second is Maria Rako from King City, Ontario, in support of the Daily TV Mass. The third is Jose Bondoc from Tampa, Florida, for the repose of the soul of his wife Maria Bondoc, who passed away in 2010. Our thanks to the donors for the gift of this Mass. As we celebrate this feast today, we ask Mary to intercede before the throne of God for us. 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.

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Lord, have mercy.

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May Almighty God have mercy on us, forgive us our sins, and bring us to everlasting life. Let us pray. O God, Father of mercies, whose only begotten Son, as he hung on the cross, chose Mary to be his Mary, his mother, to be our mother also. Grant that with her loving help your church may be more fruitful day by day, and exulting in the holiness of her children, may draw to her embrace all the families of the peoples. 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. A reading from the book of Genesis. When Adam had eaten from the tree, the Lord God called to him and said, Where are you? The man said, I heard the sound of you in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked and I hid myself. God said, Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten fruit from the tree of which I commanded you not to eat? The man said, The woman who you gave to be with me, she gave me fruit from the tree and I ate. Then the Lord God said to the woman, What is this that you have done? The woman said, The serpent tricked me, and I ate it. The Lord God said to the serpent, Because you have done this, accursed are you among the animals, and among all dwell creatures. Upon your belly you shall go, and dust you shall eat all the days of your life. I will put enity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers. He will strike your head, and you will strike his heel. The man named his wife Eve, because she was the mother of all the living. The word of the Lord.

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O daughter, you are blessed by the most high God above all other women on earth, and blessed be the Lord God who created the heavens and the earth. You are the great pride of our nation. Your praise will never depart from the hearts of those who remember the power of God. May God grant this to be a perpetual honor to you, and may He reward you with blessings. You are the great pride of our nation. Blessed are you, holy Virgin Mary, and worthy of praise. For from you arose the Son of Justice, Christ our God Hallelujah, Hallelujah.

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A reading from the Holy Gospel according to John. Standing near the cross of Jesus was were his mother and his mother's sister, Mary, the wife of Clophus and Mary Magdalene. When Jesus saw his mother and his disciple, whom he loved, standing beside her, he said to his mother, Woman, here is your son. Then he said to the disciple, here is your mother. And from that hour the disciple took her into his own home. Pentecost is traditionally celebrated as the birthday of the church. The Monday after Pentecost is a recently instituted feast of Mary, the mother of the church. It is as recent as the year 2019, and it was instituted by Pope Francis. In a world in which there's so much division, chaos, and confusion, which also extends to our churches, to our families, to our schools, our hearts are troubled, and we need motherly care to help us during this difficult time. And it's so apt that we have Mary designed as the mother of our church. Pentecost is a feast that we celebrate as the birthday of the church when the Holy Spirit came down upon the apostles, and then over 500 others, as we were told, which was practically all the church in those days. And when the Holy Spirit came down on them, they were renewed, they were transformed. They went out and proclaimed the death, the resurrection of Jesus Christ. They told all people who were willing to listen that sin was forgiven, that salvation was for all, that at the judgment God would not lose them or abandon them. God wanted salvation for all people, but he designed in his great plan of salvation that Mary would be the center of that plan of salvation. Mary said yes to the invitation of God at the time of the Annunciation, and she never reneged on that promise for the rest of her life. As we heard in the gospel, at the cross, her station keeping stood the mournful mother weeping close to Jesus to the end. And it was this end that Jesus said to her, Woman, behold your son. And he entrusted John, who stood for the church 2,000 years ago and all through the centuries, even till our own time. It was so necessary that she would be there because she would have a balance. She knew exactly what we were going through. She herself, excuse me, she herself, during her own lifetime, had a whole lot of issues which she had no idea, no solution, no answers. And we are told that she pondered these things in her heart. When Mary found that she was told that they had to move during the height of her pregnancy all the way from Nazareth to Bethlehem, she could have very well said to the Lord, You organize the whole universe, and you couldn't organize a census at this time. You could put the stars and the moon in their places, but there is no place for me to have this child who is the Son of God. You want this child who be the life of all nations, and yet one of the people is trying to kill him. All these questions and problems and issues, we are told that Mary pondered it in her heart. And a mother has got that wonderful character of holding the church together just like our mothers hold our families together. A mother more than a father, a brother, a sister, uncle, or aunts hold the family together. When my mother was alive, I would meet all my brothers, my nephews, and my nieces. I knew when a baby was born, a teenager falling in love, a brother who had gone to a hospital or a sister-in-law who had an issue with a child, a nephew or niece going off to Europe in order to study. And then when my mother died, we hardly meet together. It's not that we don't know what is going on, but very often I know a baby is born when I'm invited for the baptism, or when the couple has gone off on their honeymoon, or when the nephew or niece has returned after a year from Europe. Now, these things are important in our lives and we know them, but it is a mother that holds things together. So why do we need the feast of Mary when we have so many feasts of Our Lady, the Immaculate Conception, the Nativity, Mary the Queen of the Universe, Mary the Queen of Apostles, we have the holy name of Mary. Why do we need it so badly today? Well, basically, because if we look at our world today, in all the continents, perhaps except Australia, there are at least two or three countries that are at war with one another. They have leaders who are egomaniacs, so self-centered, and who have delusions of grandeur. They proclaim to the whole world we have made our country much better than it was before. We can organize that there is order and peace in our country. When they have been starting wars not only in their own countries, but according to countries across the world, and we are totally unconcerned of the thousands that have died, of many more thousands that are injured and left homeless. In this time, we need somebody to give us that balance, that calmness, that security. And who else than Mary, our mother? At times like this, in times of pain and grief and bitterness, we tend to pray the prayer of the Psalm 73, and it says, I envied the arrogant when I saw the prosperity of the wicked. They have no struggle, their bodies are healthy and strong, they are free from common human bondage, they are not plagued by human will ills. They clothe themselves with violence, and from their callous hearts comes iniquity, and their evil imaginations knows no limits. Their callous hearts focus on iniquity, and their evil imaginations know no limit. It is at times like this we need somebody that will hold us together. And as Saint Ignatius of Loyola would say that if we want to make our prayer to the Father, then we should go through Jesus, and who else can take us to Jesus than Mary, the mother of the church? And Pope John Paul II would repeat the same message to all of us. If we want our prayers to be answered, let us go through Mary. We want justice in the world today. Who else can bring it than the Queen of Peace, the mother of the church? She invites us to come to the table and the banquet of the Lord. And like at Cana, you can be sure that there will be no lack of wine, the wine of joy and contentment. God bless you all. Join me now as we pray together. For the Pope's intention in this month of May, that everyone might have food. We pray that everyone, from large producers to small consumers, be committed to avoid wasting food and to ensure that everyone has access to quality food. We pray to the Lord. For the sponsors of our Mass today, for the families of Peter Wallace, for Maria Rocco from King City, and for the repose of the soul of Monica Bondock, we pray to the Lord.

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Lord, hear our prayer.

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For all those in our daily TV Mass Prayer Intention book, we pray to the Lord. Lord hear our prayer. Loving God, during this month of May, our community prays to follow the example of Mary by offering joy, compassion, and mercy, especially to mothers and grandmothers, and who are who lovingly serve those in need. 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.

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Blessed be God forever.

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The mystery of this wine and water. May we come to share in the divinity of Christ, and to humble Himself and to share in our humanity. Blessed are you, Lord, God of all creation, for through your goodness we have this wine we offer you. Fruit of the wine and work of human hands, it will become for us our spiritual drink.

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Blessed be God forever.

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Lord God, be pleased to accept these gifts that we offer to you with humble and with contrite heart. Thank you. Pray, my sisters, my brothers, that this our sacrifice be acceptable to God, the Almighty Father.

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For our good and good of all his holy church.

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Receive our offerings, O Lord, and transform them into the mystery of salvation, so that by its power we may be set aflame with the charity of Mary, the mother of the church. And with her may we be united more closely to the work of our redemption. We make this prayer through Christ our Lord. Amen. The Lord be with you and with your spirit. Lift up your hearts. Let us give thanks to the Lord our God. It is right and just truly right and just our duty and our salvation, always and everywhere, to give you thanks, Lord, Holy Father, Almighty and Eternal God, and to proclaim your greatness with due praise as we honor the Blessed Virgin Mary. Receiving your word in her immaculate heart, she was found worthy to conceive him in her virgin's womb, and giving birth to the Creator, she nurtured the beginnings of the church. Standing beside the cross, she received the testament of divine love and took to herself as sons and daughters all those who by the death of Christ are born to heavenly life. As the apostles awaited the spirit you had promised, she joined her supplications with the prayers of the disciples, and so became the pattern of the church at prayer. Raised to glory of heaven, she accompanies your pilgrim church with a motherly love and watches in her kindness over the church's homeward steps until the Lord's day when they shall come in glorious splendor. And so with the angels and saints we praise you, as without end we acclaim.

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Holy, holy, holy Lord God of hosts. Heaven and earth are full of your glory. Hosanna in the highest. 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, by sending down your spirit upon them like the dewfall, so that they may become for us the body and blood of your our Lord Jesus Christ. At the time he was betrayed and entered willingly into his passion, he took bread, and giving you 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, and 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. The mystery of faith.

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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, 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 Monica Bondock, remember Peter Wallace, and all those 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 a spouse, with the blessed apostles, and with 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 forever and ever. Amen. At the Savior's command, informed 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. 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, 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 distress, as we await the blessed hope and the coming of our Saviour, Jesus Christ. For the kingdom of our 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 her peace and unity in accordance with your will, who live and reign forever and ever. 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.

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Have mercy on us.

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Behold 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 an old dear ones unto life everlasting.

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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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The Lord be with you. And with your Spirit.