Sunday Daily TV Mass Sunday May 31, 2026

Fr. Peter Turrone

Transcript

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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 Sunday TV Mass.

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Welcome to the celebration of the Sunday TV Mass on the Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity. I'm Father Peter Turone. The televising of this Mass is made possible by the contributions from three donors. The first is the Langevin de Rocher family from Ontario. In loving memory of Diane, may her soul rest in eternal peace, and thanksgiving for blessings received and for the living and deceased members of the family. The second is a donor from Lynnhurst, Ontario, for the repose of the souls of Adelaard and Leon Perry, Walter Beatrice Joyce, William Delia on the tenth anniversary of her passing, Billy Joyce, Claude and Edwig Michaude, Valerie, Rick, and for all the deceased members of the Mishhod, Martin, Perry, Joyce, Richard, and Cryley families. For the souls in purgatory, and thanksgiving for blessings received and for world peace. The third is the Garcia family in Toronto, Ontario, in loving memory of the Melquiades and Juana Garcia. Our thanks for the donors for the gift of the 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 Lord be with you. Brothers and sisters, let us acknowledge 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 and in what I have failed to do, through my fault, through my fault, through my most grievous fault. Therefore I ask Blessed Mary, 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.

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Amen.

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Lord have mercy. Christ have mercy. Lord have mercy. 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, 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. Amen. Let us pray. God our Father, who by sending into the world the word of truth and the spirit of sanctification, made known to the human race your wondrous mystery. Grant us we pray that in professing the true faith we may acknowledge the Trinity of eternal glory and adore your unity, powerful in majesty. 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 book of Exodus. Moses rose early in the morning and went up on Mount Sinai, as the Lord had commanded him, and took in his hand the two tablets of stone. The Lord descended in the cloud and stood with him there and proclaimed the name of the Lord. The Lord passed before Moses and proclaimed, The Lord, the Lord, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness. And Moses quickly bowed his head toward the earth and worshiped. He said, If now I have found favor in your sight, O Lord, I pray, let the Lord go with us. Although this is a stiff-necked people, pardon our iniquity and our sin and take us for your inheritance. The word of the Lord.

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Blessed are you, O Lord God our Father, and blessed is your glorious and holy name. Glory and praise forever. Blessed are you in the temple of your holy glory, and to be extolled and highly glorified forever. Glory and praise forever. Blessed are you on the throne of your kingdom, and to be extolled and highly exalted forever. Glory and praise forever.

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Agree with one another. Live in peace, and the God of love and peace will be with you. Greet one another with a holy kiss. All the saints greet you. The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit be with all of you. The word of the Lord.

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Thanks be to God. Glory to the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, to God who is, who was, and who is to come.

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A reading from the Holy Gospel according to John. Glory to you, O Lord. Jesus said to Nicodemus, God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not perish, but may have eternal life. Indeed, God did not send the Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. The one who believes in him is not condemned, but the one who does not believe is condemned already, for not having believed, in the name of the only begotten Son of God. The Gospel of the Lord. So one of the joys of being a priest is being able to accompany people to in their faith journey. And in RCIA, we had many people this year receive baptism in our parish and throughout the Archdiocese of Toronto and not only, but also throughout Canada and in many other places. So you can see that there's this strong desire for God, for peace. And the question always is, who is God? So for the Christians that are not yet Catholic and they're received in the church, there's already this understanding. But for those that are Jewish or Muslim or Hindu or of no faith, so when they're coming and they're asking, there's this desire. So who is God? Who is this God? And many people, the idea that they have is that God is solitary. We say that God is one. God is one, there's one God, absolutely, but God is not solitary. God, for us as Christians, we have the full understanding, God is a communion of persons. God is Father, God is Son, God is Holy Spirit. And the remarkable thing is that when we look at this beautiful mystery that is revealed to us, when the church calls it a mystery, she doesn't mean to say that there's absolutely nothing we can know about God, because that would contradict Scripture. But the Lord Himself said he comes from the Father. He's been sent by the Father to reveal, to reveal the truth of the Godhead and the mystery of God in our lives and his plans for us. So we can understand certain things about God, we can know that God exists. There are many people, as I said, there are many people, uh even the ancients understood that there was a God. But that God is a Trinity, that God is a communion of persons, is revealed to us explicitly by Jesus Christ, who is the second person of the Trinity. When we look back and we look at the Old Testament, we can look and we can see signs, right? We can see signs that God is Father, that God is Son, that God is Holy Spirit. It's all there. And as St. Augustine said, he said that the new is hidden in the old, and the old is made manifest in the new. So when Jesus gives us this great revelation, again, there's this communion. So there's no God isn't solitary, but God exists as a communion of persons, Father, Son, Holy Spirit, and there's this relationship of love. Right? This great relationship of love. As we know as Christians, God did not have to create the world because God is perfectly content within himself as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. But out of this love that God has, this outpouring of God's love, he creates the world and us as well. So this outpouring of love, and then we see the consequences of this rejection of love by our Adam and Eve, but then God's desire, the Father's desire, to save us, to bring us back into communion with himself. And he does this by sending Jesus. And he sends us, he sends the Lord to us so that we can again enter once more in the family, and he does this through the power of the Holy Spirit. So God is one, but God is distinct in personhood. So the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. And the action of God is always Trinitarian. Just think about what's going to happen in a few minutes at the altar. What are you going to hear? So when the bread and the wine are presented, so myself, the priest that celebrates is Father, send the Holy Spirit so that this becomes, this bread, this wine becomes the body and blood of Jesus. So there's this continual Trinitarian action. When we pray, when you're praying at home, wherever you are, when we're praying, who allows us to enter into this communion with the Father and the Son? It's the Holy Spirit. So the Holy Spirit draws us into the mystical life of God. So He reveals, He reveals to us, Jesus says He reminds us of everything that Jesus Himself taught. And he gives us the grace and the capacity to be able to experience this. So I can know things intellectually about the Trinity. I can know that God exists, to know that God is a Trinity, it must be revealed to me. When I accept this in faith, then so many things make sense about life, about the Old Testament, about how we're meant to live, how we can communicate with God, what's happening at the Mass, at the altar, all of these different actions. But we can understand ultimately why, again, John refers to God as love. If God were solitary, who is he loving if he's only father? And then if he, how can he be only father? Because a father has a son, has a child. And the love between the Father and the Son is the generation of the Holy Spirit. And then the Holy Spirit is the one that the Father and the Son sent. He says, I promise to send you. And he draws us back into the life of God. It's this remarkable gift that the Lord has given us. And we can experience that by loving God, but also loving each other. Because the Holy Spirit is the one that draws us all together in Christ, offering us to the Father. And we can see, as Paul tells us in Corinthians, he says, live in peace, agree with one another. God is love, and the peace of Christ will be with you. Greet one another with a holy kiss. He says, All the saints agree to. So we can experience the presence of the Trinity, this communion, to the extent that we learn to love God and we learn to love each other. Are we persons of communion? Are we men and women, children of God that seek peace and unity? The Holy Father, Pope Leo, keeps talking about this over and over again, but very few people are listening, especially in the world, especially in a lot of the media, because people want to create division because that's what sells. So there's all sorts of things. People putting spins on a different spin on what he's saying, rather than listening to what the Holy Father speaks of. And he's reminding us, he's calling us back to the essentials and calling us back to recognize this great mystery of God's love that's being offered to us and for the grace to be able to receive it. You know, as a good Augustinian Pope, he reminds us that our hearts will be restless until they rest in God. God is a trinity of persons, and we ask the Lord for a deeper understanding of this so we can live this reality not only between our relationship with God, but also with those around us in the mystical body of Christ. Let us now stand and offer up our sign of our faith by reciting the Apostles' Creed. I believe in God the Father Almighty, creator of heaven and earth, and in Jesus Christ, his only Son, our Lord, who is conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died, and was buried. He descended into hell. On the third day he rose again from the dead. He ascended into heaven and is seated at the right hand of God the Father Almighty. From there he will come to judge the living and the dead. I believe in the Holy Spirit, the Holy Catholic Church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and life everlasting. Amen. Let us bring our prayers to God, who is Father, Son, Holy Spirit, who created earth and all its fullness. For the Holy Catholic Church, as it continues to speak out against all that would destroy human dignity, human rights, and human life, we pray to the Lord. For those whose lives are plagued with doubt and despair, that they may have the help of God's grace, we pray to the Lord. For those who are seeking to know the true face of God, we ask the Holy Spirit to reveal to them the heart of the Father and the Son. We pray to the Lord. For all of those in our daily TV Mass Prayer Intentions book, we pray to the Lord. Throughout this month of May, our community prays to follow the example of Mary by offering joy, compassion, and mercy, especially to mothers, grandmothers, and all who lovingly serve those in need. We pray to the Lord. God of heaven and earth, you reward those with clean hands and pure hearts, and our unworthiness we bring our prayers to you through Christ our Lord. Sanctify by the invocation of your name, we pray, O Lord our God, the sublation of our service, and by it make of us an eternal offering to you, 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, for with your only begotten Son and the Holy Spirit, you are one God, one Lord, not in the unity of a single person, but in a trinity of one substance. For what you have revealed to us of your glory, we believe equally of your Son and of the Holy Spirit, so that in the confessing of the true and eternal Godhead, you might be adored in what is proper to each person, their unity and substance, and their equality and majesty. And for this is praised by angels and archangels, cherubim and seraphim, we never cease to cry out each day, as with one voice we acclaim.

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Holy, holy, holy Lord, God of hosts, heaven and earth are full of your glory. Hosanna in the blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord. Hosanna in the 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 dewful, 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 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 brother. 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, 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 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, will bless Joseph, our 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. 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 for ever and ever. 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 Saviour, Jesus Christ.

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For the given the power and the glory of 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 our 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. Let us offer each other the sign of peace. Peace.

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

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Blessed are those called to the supper of a lamb.

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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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Through Christ our Lord. The Lord be with you. May Almighty God bless you. The Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Go in peace.

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