Daily TV Mass Friday June 5, 2026

Fr. Michael Coutts, S.J.

Transcript

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From the St. Ignatius Chapel at the Manrisa 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. And with your spirit. Welcome to the celebration of this daily TV Mass on the Feast of St. Boniface. I am Father Michael Coots. The televising of this Mass is made possible by a contribution from Gail and Bruce Young from Toronto, Ontario. This Mass is being offered in honor of their parents, Una and Jack MacDonald and Blanche and Victor Young. May their souls and the souls of the faithful departed through the mercy of God rest in peace. Amen. Today we celebrate the feast of St. Boniface, an 8th-century Benedictine monk who became the apostle of Germany and was martyred there. We ask his intercession as we enter into this holy sacrifice of the Mass. Lord Jesus, you are the Prince of Peace. Lord have mercy. Lord Jesus, you are the light to all nations. Christ have mercy. Lord Jesus, you are the salt of the earth. Lord have mercy. Lord have mercy. 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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Let us pray. May the martyr, Saint Boniface, be our advocate, O Lord, that we may firmly hold the faith he taught with his lips and sealed in his blood, and confidently profess it by our deeds. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you, the unity of the Holy Spirit, God forever and ever.

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You have observed my teaching, my conduct, my aim in life, my faith, my patience, my love, my steadfastness, my persecutions and sufferings of the things that happened to me in Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. What persecutions I endured. Yet the Lord rescued me from all of them. Indeed, all who want to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted. But wicked people and imposters will go from bad to worse, deceiving others and being deceived. But as for you, continue in what you have learned and firmly believed, knowing from whom you learned it, and how from childhood you have known the sacred writings that are able to instruct you for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus, all scripture is inspired by God and is useful for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, so that everyone who belongs to God may be proficient, equipped for every good work, the word of the Lord.

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Many are my persecutors and my adversaries, yet I do not serve from your decrees. The sum of your word is truth, and every one of your righteous ordinances endures forever. Princes persecute me without cause But my heart stands in Avi. Nothing can make them start Light Great is the peace for those who love your love I hope for your salvation all light and I fulfil your commandments. I keep your precepts and decrease for all my ways are before you peace for those who love your law who love me will keep my words and my father will love them and we will come to them alleluia The Lord be with you and with your spirit.

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While Jesus was teaching in the temple, he said, How can the scribes say that Christ is the Son of David? David himself, by the Holy Spirit, declared, The Lord said to my Lord, Sit at my right hand until I put your enemies under your feet. David himself calls him Lord. So how can he be his son? And the large crowd was listening to him with delight. The Gospel of the Lord. For the last three days we have been listening to our first reading from the second letter to Timothy. Who was this Timothy? Fourteen years after the resurrection of Christ and Paul's own conversion, his going off to Arabia for three years in silence. What he did there, we don't know. Paul came back and set out on his first missionary journey. He went to Turkey, he started in Antioch on the coast, went down to Iconium, Lystra, and Darby. At Lystra, he found a small Christian community. Actually, he found them in Antioch and Iconium and in Darby as well. A group of probably 15 to 20 Christian families who believed in Jesus Christ, who met in churches and would pray, break bread, celebrate the Eucharist together. Now, when he came here, he found two very devout women. One was Lois or Lewis and her daughter Eunice. Eunice had a son called Timothy. He was a mature man, he was a person of intelligence, and Paul recognized in him here would be a person who could proclaim the good news to the poor. And so he adopted him as his companion as he went up further up north into Turkey and then over to Macedonia. Now Paul was a firebrand. Whenever he proclaimed the good news, just like St. Boniface, five times, I'll say something about him later on. Paul was a firebrand. When he proclaimed that Christ had died, Christ has risen, he should have just stayed with it. But then he would get under the skin of his fellow Jews and the Gentiles to such an extent that they wanted to catch him and beat him. And very often he would have to flee in the middle of the night to avoid prison. He would flee from Philippi, he would flee from Berea, he'd flee from Thessalonica, and he would leave Timothy behind. Timothy was a calm, peaceful man. Young as he was, he was mature, and he managed to pour oil over troubled waters. Now, as they grew older and as Paul continued in his second and third missionary journey and finally was imprisoned in Rome, Timothy was installed as the bishop of Ephesus, a young man. And so Paul from Rome, where he was in prison, would write this letter to Timothy, and he would tell them certain things. Now, some of the scripture scholars say Paul had already died under the Emperor Nero, and it was Paul's disciples who had the style of Paul and wrote to Timothy. It is totally immaterial whether it was Paul or his disciple, because the message to Timothy is quite clear. First of all, we would follow what Jesus Christ said. If you proclaim the good news, you will be brought before rulers, governors, and king. Like Paul was brought before, both a ruler, a governor, and a king. And he told Timothy, you will suffer from persecutions, not only from the Gentiles, but also from within the Jewish community who did not like you to speak about Jesus Christ, Jesus Christ who died and rose from the dead. There was another thing that Paul also mentioned to Timothy. He says, you know, you'll have false teachers who will come and proclaim the good news of Jesus Christ, but give them their own twist. Sometimes they would twist it out of and make it actually false indeed. He says, do not be afraid, teach what was handed down to you from the apostles, teach what is within the tradition. Now, today if somebody came and preached the news which was false, we could easily go to Google, find out a canon law, find out Catholic catechism, and check out and do a checkpoint with it and see whether what they were saying is true. And sometimes what they say is true at the kernel, but when they keep on embellishing it, you finally say, I don't think this is what Jesus Christ actually taught us. This is not the thing that Jesus Christ proclaimed to us. And so Paul would tell Timothy, stick to what the apostles taught you, and stick to the tradition that you had from the time of the apostles. I taught you properly. And then Paul recounts all the things that he himself had suffered. He had suffered shipwrecks, he had suffered plenty, he had suffered starvation, he had suffered things at sea. He said, You may not have to suffer all these things, but be prepared that this persecution would come across. And so here Timothy is the bishop of Ephesus, and his companion Titus would be the bishop of Constantinople. And both of them lived and proclaimed the good news till the end. Now, what did actually Timothy profess? Not very something different from what we are celebrating during this Easter season, namely that Christ died, Christ rose from the dead, and Christ will come and finally one day to judge the living and the dead. The moment they preached these things, for the Jewish people it was a scandal. How can you say that our Messiah, who was going to be a person who would proclaim salvation, would die on the cross as a common criminal? It was a total scandal. For the Gentiles, they were not bothered about whether Jesus was a fulfillment of the Messiah or not. All they were bothered was, is this logically and mentally acceptable? Can we accept this and be sane people? And therefore it was a stumbling block. Because how could you say somebody who was most powerful would die as a criminal? Needless to say, that Timothy proclaimed this in good times and in bad, and people who really accepted it became Christians. As Justin, Saint Justin, whose feast we celebrated on the 1st of June, said, you know, Socrates and Plato and Aristotle were great and logical philosophers, but nobody dies for them. The fact that these Christians would die because they believed that Christ had died and Christ has risen is something that is attractive to me. And therefore he became a Christian. Which brings us to taking things literally or not. And we have that in our gospel today. When Jesus says, you scribes take things absolutely literally. You see the words and you follow it. We have to be very careful in the way we articulate things. A wife sent her husband to the grocery store and said, Get me a jug of milk. And if you see avocados, get me six. The husband came back with six jugs of milk and he said, I saw avocados. He had to be very specific in what he said. And so were the scribes and Pharisees. They took it so literally. And Jesus said, It is important to understand the words of God. But how would David say that Christ was his ancestor, my Lord, and my God, and at the same time say he was a son. He was of some person who would come after him. And so he left them with this corn and rum, and as they could not answer it, he let them to stew in their own juices. This is things what Jesus tells us to do. When we look at the Word of God, we ponder upon them and like Mary ponder things in our heart to see what exactly is the heart of the matter, and then say, like Thomas, my Lord and my God, I believe in what you say. Which brings us to St. Boniface, whose feast we celebrate today. He was a monk from Britain. He was born in Essex, England, and went to Germany. And the first thing he does was to chop down the third tree, which was the tree to the Gentiles. Needless to say, they were so infuriated that they put him to death. He probably wouldn't have died a martyr, he probably would have died a saint all the same, because he was deeply in love with the Lord Jesus Christ and proclaimed his name in season and out of season. God bless you all. Join me now as we pray together. For the Pope's intention in this month of June that sports be an instrument of peace, encounter, and dialogue among cultures and nations, and that they promote values such as respect, solidarity, and personal growth. We pray to the Lord.

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Lord, hear our prayer.

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For the sponsors of today's Daily TV Mass, for Gail and Bruce Young, they were parishioners in Our Lady of Lords for the twelve years I worked there and are still parishioners there today. For the repose of their parents, Una and Jack McDonnell and Blanche and Victor Young, we pray to the Lord.

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Lord, hear our prayer.

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For all those listed in our daily TV Mass Book of Prayer Intentions, we pray to the Lord.

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Lord, hear our prayer.

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During this month of the sacred heart of Jesus, we pray for healing in families. May Christ's mercy renew our hearts and restore our relationships. That we make this prayer through our Lord Jesus Christ, who lives and reigns with the Holy Spirit, to you, our God, forever and ever.

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Amen.

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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. Blessed be God forever. Through the mystery of this wine. And water who may become to share in the divinity of Christ, who humble Himself 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. Lord God, be pleased to accept this 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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May the Lord accept the sacrifice at her hands for the praise and glory of his name, for our good and good of all his holy church.

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Sanctify our offerings by your blessings, O Lord, and by your grace may we be set afire with the flame of your love, through which Saint Boniface overcame every bodily torment. We make this prayer 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 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 are glorified when your saints are praised. Their very sufferings are but wonders of your might. In your mercy you give ardour to their faith. To their endurance you grant firm resolve. In their struggle, the victory is yours through Christ our Lord. Therefore, all creatures of heaven and earth sing a new song in adoration, and we with the hosts of angels cry out and without end we acclaim.

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Blessed is he who comes in the name of the light.

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You are indeed holy, O Lord, the fount of all holiness. Make holy, therefore, these gifts by sending down your spirit upon them like the dew fall, so that they may become for us the body and blood of your Son, 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.

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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, the McDonald's and the young family, and all who have died in your mercy, welcome them into the light of your face. Have mercy on us all that with the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of God, with Blessed Joseph her spouse, with the blessed apostles, with Saint Boniface, 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.

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Amen.

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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, the coming of our Savior, Jesus Christ. 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 this year, Church, and graciously grant a 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 share with one another a sign of this peace and friendship. 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, My soul shall be healed. May the body and blood of Christ bring us an all idea once unto life everlasting. Amen.

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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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Whoever wishes to come after me must deny himself and take up his cross and follow me, says the Lord. Let us pray. May the sacred mysteries of which we have partaken, O Lord, give us that determination which made your blessed martyr Saint Boniface faithful in your service and victorious in suffering through Christ our Lord. The Lord be with you.

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And with your spirit.

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May Almighty God bless you, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Mass has been celebrated. Go in peace.

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Thanks, be the Lord.

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