Daily TV Mass Tuesday June 9, 2026

Fr. Henk van Meijel, S.J.

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 Daily TV Mass.

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Welcome to the celebration of the Daily TV Mass. I'm Father Hank van Meyel. The televising of this Mass is made possible by the contribution from three donors. The first are the Sisters of the Holy Name of Jesus and Mary from Winnipeg, Manitoba, for all their sisters and associates and all who partner with them in their mission of education and service to those on the margins, in gratitude for blessings received and for peace in a wounded world. The second is Edmundo and Caroline Bannis from Scarborough, Ontario, in Thanksgiving for all graces and blessings received, and in the celebration of the 50th wedding anniversary on June the 20th, for healing of Edmundo's families, family members, the PHB and the SOSA members, and the 1968 UST Nursing Alumni, and for the living and deceased members of the Lacia and Bernis families. The third are Maria and Jesus Bahina from Houston, Texas, in memory of their parents, Dolores and Vincent D. Areis and Olivia and Thomas Bahina. May they rest in peace in Thanksgiving for abundant blessings received, for the intentions of their children, Andreas and Christina Bahina, for world peace and for the soul of Pope Francis. May you rest in peace. Or thanks to our donors for the gift of this Mass. In the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, Amen. The peace of the Lord be with you.

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And with your spirit.

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And as we have placed ourselves before the Lord on this Tuesday, again recalling our own weakness, our own need of God's guidance, just like Deacon Ephraim needed so many centuries ago. You were sent to heal the contrite of heart. 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. May Almighty God have mercy on us, forgive us our sins, and bring us to everlasting life. And let us pray. Pour into our hearts, O Lord, we pray, the Holy Spirit, at whose prompting the deacon Saint Ephraim exalted in singing of your mysteries, and from whom he received the strength to serve you alone. True, O Lord, Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God for ever and ever.

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Amen. A reading from the first book of Kings. After a while, the wadi where Elijah was hiding dried up, because there was no rain in the land. Then the word of the Lord came to him, saying, Go now to Saripath, which belongs to Sidon, and live there. For I have commanded a widow where to feed you. So he went out and went to Saripath. When he came to the gate of the town, a widow was there gathering sticks. He called to her and said, Bring me a little water in a vessel so that I may drink. But she said, As the Lord your God lives, I have nothing baked, only a handful of meal in a jar, and a little oil in a jug. I am now gathering a couple of sticks so that I may go home and prepare it for myself and my son, that we may eat it and die. Elijah said to her, Do not be afraid. Go and do as you have said, but first make me a little cake of it and bring it to me, and afterwards, make something for yourself and your son. For thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, the jar of meal will not be emptied, and the jug of oil will not fail until the day that the Lord sends rain on the earth. She went and did as Elijah said, so that she as well and he and her household ate for many days. The jar of milk was not emptied, neither did the jug of oil fail, according to the word of the Lord that he spoke by Elijah. The word of the Lord.

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Answer me when I call, O God of my right. You gave me room when I was in distress. Be gracious to me and hear my prayer. How long you people shall my honour suffer shame? How long will you love vain words and seek after lives? The Lord hears when I call to him. When you are disturbed, do not sell.

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The gospel of the Lord. Very short reading, but it's so powerful. And it's right, this little short reading is right after the Beatitudes in the Sermon of the Mount. And it's really actually a warning, I would say, a warning to live good lives. And it's a little uh salt does not lose its saltiness. But Jesus is trying to make a point that don't lose your flavor, and especially as a Christian, and to be that light for others. It's so important. And it is so important, especially when we have children, to be that light. So many so often parents come and lament actually that the children don't go to church and so on, especially adult children, that they have uh walked away from the church. And now I'm not criticizing any parent, but the thing too is we have to so be so aware. St. Francis of Assisi uh a saying attributed to him, evangelize by the way you live. And if you really have to use words, we can use all the words we want to, but if we don't live pure lives, people see that, and especially little children. Little children see exactly their parents what they're doing. And if little if parents, if they are critical of the church, or they and they complain about the church, if parents are not honest with money, or they gossip, or or all these other things, uh, and and are not helpful of the neighbor, they don't give to the community. Little children see that and they internalize that. And in time they might even say to a parent, what what a hypocrite you are. And I've parents have come to me and said that, what a hypocrite you are. You go to church every Sunday and you preach that we have to be good, but look at your own life. And basically it's thrown back at them. And so we have lost our saltiness. And so, but to be that light of others, to be a if we are a light, we can be a light for what shines out to others, and it's so important to be that and and and to especially in our society. We're living in a pluralistic society. We live here in the Toronto area, uh, where there are so many different faith traditions, and so it's and so many different opinions, and the way we can live our lives. But it is so easy to also fall away from the church if we don't educate ourselves and if we do not live pure lives. And it really starts with each one of us taking that personal inventory and doing the right thing. Today we celebrate uh Saint Ephraim. He was a deacon uh in today's Turkey actually. He was the founder of the school of this Nimbistis. Uh, it was a place of learning. St. Ephrin, who was just a deacon, and he uh he can be compared to uh in the Syriacic, in the Eastern Syriatic Church as the same as St. Augustine in the Western Church. He left a great shadow of his teachings. St. Augustine, of course, is so well known in our church, in our history, and all his writing, but he was the same for the Syriatic Church, a light for others. He uh he was not a priest, a deacon, and he was really a theologian, uh philosopher, he knew medicine, he wrote poems, he wrote music, and he really lived very much defended the church in in his time and especially in his time in the fourth century, the time of the Council of Nicaea, when when it was decided that Jesus had two natures, uh one fully human and one fully divine. And so he lived in a time from Arianism, uh, Arianism who said that Jesus is not divine but is fully human, moral prophet. Or Muslim friends will see Jesus that way. And there were all the Gnostics and the people who honored the Greek gods and the Roman gods and so on. And he lived in the kind of the same kind of environment as we live in today, with so many different voices. And that's why it's so utmost important that we live of faith to the fullest, and that we are a sign for others, and and and to yeah, to be a sign for others and not to be afraid. And in the first reading again, we have uh Elijah, that long reading of how he went to the to the widow in Serafat, where I see the great miracle of multiplying uh food, of the jar of meal and the jar of oil will not go empty during this famine, and there will be food for everyone. And he, the the widow in Seraphat, actually was not a non-believer, she was not a Jew, she was from a different religious tradition, and yet she listened to Elijah, because Elijah was that light which you can't put on the bushel basket, a light for all to see. And this is our task too as religious, as people of belief, that we are a light for everyone, for our children, for our neighbors, for all for our spouses and so on. Amen. So let us bring our prayers before the Lord. We pray for all those in the daily TV Mass Prayer Intention Book. 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, let us pray for healing in families, that Christ's mercy may renew our hearts and restore our relationships. We pray to the Lord.

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Lord, hear our prayer.

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With Pope Leo, we pray this month that sports be an instrument of peace, encounter, and dialogue among cultures and nations, and that they provide value, promote values such as respect, solidarity, and personal growth. We pray to the Lord. We pray that parents and grandparents set good examples for their children and grandchildren by living clean and honest lives. We pray to the Lord. Lord hear our prayer and for these prayers and the prayers in the silence of our own hearts, we lift them up to you, Lord. Amen. Blessed are you, Lord God of all creation, for through your goodness we have received the 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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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 have received 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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Humble spirit and contrite heart, may we be accepted by you, O Lord, and may your sacrifice in your sight this day be pleasing to you, Lord God. Wash me, O Lord, from my iniquities, cleanse me of my sins. Thank you. Pray, my sisters and brothers, that my sacrifice and yours may be acceptable to God the Almighty Father. May the sacrifice which we gladly present on the feast day of blessed Ephron be pleasing to you, O God, for taught by Him we too give ourselves entirely to you in praise through Christ our Lord.

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Amen.

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The Lord be with you.

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And with your spirit.

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Lift up your hearts.

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Lift them up to the Lord.

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Let us give thanks to the Lord our God.

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It is right and just.

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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, through Christ our Lord. For as on the festival of Saint Ephron, you bid your church rejoice, so too you strengthen her by the example of his holy life, teach her by his words of preaching, and keep her safe in answer to his prayers. And so, with the company of angels and saints, we sing the hymn of your praise, as without end we acclaim.

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Holy, holy, holy heart, God of lost, heaven and earth are father of your glory. O Sadhigh in the highest. Blessed is he who comes in the name of the heart.

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You are indeed holy, O Lord, the fount of all holiness. Make holy therefore these guests we pray, by sending down your spirit upon them like the dofoe, 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 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 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.

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Proclaim your death for 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 challenge 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 or Pope, Francis or Bishop, the Order Bishops, the clergy, and the entire people you have called your own. Remember also our sisters and brothers 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 the Blessed 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, O glory and honor is yours for ever and ever. Amen. And at the Savior's command and formed by divine teaching, we dare to say, O Father, who are in heaven, hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day your daily bread and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespassed 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. 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 our peace and unity in accordance with your will, who live and reign for ever and ever. Amen. The peace of the Lord be with you always and let us offer each other a sign of peace.

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Have mercy on us love you take away the sins of the world.

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Behold the Lamb of God, behold him who takes away the sins of the world. Blessed are those called to the supper of the Lamb. Lord I am not your leader that you should enter on the mind, but only Savior and my soul shall be a.

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Amen.

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Through Christ the teacher, O Lord, instruct those who feed with Christ the living bread, that on the feast day of Blessed Ephraim they may learn your truth your truth and express it in works of charity. Through Christ, O Lord. The Lord be with you.

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And with your spirit.

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Amen. Go in peace, glorifying the Lord by your life. Thanks be to God.

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