ANNOUNCER:
From the St. Ignatius Chapel at the Manresa Jesuit Spiritual
Renewal Centre in Pickering, Ontario. The National Catholic
Broadcasting Council presents The Daily TV Mass. 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. CONGREGATION:
And with your spirit. Welcome to the celebration
of the Daily Televised Mass. I am Fr. Michael Coutts. The televising of this Mass
is made possible by the contributions
from three donors. The first are Thomas
and Susan D'Souza, from Dubai, and their children,
Savina and Shane D'Souza from Melbourne, Australia, in loving memory on
the first death anniversary of their mother and grandmother,
Rita Platel, who passed away
in Mysore, India, on September 10, 2020, and for the intentions
of her nine children and their families.
May her soul, and the souls of other departed
family members, continue to rest in peace
with the Lord. Amen. The second are Trevor
and Jennifer Anderson from St. Catharines, Ontario, for Maria and David Anderson
of Melbourne, Australia, who are celebrating their
Golden Wedding Anniversary and for the intentions
of their children, grandchildren,
and great-grandchildren. Also, birthday blessings
and wishes for Maria. The third is Joyce Soares from Palm Beach Gardens,
Florida, in memory of her husband Jerry, loving father, grandfather
and great-grandfather, who passed away one year ago
on September 5 and for the deceased members of
the Soares and Goff families. Our thanks go out to
the sponsors of this mass. As we celebrate this Eucharist on this Feast of St. Nicholas
of Tolentino, we ask the Lord to grant us
the grace to come closer to Him through this sacrament
of the Eucharist. You were sent to heal
the contrite of heart. Lord, have mercy. CONGREGATION:
Lord, have mercy. FR. MICHAEL COUTTS:
You came to call sinners. Christ, have mercy. CONGREGATION:
Christ, have mercy. FR. MICHAEL COUTTS:
You are seated at the right hand of the Father
to intercede for us. Lord, have mercy. CONGREGATION:
Lord, have mercy. May Almighty God
have mercy on us. Forgive us our sins and bring us
to everlasting life. - CONGREGATION: Amen.
- Let us pray. O God, who caused the minds
of the faithful to unite in a single purpose, grant Your
people to love what you command and to desire what you promised that amidst the uncertainties
of this world, our hearts may be fixed
on that place where true gladness is found
through our Lord Jesus Christ, Your Son, who lives
and reigns with You in the unity of the Holy Spirit. God forever and ever. CONGREGATION:
Amen. A reading from the first letter
of Paul to Timothy. From Paul,
an Apostle of Christ Jesus by the command
of God our saviour and of Christ Jesus our hope, to Timothy,
my loyal child in the faith. Grace, mercy, and peace
from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord. I am grateful
to Christ Jesus our Lord who has strengthened me, because He judged me faithful and appointed me to His service. Even though I was formerly
a blasphemer, a persecutor
and a man of violence, but I received mercy because I had acted ignorantly
in unbelief and the grace of our Lord
overflowed for me with the faith and love that
are in Christ Jesus. The word of the Lord. CONGREGATION:
Thanks be to God. # (Organ playing) # # Protect me, O Lord # # For in You I take refuge # # I say to the LORD, # # You are my Lord # # I have no good # # Apart from You # # The Lord is
my chosen portion # # And my cup, # # You hold my lot # # I bless the Lord # # Who gives me council # # In the night also
my heart instructs me # # I keep the Lord always
before me # # Because He is at
my right hand # # I shall not be moved # # You show me the path of life # # In your presence there
is fullness of joy # # In Your right hand # # Are pleasures forevermore # # (Organ playing) # # Hallelujah # # Hallelujah # # Your word, O Lord, is truth # # Make us holy in the truth # # Hallelujah # (Throat clearing) The Lord be with you. CONGREGATION:
And with your spirit. A reading from the Holy Gospel
according to Luke. CONGREGATION:
Glory to You, O Lord. Jesus told His disciples
a parable. Can a blind person guide
a blind person? Will not both fall into a pit? A disciple is not above
the teacher, but everyone
who is fully qualified, will be like a teacher. Why do you see the speck
in your neighbour's eye, but do not notice the log
in your own eye? Or how can you say
to your neighbour, 'Friend, let me take out
the speck in your eye,' when you, yourself, do not see
the log in your own eye? You hypocrite! First, take the log out
of your own eye, then you will see clearly
to take the speck out of your neighbour's eye. The gospel of the Lord. CONGREGATION: Praise to You,
Lord Jesus Christ. 15 years after the resurrection and after his own conversion, Paul was on a missionary journey
in Asia Minor. He had gone through Antioch,
Iconium, Lystra, and Derbe. And in Lystra,
he found two wonderful women, mother and grandmother,
Eunice and Lois. And they were faithful
Christians accepted, they were of Jewish origin. Eunice, however,
was married to a gentile and she had a son called Timothy and because you had
a non-kosher Jew over there, Timothy was baptized. Now, about seven years later,
Paul is coming through, and he finds Timothy
as a fine young man. Stable and very mature and he takes him along as
his companion on his journeys and how useful Timothy
was when they went to Philippi and Beroea and Thessalonica. Timothy was always there
when Paul was being persecuted, Timothy would be left behind
to confirm the Christians, to console them,
to instruct them. In our letter today
that we have. The first reading,
the letter to Timothy. Timothy now is the overseer of a small community at Ephesus. The word "overseer"
in Greek is "episcopus," so he was the Bishop of Ephesus. Now, let us come from Timothy
to our present day. Recently, I was at
a prayer meeting in a parish I will not name and as I heard people sharing
and teaching about how Christ had taught them,
my hair stood on edge, because there was some of the
stuff was really heretical. But the point was,
it was in a small group and most of the times
I do not correct people, because they speak
about wrong things, because as long as they live out
their lives correctly, as long as they live
their lives loving and caring for their neighbour
and they don't teach anybody, they're not doing any harm. So, if they think
that St. Anthony is greater than Jesus Christ,
I'm not going to confuse them at this stage in their life. Most of them are
pretty well established, but this gentleman
when I heard him, I said, "For goodness sake, who taught you all of this that
you're sharing with others?" He says,
"I don't need any teacher. All I did was to take
the four gospels and I got all my teaching
from there. I've got no time for
the Old Testament, I've got no time
for the Vatican Councils. First, second, third,
I don't care." And I said, "Well, tell me
something about this Jesus Christ that you love
and that you are preaching." "Well," he said,
"Jesus Christ was divine." And I said, "What about
His passion, death, and resurrection?" He says, "Oh, that's incidental. It really does not matter
whether He was--" I said, "Then how are you going
to be saved?" And he says, "Well, I can save
myself with my prayer, with my penance,"
and I just shook my head in utter disbelief.
You know, way back in the third
and fourth century, we had a heretic called Arius who did not care about whether Jesus was divine or human. All he cared about was
the divinity of Christ. And then you had Pelagius
a century later and he believed that he could
save himself. He really didn't need anything
about Jesus Christ. Arius was condemned in
the council of Nicaea. Pelagius was condemned in the Council of Ephesus. And as one of
my professors taught me, he said, "Most of us are
semi-Pelagians. We believe that we can achieve
our own salvation." Now, these are the things
that Paul would speak to much before Arius and Pelagius. He said, "Be very careful. You as a bishop be very careful
that there is no false teaching hand down to your people
in Ephesus what you have received
from the apostles. Don't add anything,
don't subtract anything. And there are going to be
a lot of people with false information. Be sure to be firm
and correct them." The second advice that he gave
him as the bishop, the overseer of Ephesus was,
he says, "This church has been built on
the faith, on the love, on the tradition of the elders that have worked there
from the beginning. So, make sure that you treat
them with honour, with respect, and with dignity." And the third thing he says, "Look, you're a young person and
there will be the presbyters, the other priests around you who will be telling you how
to run things. Be gentle and firm with them, but do not let the fact that you
are young to intimidate you." And I can relate to Timothy. When I was appointed here as
director in 2013, every Tom, Dick, and Harry in
the Jesuit Order who I knew around me came to
tell me how to run this place as if to say I've just come out
of a shell. Many of them had never given
retreats in their lives, but they knew all the answers, but they didn't know
what the questions were. And so, the story of people
trying to tell other people how to do things
was very sensible of Paul telling Timothy,
"Listen to them, but do what the spirit
inspires you." And that is a letter to Timothy. Though actually, the reading
that we had today had more to do with
what Paul himself did as an apostle, as a proclaimer of the gospel. And he said, "You know what?
I lived a life on the wild side. I blasphemed,
I persecuted the church, I went around and did things
that were sinful, but the beauty is
that God does not take care of what your past is. He's only looking forward. Are you willing to change
on the journey? Are you willing to follow
the path of the Lord? Are you willing to get away
from sinners and from scorners
and from false teachers? If that is what
your main purpose is in life, then you are okay, which gives
us great hope indeed, because most of us are so afraid
of proclaiming the gospel, because we say we haven't gone
to any theology classes, but we have been taught the
proper things by our parents and grandparents,
by our teachers in school. We've got the Catholic Catechism
that we can consult. And people do that. Every now and then,
you'll get somebody who is way off track,
but that should not bother us. We know what is right.
Be firm as Paul tells Timothy. And therefore,
Jesus and the gospel today says the same thing. Be sure
that you know what your faith is if you are going
to be a good teacher. Know your facts properly, read, and if you do not know,
ask authorities and there are people
all around us and the beauty is that nowadays,
even lay people are studying theology and they
are well-aware of the facts. St. Paul's letter to Timothy
and Jesus' lesson to us to be careful in what we teach are so very valid today. God bless you all. Let us pray for all those in our daily televised
mass community who are dedicated
to the care of the sick. May they receive the grace
to continue their ministry of compassion and caring
with hope and joy, we pray to the Lord. CONGREGATION:
Lord, hear our prayer. For Pope Francis,
for our bishops, for our parish priests
who continue to keep us on the straight
and narrow to teach us the facts
of the life of Jesus in a true and orthodox manner,
we pray to the Lord. CONGREGATION:
Lord, hear our prayer. In thanksgiving to God
for all our catechism teachers, for our parents
who took so much trouble to lead us in the path
of the Lord. We pray to the Lord. CONGREGATION:
Lord, hear our prayer. For our sponsors
of our mass today, that the Lord may bless them
and answer their prayers. We pray to the Lord. CONGREGATION:
Lord, hear our prayer. Loving and gracious God, we bring all
these prayers to You. Those made a loud, those still
unuttered in our hearts. Through Christ our Lord. CONGREGATION:
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. CONGREGATION:
Blessed be God forever. Through the mystery
of this wine, and water, may we 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 this wine we offer, fruit of the vine
and work of human hands. It will become for us
our spiritual drink. CONGREGATION:
Blessed be God forever. Lord God, be pleased
to accept these gifts that we offer to You with humble
and with contrite hearts. Lord, wash away my inequities
and cleanse me from my sins. Pray my sisters, my brothers
that my sacrifice and yours be acceptable to God,
the Almighty Father. CONGREGATION:
May the Lord accept the sacrifice at your hands for the praise and glory
of God's name, for our good and the good
of all His Holy Church. Lord, who gained for Yourself
a people by adoption through the one sacrifice
offered once for all. Bestow graciously on us
the gifts of unity and peace in Your church
through Christ our Lord. CONGREGATION:
Amen. The Lord be with you. CONGREGATION:
And with your spirit. Lift up your hearts. CONGREGATION:
We lift them up to the Lord. Let us give thanks
to the Lord, our God. CONGREGATION:
It is right and just. It is truly right and just,
our duty and our salvation. Always and everywhere to give
You thanks, Father, most holy. Through Your beloved Son,
Jesus Christ, Your word through whom
You made all things. Whom You send as our saviour
and redeemer incarnate by the Holy Spirit
and born of the Virgin Mary. Fulfilling Your will and gaining
for You a holy people, Jesus stretched out His hands as
He endured His passion and so, to break
the bonds of debt that manifest His resurrection. And so, with all the angels
and all the saints, we declare glory as
with one voice we acclaim. # (Organ playing) # # Holy, Holy, # # Holy Lord # # God of hosts # # Heaven and Earth are full # # Of your glory # # Hosanna in the highest # # Hosanna in the highest # # Blessed is he who comes # # In the name of the Lord # # Hosanna in the highest # # Hosanna in the highest # You are indeed Holy, O Lord. The fount of all holiness. Make holy, therefore,
these gifts we pray. - (Chimes ringing)
- By sending down Your spirit upon them like
the dewfall 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." (Chimes ringing) 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." (Chimes ringing) # The mystery of faith # # (Organ playing) # # When we eat this bread # # And drink this cup, # # We proclaim Your death,
O Lord, # # Until You come again # Therefore, as we celebrate
the memory... 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 Francis, our Pope, Thomas, our Bishop,
the bishops across Canada, and this entire people of God. 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 blessed Joseph,
her spouse, with the blessed apostles,
with St. Jean de Brebeuf, St. Isaac Jogues
and our Canadian martyrs, 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. (Throat clearing) # Through Him and with Him
and in Him # (Coughing)
# O God, Almighty Father # # In the unity
of the Holy Spirit # # All glory
and honour is Yours # # Forever and ever # SINGER:
# Amen # # Amen # # Amen # At the Saviour's command and formed 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 and safe from all distress
as we await the blessed hope and the coming of our Saviour,
Jesus Christ. CONGREGATION:
For the kingdom, the power, and the glory are Yours,
now and forever. (Throat clearing) 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." CONGREGATION:
Amen. Peace of the Lord
be with you always. CONGREGATION:
And with your spirit. Where ever we are, let us share
a sign of peace. # (Organ playing) # # Lamb of God # # You take away the sins
of the world # # Have mercy on us # # Lamb of God # # You take away the sins
of the world # # Have mercy on us # # Lamb of God # # You take away the sins
of the world # # Grant us peace # 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 all
to everlasting life. Amen. (Chimes ringing) ANNOUNCER: Please join me now in
this act of spiritual communion. Let us pray. Complete within us, O Lord, the healing work of Your mercy and graciously perfect
and sustain us, so that in all things,
we might please You. Through Christ, our Lord. CONGREGATION:
Amen. The Lord be with you. CONGREGATION:
And with your spirit. May Almighty God bless you. The Father, the Son,
and the Holy Spirit. CONGREGATION:
Amen. The mass has been celebrated. Go now in the peace of Christ. CONGREGATION:
Thanks be to God. ANNOUNCER:
Our thanks to our donors for the gift of this Mass. # (Organ playing) # # Fairest Lord Jesus # # Lord of all creation # # Jesus of God # # And Man # # The Son # # Thee will I cherish # # Thee will I honour # # Thou, my soul #
FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 10, 2021
FIRST READING
1 Timothy 1.1-2, 12-14 of Friday September 10, 2021
From Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the command of God our Saviour and of Christ Jesus our hope, To Timothy, my loyal child in the faith: Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.
I am grateful to Christ Jesus our Lord, who has strengthened me, because he judged me faithful and appointed me to his service, even though I was formerly a blasphemer, a persecutor, and a man of violence. But I received mercy because I had acted ignorantly in unbelief, and the grace of our Lord overflowed for me with the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus.
PSALM
Psalm 16 of Friday September 10, 2021
Protect me, O God, for in you I take refuge. I say to the Lord, “You are my Lord; I have no good apart from you.” The Lord is my chosen portion and my cup; you hold my lot. R.
I bless the Lord who gives me counsel; in the night also my heart instructs me. I keep the Lord always before me; because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved. R.
You show me the path of life. In your presence there is fullness of joy; in your right hand are pleasures forevermore. R.
GOSPEL
Luke 6.39-42 of Friday September 10, 2021
Jesus told his disciples a parable: “Can a blind person guide a blind person? Will not both fall into a pit? A disciple is not above the teacher, but everyone who is fully qualified will be like the teacher. Why do you see the speck in your neighbour’s eye, but do not notice the log in your own eye? Or how can you say to your neighbour, ‘Friend, let me take out the speck in your eye,’ when you yourself do not see the log in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your neighbour’s eye.”
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