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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.
In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. The grace and peace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of the Father, the friendship of the Holy Spirit be with you all. Welcome to the celebration of the Daily TV Mass. I'm Father Michael Coots. Today we celebrate the Feasts of St. John of Capistrano.
The televising of this Mass is made possible by a contribution from a family from the parish of St. Clement in Etobicoke, Ontario. The Mass is being offered for God's blessings on their children and granddaughter, and also for all children that they may remain close to God in prayer and in the practice of faith and for world peace.
Our thanks to Adona for making it possible for tens of thousands across Canada, the USA, and around the world to share in this celebration. We ask St. John Capistrano to intercede for us before the throne of God. 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. May Almighty God have mercy on us, forgive us our sins, and bring us to everlasting life. Amen. Let us pray. O God, who raised St. John of Capistrano to comfort your faithful people in tribulation, place us under your safe protection and keep your church in everlasting peace 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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A reading from the letter of Paul to the Ephesians. I, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to lead a life worthy of the calling to which you have been called. With all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, making every effort to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.
There is one body and one spirit, just as you were called to the one hope of your calling, one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all, who is above all and through all and in all. The word of the Lord.
Those who have clean hands and pure hearts who do not lift up their souls to white is force Lord this is the people that owns to receive They will receive blessing from the Lord and vindication from the God of their salvation. Such is the company of those who seek him, who seek the face of the God of Jacob.
Blessed are you, Father, Lord of Heaven death You have revealed to little ones the mysteries of thy kingdom Aleluia.
A reading from the Holy Gospel according to Luke. Jesus said to the crowds, When you see a cloud rising in the west, you immediately say, It is going to rain, and so it happens. And when you see the south wind blowing, you say, There will be scorching heat, and it happens. You hypocrites, you know how to interpret the appearance of earth and sky.
Why do you not know how to interpret the present time? Why do you not judge for yourselves what is right? Thus, when you go with your accuser before the magistrate on the way, make an effort to settle the case, or you may be dragged before the judge, and the judge hand you over to the officer, and the officer throw you in prison.
I tell you, you will not get out until you have paid the very last penny. The gospel of the Lord. Paul is at Athens, he can sail to Patmos and then to Ephesus and say goodbye. But Paul wants, when he is in Athens, to be in Jerusalem at the time of Pentecost. And he knows that he will never be in Jerusalem at Pentecost if he has to spend some time at Ephesus saying goodbye to all his friends.
He had eaten with them, he had worked with them, he had prayed with them, he had set up the church. So he calls the elders of Ephesus to come down to the port of Miletus. And then there are a lot of tears, because both the elders and Paul know that they are not going to see each other in this life again.
And so Paul will go down to Jerusalem, he will be put in prison, and finally sent to Rome, where he is under house arrest. It is four years later, the year 62 of the year of the Lord, Anno Domini. And he writes a letter to the Ephesians, knowing exactly that he is writing to a group of believers who are both Gentiles and Jewish backgrounds.
They are people who have one faith. They believe in keeping the commandments. They believe in the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. They believe in the breaking of bread. That is the way the Mass that you and I are celebrating today was called in those days. And yet there was some distinction among them.
And that thing carries on even till today. Only last month I was at the installation of Father Joby at St. Isaac Jokes Parish, which is just about two kilometers from here. And I looked at the congregation, they were one in mind and heart. They sang beautifully, they prayed beautifully, and then time for communion came.
And some insisted on receiving communion standing up, others insisted on receiving communion kneeling down. Some received communion in their hands, others insisted on receiving it on their tongue. Still others would not go to anybody but the priest, not to the Eucharistic ministry, not to the deacon.
And I said, these are the people, as Paul would say in the letter to the Ephesians, one faith, one Lord, one baptism. And yet they were so diverse in so many places. And Paul would write to the people of Ephesus to be in one in mind and heart. And then that very evening I sat down with my fellow Jesuits.
We had 12 of us, all 12 happened to be there at supper. And I looked around and I began to choke because eight out of the twelve of us had been priests for over 50 years. They were novice masters, they were superiors, they were liturgists, they were teachers. They were great and wonderful men. And I looked at them and I said, they remind me of a Snickers bar.
A lot of chocolates with a few nuts thrown in, nuts that could get under my skin. And yet we were of one mind and one heart. How do we keep that unity together? Paul said to the people of Ephesus, he says, You are Gentiles and you are Jewish background, but both of you believe in Jesus Christ. And then the Christians who had Jewish backgrounds said, you know, to be a real Christian, you have to keep the Torah, you have to keep the Sabbath, you have to keep the circumcision.
And the Gentile Christians said, No problem, we will keep the commandments because that's what we are bound to do. We will obey and observe the Sabbath, but when it came to circumcision, we're going to draw the line. We don't need that. And Paul would speak about the first council of the church in Jerusalem.
And you read that in chapter 15 of the Acts of the Apostles, where they said, We don't want to burden you with anything more than being united in one mind and heart. And the few instructions that they gave were all to do with dietary obligations. They said, you don't have to be circumcised in order to belong to the Church of Jesus Christ.
And so said, so done. And Paul advises them look, you are all of one mind and one heart. You'll should be able to agree and to disagree, because you are embedded in Jesus Christ. You are one in the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. And that is all that matters. And he kept on saying, as we read in the letter to the Ephesians, one, one, one all the time, one faith, one Lord, one baptism, one in union of mind and heart.
When we come to the gospel, it is an enigmatic type of gospel. Jesus seems to speak about the weather, and then he comes down into taking care of our own moral life. He says, if a wind blows from the south, if a wind blows from the west, you know what type of weather you get. And we have that saying even in our ordinary everyday language, when we said, red sky in the morning, sailors take warning.
Red sky at night, sailors delight. They knew exactly from the looking at the sky what type of weather they had. But Jesus takes that call from discerning the weather to discerning how you and I should live in our everyday life. And so often I say to myself, you know, what nobody sees and what nobody knows, who cares?
I can do what I want. And the answer is no, I don't do what I want. There is between me, within myself, I don't need Google, I don't need Chat GBT, I don't need books to teach me. My own conscience tells me what I have done is either sinful or pleasant and right in the sight of God. And if I try to bluff myself, I will get that virtual Irish slap across the side of my head and say, don't kid yourself, don't bluff yourself.
Because that is exactly what hypocrisy means. It's to put on a great face as if you're doing the right thing, but deep down within it, you know exactly who and what you are. And so Jesus tells us, if you can do that and you can judge the sky and the weather around you, you should be able to discern when things come and face you whether you need to reach out and help people.
And so he gave that beautiful parable of the Good Samaritan, where people thought, okay, I have to be pure, I have to be out of quarantine, so I won't deal with this issue. You hypocrite. It means you and me, because the church is built on our foundation, our faith, because we are the same baptism as Peter, James, John, and the other 12 apostles.
May God bless you all as we continue to look after what is deep down within our hearts, our conscience telling us this is what you have to do. God bless you all. Join me now as we pray together. For all those in our daily TV Mass Prayer Intention book, we pray to the Lord. Let us pray that during this month of the Rosary, families may gather in prayer, finding in it a source of strength, unity, and love for their daily lives.
We pray to the Lord. For the sponsors of this Mass, the family from St. Clement's Parish in Etobigo, Ontario, that the Lord may bless them, bless their children and their granddaughter. We pray to the Lord.
Lord, hear our prayer.
For Pope Leo's intention for the month of October, for collaboration between different religious traditions, we pray to the Lord. Loving and gracious God, through the intercession of St. John Capistrano, we make this prayer to you, our Heavenly Father, in union with the Son and the Holy Spirit, God, forever and ever.
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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.
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The mystery of this wine and water. May we come 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.
Blessed be God forever.
Lord God, be pleased to accept these gifts that we offer to you with humble and contrite heart. Wash away my iniquities and cleans me for my sins. Almighty ever living God, who have made this made sacred this day, rejoicing at the glorification of Saint John of Capistrano, graciously grant that we may strive always to keep and put into practice the faith which with unquenchable zeal he strove to proclaim.
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. He 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 on the festival of St.
John of Capistrano, 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.
How in the highest. Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.
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 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.
In a similar way, when supper was ended, he took the chalice and once more giving thanks, 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.
For by your Christ and resurrection you have set us.
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 all those who yearn for you. Remember also our brothers and sisters 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, that with the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of God, with Blessed Joseph her spouse, with the blessed apostles, with Saint John of Capistrano, 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 for ever and ever. 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, and 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, the power, and the glory are yours now and forever.
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. Graciously grant a peace and unity in accordance with your will, who live and reign forever and ever. Amen. 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.
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.
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 and all our dear ones unto life everlasting.
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.
By the power of this mystery, O Lord, confirm your servants in the true faith, that they may everywhere profess in word and deed the faith for which Blessed John of Capistrano never ceased to labor and for which he spent his whole life through Christ our Lord. The Lord be with you.
And in your spirit.
May Almighty God bless you, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Amen. Go in the peace of Christ to love and serve the Lord and one another.
Thanks be to God.
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