The Daily TV Mass seeks new ways to honour faith

Toronto Catholic Noel D’Souza, a longtime financial planner, worked with his mother, Marina, to develop a legacy gift plan before she passed away on May 11, 2021.

He helped the longtime teacher donate her RRIF to the Archdiocese of Toronto and ShareLife, and shared his experience soon after with The Catholic Register. D’Souza wrote that his mother was “relieved to know that even in death she would be supporting the Church and its ongoing mission to spread the good news of salvation.”

Another treasured Catholic entity for Marina, her late husband Ferdinand and D'Souza to this day was the Daily TV Mass. This broadcasting institution was deeply meaningful before the COVID-19 pandemic, but it struck a greater chord starting in 2020. People from around the world turned to these streamed celebrations of the liturgy for comfort and strength while parishes were closed. 

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D’Souza decided to offer a living gift for the Daily TV Mass as it comforted his mother, him and hundreds of thousands more believers. He hailed the Catholic Mass as the “greatest source of divine grace,” and said it “became especially apparent during the pandemic that this is something that really needed support so that it could grow and thrive in the coming years.”

The St. Aidan’s Parish congregant continues to watch the streams at least a couple of times a month to this day and has even attended tapings of the broadcast in person on multiple occasions. For D’Souza, the announcement of whom the Mass’ intentions are being offered for is a special moment. 

“It makes it a much more personal (experience),” said D’Souza. “These are our brothers and sisters offering the Mass from communities across Canada.”

The world too. Many people from the United States, Philippines, United Kingdom, India, Nigeria, Australia, Ireland, South America and so many more nations make up the fabric of this worldwide community of prayer.  

Deacon Mike Walsh, the president of the National Catholic Broadcasting Council (NCBC) since 2015, said D’Souza “has been very kind in remembering and supporting” the Daily TV Mass “in honour of his parents and his own faith as well.” 

Hearteningly, many other younger Catholics have approached Walsh over the years to let him know how their parents made the Daily TV Mass a cornerstone of their daily spiritual life. Not only are these intimate 30-minute liturgical celebrations appreciated by Catholics who are homebound, but also by believers dwelling in remote communities with little or no access to priests. 

Walsh is also striving to cultivate support for Daily TV Mass access for incarcerated persons. The co-founder and executive director of Friends of Dismas, a multifaith, non-denominational organization ministering to persons touched by crime, recognizes there is great value in keeping people connected and the transformative, life-rebuilding power in hearing the Gospel.  

Another emerging audience engaging with Daily TV Mass content is “seekers” — men and women, especially young people, trying to reconnect with their faith or discover a faith for the first time. 

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Walsh said the Daily TV Mass’ new YouTube shorts videos have proved particularly effective in engaging with the younger demographic. 

“We’re calling them ‘Homily Moments,’ and it’s been an interesting experience,” said Walsh. “We said, ‘let’s give that a try and see if we can do shorts.' Our YouTube numbers have gone up quite substantially. We were in the 80,000 views a day range and (now) we’re probably closer to 95,000 to 100,0000 a day.”

The Rosary videos are now also being posted daily and garnering a few thousand views. 

Not only is the NCBC tapping into new forms of video content, but 2026 has been notable for how this organization is more deeply engaging with the written word.

Walsh, contributors to the Daily TV Mass and other interested individuals are collaborating on the new “Go in Peace” Substack account. Walsh, Cardinal Emeritus Thomas Collins, Deacon Robert Kinghorn, Sr. Helena Burns, Msgr. Robert Nusca, Fr. Ron Rolheiser and Michael Coutts, S.J are all penning reflections about how to glorify God through your life.  

The hope is for Go in Peace to prove another effective medium to convene followers of Christ from around the world. 

In that spirit, November sees the most beautiful exemplification of how the Daily TV Mass transcends physical borders unfold. Well over 100,000 names of the faithfully departed from across the globe will be memorialized in the Book of Remembrance. A special intention will be offered during the prayers of the faithful for all these persons who have passed away. A special homily was dedicated to them on All Souls’ Day. 

Catholics interested in planned giving to the Daily TV Mass are invited to phone (905) 884-6899 or email [email protected], but Walsh recommended calling as the best avenue to secure a sponsorship of the Daily TV Mass. 

“It is a very personal thing, especially if you want to have Masses said,” Walsh said. “We need to sit and talk about it because all dates are not available. Right now, we have 30 Masses accounted for as a legacy gift. That is kind of what Noel did. He signed up with a one-time gift, and it supports the Mass on an ongoing basis.”

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The need for this Daily TV Mass to grow even further is evident, said Walsh, as demographics continue to trend older throughout Canada. And younger people “can see the day when age is going to be something that won’t allow them to do everything they were doing before, so they want to stay connected.”

Learn more by visiting dailytvmass.com.

(Amundson is an associate editor and writer for The Catholic Register.)

A version of this article appeared in the November 08, 2026 issue of The Catholic Register with the headline "The Daily TV Mass seeks new ways to honour faith".