Celebrate the Jubilee with Pope Leo XIV.
SUNDAY, June 1, 4:30 a.m., live
Jubilee Mass of Families, Children, Grandparents and the Elderly
EWTN Pope Leo XIV will celebrate Mass in St. Peter’s Square and children will receive their first Communion. (Re-airs 7 p.m.)
SUNDAY, June 1, noon, live
Solemn Mass of the Ascension
EWTN “If you have risen with Christ, set your hearts on the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Seek the things that are above, not the things that are on earth.” So St. Paul tells us in Colossians 3. This Mass will take place in the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C.
TUESDAY, June 3, 4:15 p.m.
Room for One More
TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES Cary Grant, Betsy Drake and Lurene Tuttle star in this 1952 comedy about a kind-hearted couple who add two foster children to their own three kids.
WEDNESDAY, June 4, 10 p.m.
The Pride of the Yankees
TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES This 1942 fictionalized but true-to-life drama stars Gary Cooper as New York Yankees great Lou Gehrig (1903-1941), beloved for his baseball stardom but also for bravely facing the disease that cut his life short. Teresa Wright and Walter Brennan also star.
FRIDAY, June 6, 7 a.m.
WWII in HD
HISTORY This episode, “Battle Stations,” chronicles the Allies’ planning and staging of D-Day, the June 6, 1944, invasion of France that was to doom Nazi Germany’s grip on Europe. TV-14.
FRIDAY, June 6, 11:30 a.m.
The Catholic Church: Builder of Civilization
EWTN “The blood of martyrs is the seed of the Church,” wrote Tertullian in his Apologeticus in 197 A.D. In this episode, “The Anti-Catholic Atrocities That History Forgot,” historian Thomas Woods Jr. recounts many times through the centuries that that saying has come true.
SATURDAY, June 7, 4 p.m., live
157th Belmont Stakes
FOX Post time will be at 6:41 p.m. at Saratoga Race Course in Saratoga Springs, New York, for this final leg of thoroughbred horse racing’s Triple Crown. Next year the event will return to its home, Belmont Park in Long Island, after current construction there is complete.
SUNDAY, June 8, noon
Solemn Mass of Pentecost Sunday
EWTN “It shall come to pass, I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh,” wrote the prophet Joel in probably the fifth century B.C. Cardinal Christophe Pierre, apostolic nuncio to the United States, is to celebrate Mass in the Basilica of the National Shrine.
Upcoming
MONDAY, June 16, 1:30 a.m.
Champions of Faith
EWTN Hall of Fame catcher Mike Piazza and other Catholic former stars of Major League baseball explain how much their faith has strengthened them throughout their lives.