WATCH ON EWTN: The Jubilee of Youth Mass With Pope Leo
Pope Leo XIV will celebrate Mass at Tor Vergata on Rome’s outskirts on Aug. 3, plus other TV Picks.
SUNDAY, July 27, 9 a.m.
Modern Marvels
HISTORY This episode profiles John Deere and other makers of heavy equipment. TV-PG.
SUNDAY, July 27, 2 p.m.
112th Tour de France, Final Stage
NBC After daily wending its way through France’s glorious countryside, this rigorous, 2,000-mile bicycling competition will conclude on the storied Champs-Élysées in Paris.
SATURDAY, Aug. 2, 8 p.m.
The Sound of Music
TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES Based on the 1949 memoir The Story of the Trapp Family Singers by Maria von Trapp (1905-1987), this beloved 1965 musical romance stars Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer in a story of the family’s happy life until Nazi Germany’s takeover of Austria forces them into a perilous decision about their future.
SUNDAY, Aug. 3, 7 p.m.
Holy Mass for the Jubilee of Youth
EWTN Pope Leo XIV will celebrate Mass at Tor Vergata on Rome’s outskirts. Tape-delayed.
Learn more about the Jubilee of Youth:
TUESDAY, Aug. 5, 11 p.m.
Pontifical Solemn High Mass
EWTN In the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe in La Crosse, Wisconsin, Cardinal Raymond Burke will celebrate this High Mass with Frank La Rocca’s 2018 Mass of the Americas, which incorporates Gregorian chant and 18th-century Mexican folk melodies. Tape-delayed.
TUESDAY-THURSDAY, Aug. 5-7
Knights of Columbus 143rd Supreme Convention
EWTN Meeting in Washington, this Catholic men’s fraternal and charitable order will review successes and outline goals. Monday will see the Opening Mass at 9 a.m., the Opening Session at 1 p.m. and the States Dinner at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday’s Convention Mass will be at 8 a.m., and Wednesday will see the Mass in Memory of All Deceased Knights at 8 a.m.
WEDNESDAY, Aug. 6, 11:30 a.m.
Solemn Mass for the Feast of the Transfiguration of the Lord
EWTN Mass will take place in the Basilica of the Transfiguration of Our Lord Jesus Christ on Mount Tabor in the Holy Land.
SATURDAY, Aug. 9, 4:15 a.m.
The Jackie Robinson Story
TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES This 1950 sports drama classic stars Baseball Hall of Famer Jackie Robinson (1919-1972) as himself. He faced down bigotry “by having the guts not to fight back” in 1947, when the Brooklyn Dodgers’ Branch Rickey made him the first Black major leaguer since Moses Fleetwood Walker in 1884. Ruby Dee and Minor Watson also star.
Upcoming
Sunday, Aug. 10
Father James E. Coyle
EWTN At 10:30 a.m., Father James E. Coyle: Life and Legacy documents the life of Irish-born Father Coyle (1873-1921), whom a Ku Klux Klansman murdered for officiating the marriage of his daughter and her Puerto Rican boyfriend. TV-PG. At 11 a.m., in Cathedrals Across America, Bishop Steven Raica of Birmingham, Alabama, will celebrate the annual Father James Coyle Memorial Mass.

