''Mass for You at Home'' is a religious television program broadcast by

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. It is the longest-running Australian religious television program; it is also Australia's fourth-longest-running television programme overall, and the longest-running show broadcast on Australian commercial television.Mass For You at Home continues, but changes looming…
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from their homes. ''Mass for You at Home'' is broadcast on Network 10 on Sundays and Aurora Channel on Foxtel every day. The programme typically has thousands of viewers around Australia.

Production

The programme has been broadcast by

since August 1971. It was initially a joint venture between the Catholic Archdiocese of Melbourne and the network, which also offers airtime for the show. Before 2021 the show was filmed entirely at 10's Como studios in Melbourne, with a year's worth of episodes typically filmed in January for broadcast throughout the year. In December 2020 it was announced that the show would undergo some production changes, including a "new look" and the filming of masses in churches. In 2021 the filming of the show moved to

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, and is now produced by the Catholic Diocese of Wollongong in partnership with the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference.Mass for You at Home reaches 50 Years
/ref> Geoffrey Baron was a celebrant on this program for 30 years. In 2006 he received national attention as a result of an altercation with teenagers that was recorded and subsequently uploaded to

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. Cardinal Pell frequently watched the program during his imprisonment in 2019-20 and expressed appreciation for its quality.

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Official website

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