The BreadCast
Spirit-filled daily reflections on the Mass Readings of the Roman Catholic Church from the book Our Daily Bread by James Kurt (with imprimatur). The daily podcasts are voice only, while the podcasts for Sundays and Solemnities are produced with music and other elements. Another podcast recently added: Prayers to the Saints - a prayer to each saint on the calendar for the US. Also with imprimatur.
- Update frequency
- every day
- Average duration
- 4 minutes
- Episodes
- 951
- Years Active
- 2007 - 2025
May 15 - Prayer to St. Isidore the Farmer
O farmer of God’s green earth who cultivated the faith even as you cultivated the ground, whose simple and humble life should serve as inspiration to all toiling on this plane – pray that we shall fo…
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Wed 14 May 2025
May 15 - Thursday of the 4th Week of Easter
(Acts 13:13-35; Ps.89:2-3,21-22,25,27; Jn.13:16-20) “He who accepts anyone I send accepts me, and in accepting me accepts Him who sent me.” And who is this Jesus who sends apostles like …
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Wed 14 May 2025
May 14 - Prayer to St. Matthias
O chosen apostle, destined to serve the Church as witness to the resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ, you who walked with Him from the beginning even until He was taken from our sight yet were not …
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Tue 13 May 2025
May 14 - St. Matthias
(Acts 1:15-17,20-26; Ps.113:1-8; Jn.15:9-17) “It was I who chose you to go forth and bear fruit.” Since “the saying in Scripture uttered long ago by the Holy Spirit through the mouth of D…
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Tue 13 May 2025
May 13 - Prayer to Our Lady of Fatima
O marvelous Wonder, O Lady who shines like the sun, who brings the Light into our midst and calls us to repentance that we might be saved, that the whole world might turn to the Lord and be preserved…
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Mon 12 May 2025
May 13 - Tuesday of the 4th Week of Easter
(Acts 11:19-26; Ps.87:1-7,117:1; Jn.10:22-30) “Of Zion they shall say: ‘One and all were born in her.’” “I tell of Egypt and Babylon among those that know the Lord; of Philistia, Tyre, E…
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Mon 12 May 2025
May 12 - Prayer to St. Pancras
O child of courage, though but a boy you gave your life as the strongest of men, proving thus your love for Christ, a love that steels souls even in the face of death, even in the youthful breast – i…
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Sun 11 May 2025
May 12 - Prayer to Sts. Nereus and Achilleus
O brave soldiers, the world could not take Christ from your hearts; though it tried to expunge Him from the army in which you served, your allegiance to the holy One of Israel, our Lord and God, rema…
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Sun 11 May 2025
May 12 - Monday of the 4th Week of Easter
(Acts 11:1-18; Ps.41:3,42:2-3,43:3-4; Jn.10:1-10 or Jn.10:11-18) “God has granted life-giving repentance even to the Gentiles.” In his vision Peter sees “an object like a big canvas… lowe…
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Sun 11 May 2025
May 10 - Saturday of the 3rd Week of Easter
(Acts 9:31-42; Ps.116:12-17; Jn.6:60-69) “We have come to believe.” Yes, Peter professes for the Twelve (except Judas, of course), “We are convinced that you are God’s holy one.” They hav…
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Sun 11 May 2025
May 11 - Sunday of the 4th Week of Easter, Year C
(Acts 13:14,43-52; Ps.100:1-3,5; Rv.7:9,14b-17; Jn.10:27-30) “The Lamb who is in the center of the throne will shepherd them and lead them to springs of life-giving water.” Joy is our promise…
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Sat 10 May 2025
May 10 - Prayer to St. Damien de Veuster
O leper with the lepers, you united yourself so thoroughly with those you served that you became one of them, one of the frightful and rejected souls abandoned by the wo…
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Fri 09 May 2025
May 9 - Friday of the 3rd Week of Easter
(Acts 9:1-20; Ps.117:1-2,Mk.16:15; Jn.6:52-59) “My flesh is real food and my blood real drink.” And “the man who feeds on this bread shall live forever.” The truth is simply stated to th…
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Thu 08 May 2025
May 8 - Thursday of the 3rd Week of Easter
(Acts 8:26-40; Ps.66:1,8-9,16-17,20; Jn.6:44-51) “No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him.” How evident it is in our first reading that the Father draws all believe…
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Wed 07 May 2025
May 7 - Wednesday of the 3rd Week of Easter
(Acts 8:1-8; Ps.66:1-7; Jn.6:35-40) “Let all on earth worship and sing praise to you, sing praise to your name!” And why should there be such exultant joy among all the peoples of the ea…
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Tue 06 May 2025
May 6 - Tuesday of the 3rd Week of Easter
(Acts 7:51-8:1; Ps.31:3-4,6-8,17,21; Jn.6:30-35) “No one who comes to me shall ever be hungry, no one who believes in me shall thirst again.” “I myself am the bread of life,” Jesus decla…
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Mon 05 May 2025
May 5 - Monday of the 3rd Week of Easter
(Acts 6:8-15; Ps.119:1,23-24,26-27,29-30; Jn.6:22-29) “This is the work of God: have faith in the One whom He sent.” It is this faith that moves Stephen; it is this work upon which he se…
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Sun 04 May 2025
May 4 - Sunday of the 3rd Week of Easter, Year C
(Acts 5:27-32,40b-41; Ps.30:2,4-6,11-13; Rv.5:11-14; Jn.21:1-19) “You changed my mourning into dancing.” Throughout our readings today we witness the glory the risen Lord effects by His sacrif…
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Sat 03 May 2025
May 3 - Prayer to Sts. Philip and James
O holy apostles of the Lord upon whom the Church is established, your words go out to the ends of the earth, bringing the Gospel to all nations. You who were near to Jesus Himself, who were with Him …
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Fri 02 May 2025
May 3 - Sts. Philip and James
(1Cor.15:1-8; Ps.19:2-5; Jn.14:6-14) “The man who has faith in me will do the works I do.” What is the message the apostles preach “to the ends of the world”? What is “the glory of God” …
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Fri 02 May 2025
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