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
March 7 - Friday after Ash Wednesday
(Is.58:1-9; Ps.51:3-6,18-19; Mt.9:14-15) “Would that today you might fast so as to make your voice heard on high!” Brothers and sisters, in this day of fasting and penance, first we must “a…
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Thu 06 Mar 2025
March 6 - Thursday after Ash Wednesday
(Dt.30:15-20; Ps.1:1-4,6,39:5; Lk.9:22-25) “The Lord watches over the way of the just, but the way of the wicked vanishes.” In our first reading, Moses makes clear the choice we all must fa…
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Wed 05 Mar 2025
March 5 - Ash Wednesday
(Jl.2:12-18; Ps.51:3-6,12-14,17; 2Cor.5:20-6:2; Mt.6:1-6,16-18) “Even now, says the Lord, return to me with your whole heart, with fasting, and weeping, and mourning.” “We implore you, in…
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Tue 04 Mar 2025
March 4 - Prayer to St. Casimir
O patron of the impoverished who though son of a king counted yourself among the poor in spirit, you whose love abundantly flowed to all in need, who sought the purity of our Blessed Mother, who thir…
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Mon 03 Mar 2025
March 4 - Tuesday of the 8th Week in Ordinary Time, Year I
(Sir.35:1-12; Ps.50:5-8,14,23; Mk.10:28-31) “The just man’s sacrifice is most pleasing, nor will it ever be forgotten.” Peter is moved today to voice his fear that all that he and his fello…
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Mon 03 Mar 2025
March 3 - Prayer to St. Katharine Drexel
O mother to the poor and disadvantaged, missionary to those in your own country isolated from their neighbors because of the color of their skin, some who lived upon the land long before those who op…
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Sun 02 Mar 2025
March 3 - Monday of the 8th Week in Ordinary Time, Year I
(Sir.17:19-27; Ps.32:1-2,5-7,11; Mk.10:17-27) “Jesus fixed His gaze on them and said, ‘For man it is impossible but not for God.’” With these incisive words and particularly with this inten…
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Sun 02 Mar 2025
March 2 - Sunday of the 8th Week in Ordinary Time, Year C
(Sir.27:4-7; Ps.92:2-3,13-16; 1Cor.15:54-58; Lk.6:39-45) “Be firm, steadfast, always fully devoted to the work of the Lord.”…
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Sat 01 Mar 2025
March 1 - Saturday of the 7th Week in Ordinary Time, Year I
(Sir.17:1-15; Ps.103:13-18; Mk.10:13-16) “Let the children come to me and do not hinder them.” O how the Lord “looks with favor upon [our] hearts, and shows [us] His glorious works”! And b…
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Fri 28 Feb 2025
February 28 - Friday of the 7th Week in Ordinary Time, Year I
(Sir.6:5-17; Ps.119:12,16,18,27,34-35; Mk.10:1-12) “They are no longer two but one flesh.” How much more clearly could the Lord speak of the unity found in marriage and so the respect due t…
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Thu 27 Feb 2025
February 27 - Thursday of the 7th Week in Ordinary Time, Year I
(Sir.5:1-8; Ps.1:1-4,6,40:50; Mk.9:41-50) “Mercy and anger are alike with Him; upon the wicked alights His wrath.” “The way of the wicked vanishes.” It must vanish. It cannot but vanish, …
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Wed 26 Feb 2025
February 26 - Wednesday of the 7th Week in Ordinary Time, Year I
(Sir.4:11-19; Ps.119:165,168,171-172,174-175; Mk.9:38-40) “Those who serve her serve the Holy One; those who love her the Lord loves.” Such is wisdom, she who “instructs her children and ad…
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Tue 25 Feb 2025
February 25 - Tuesday of the 7th Week in Ordinary Time, Year I
(Sir.2:1-11; Ps.37:3-5,18-19,27-28,39-40; Mk.9:30-37) “My son, when you come to serve the Lord, prepare yourself for trials.” Is Jesus not “teaching His disciples in this vein” when He speaks o…
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Mon 24 Feb 2025
February 24 - Monday of the 7th Week in Ordinary Time, Year I
(Sir.1:1-10; Ps.93:1-2,5; Mk.9:14-29) “There is but one, wise and truly awe-inspiring, seated upon His throne: It is the Lord.” “The Lord is King, in splendor robed,” and He alone knows “wi…
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Sun 23 Feb 2025
February 23 - Prayer to St. Polycarp
O disciple of John and shepherd who drank deeply of the cup of Christ’s suffering, you who bore both the burden of a long life and the pain of a violent death yet remained faithful till the end – pra…
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Sat 22 Feb 2025
February 23 - Sunday of the 7th Week in Ordinary Time, Year C
(1Sm.26:2,7-9,12-13,22-23; Ps.103:1-4,8,10,12-13; 1Cor.15:45-49; Lk.6:27-38) “Who can lay hands on the Lord’s anointed and remain unpunished?” …
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Sat 22 Feb 2025
February 22- Prayer on the Chair of St. Peter
O Rock of the Church, leader of God’s people to whom the Father has revealed the divinity of His Son and on whom the Son has therefore built His Church, giving you the keys to the kingdom, the power …
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Fri 21 Feb 2025
February 22 - Chair of St. Peter
(1Pt.5:1-4; Ps.23:1-6; Mt.16:13-19) “On this rock I will build my Church.” And Simon’s name is changed to “Peter”, which means “Rock”, to signify that here is the chief shepherd of the Chur…
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Fri 21 Feb 2025
February 21 - Prayer to St. Peter Damian
O blessed reformer of the Church who by a holy austerity cleansed your soul of the corruption of this world and served by example to lead others to a religious life – teach us this day of the chastis…
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Thu 20 Feb 2025
February 21 - Friday of the 6th Week in Ordinary Time, Year I
(Gn.11:1-9; Ps.33:10-15; Mk.8:34-9:1) “What profit does a man show who gains the whole world and destroys himself in the process?” Listen to what the men of old said among themselves at a t…
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Thu 20 Feb 2025
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