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
January 13 - Prayer to St. Hilary
O shepherd and doctor of God’s holy Church, is this not what you would declare with all your breath to the ends of the earth: “Jesus is the Son of God and God Himself”? Would you not proclaim the tru…
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Sun 12 Jan 2025
January 13 - Monday of the 1st Week in Ordinary Time, Year I
(Heb.1:1-6; Ps.97:1-2,6-7,9; Mk.1:14-20) “This is the time of fulfillment.” Brothers and sisters, no longer does God speak to us “in fragmentary and varied ways”; this is “the final age,” i…
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Sun 12 Jan 2025
January 12 - Baptism of the Lord, Year C
(Is.40:1-5,9-11; Ps.104:1-4,24-25,27-30; Ti.2:11-14,3:4-7; Lk.3:15-16,21-22) “Heaven was opened and the Holy Spirit descended upon Him in bodily form like a dove.” “Beloved: The grace of G…
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Sat 11 Jan 2025
January 11 - Saturday after Epiphany
(1Jn.5:14-21; Ps.149:1-6,9; Jn.3:22-30) “The Son of God has come and has given us discernment to recognize the One who is true.” John’s disciples had difficulty recognizing “the One who is …
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Fri 10 Jan 2025
January 10 - Friday after Epiphany
(1Jn.5:5-13; Ps.147:12-15,19-20; Lk.5:12-16) “Whoever possesses the Son possesses life.” What does our psalmist mean when he sings: “He has granted peace in your borders; with the best of w…
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Thu 09 Jan 2025
January 9 - Thursday after Epiphany
(1Jn.4:19-5:4; Ps.72:1-2,11,14-15,17; Lk.4:14-22) “Today this Scripture passage is fulfilled in your hearing.” Today the Son has come into our midst. Today He has “unrolled the scroll” of t…
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Wed 08 Jan 2025
January 8 - Wednesday after Epiphany
(1Jn.4:11-18; Ps.72:1-2,10,12-13; Mk.6:45-52) “If we love one another, God dwells in us, and His love is brought to perfection in us.” Jesus has just fed the five thousand men with the five…
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Tue 07 Jan 2025
January 7 - Prayer to St. Raymond of Penafort
O redeemer of captive slaves, those enslaved to sin and those enslaved by the clutches of the world – preach to us this day the freedom found under the Cross of Christ and in the repentance of heart …
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Mon 06 Jan 2025
January 7 - Tuesday after Epiphany
(1Jn.4:7-10, Ps.72:1-4,7-8,11; Mk.6:34-44) “Justice shall flower in His days, and profound peace, till the moon be no more.” Our psalm (of Solomon, the king of peace and wisdom) relates the…
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Mon 06 Jan 2025
January 6 - Prayer to St. Andre Bessette
O friend of the lowly, humble child of St. Joseph, servant of the poor and counsel to the afflicted through whom the Lord worked miracles… how He blessed your ignorance with His wisdom, your weakness…
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Sun 05 Jan 2025
January 6 - Monday after Epiphany
(1Jn.3:22-4:6; Ps.2:7-8,10-11; Mt.4:12-17,23-25) “Every spirit that acknowledges Jesus Christ come in the flesh belongs to God.” And for every spirit that acknowledges Him, He answers all pr…
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Sun 05 Jan 2025
January 5 - Prayer to St. John Neumann
O shepherd who walked in the humble stead of your flock, who worked so diligently among those in your care, speaking to their hearts; you who gathered into schools the little ones, who saw to the edu…
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Sat 04 Jan 2025
January 5 - Epiphany of the Lord
(Is.60:1-6; Ps.72:1-2,7-8,10-13; Eph.3:2-3a,5-6; Mt.2:1-12) “They were overjoyed at seeing the star, and on entering the house they saw the child with Mary His Mother.” And so our prophe…
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Sat 04 Jan 2025
January 4 - Prayer to St. Elizabeth Ann Seton
O mother through marriage and religious Mother, who indeed became mother of many, many sisters whom you led in the faith and many children whom you taught in your schools – in your wisdom teach many …
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Fri 03 Jan 2025
January 4 - before Epiphany
(1Jn.3:7-10; Ps.98:1,3,7-9; Jn.1:35-42) “When Jesus turned around and noticed them following Him, He asked them, ‘What are you looking for?’” Brothers and sisters, what Jesus asks the first tw…
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Fri 03 Jan 2025
January 3 - before Epiphany
(1Jn.2:29-3:6; Ps.98:1,3-6; Jn.1:29-34) “Look there! The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!” “This is God’s chosen One.” This is He upon whom “the Spirit descend[s]” – who takes…
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Thu 02 Jan 2025
January 2 - Prayer to Sts. Basil the Great and Gregory Nazianzen
O bishops and doctors, O brothers so united in Christ, united in your desire to find His wisdom and live His virtue, for you what mattered but to be like Christ? All you would have given up to find H…
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Wed 01 Jan 2025
January 2 - before Epiphany
(1Jn.2:22-28; Ps.98:1-4; Jn.1:19-28) “Remain in the Son and in the Father.” In our gospel John the Baptist tells the priests and Levites sent by the Pharisees, “There is… one who is to come afte…
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Wed 01 Jan 2025
January 1 - Prayer to Mary, Mother of God
O Blessed Virgin in whose womb was conceived the only Son of God, who by such grace has brought salvation to our race… What faith is yours in God the Father! What power is upon you by the Holy Spirit…
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Tue 31 Dec 2024
January 1 - Mary, Mother of God
(Nm.6:22-27; Ps.67:2-3,5-6,8; Gal.4:4-7; Lk.2:16-21) “The shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all they had heard and seen, just as it had been told to them.” The blessing …
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Tue 31 Dec 2024
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