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
August 15 - The Assumption
(Rv.11:19a,12:1-6a,10ab; Ps.45:10-12,16; 1Cor.15:20-26; Lk.1:39-56) “A great sign appeared in the sky, a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon beneath her feet, and on her head a crown…
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Thu 14 Aug 2025
August 14 - Prayer to St. Maximilian Mary Kolbe
O soldier of the Immaculate Virgin and martyr for our Lord, well you spread the fame of the Mother of all graces, calling all souls to repentance that she might apply her Son’s blood to save the stra…
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Wed 13 Aug 2025
August 14 - Thursday of the 19th Week in Ordinary Time, Year I
(Jos.3:7-11,13-17; Ps.114:1-6; Mt.18:21-19:1) “My heavenly Father will treat you in exactly the same way unless each of you forgives his brother from his heart.” The forgiveness of sins …
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Wed 13 Aug 2025
August 13 - Prayer to Sts. Pontian and Hippolytus
O brothers united in faith and in offering the ultimate sacrifice for the sake of that faith, for the sake of God’s Church – pray nothing shall separate Christ’s brothers one from another, but that a…
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Tue 12 Aug 2025
August 13 - Wednesday of the 19th Week in Ordinary Time, Year I
(Dt.34:1-12; Ps.66:1-3,5,8,16-17,20; Mt.18:15-20) “This is the land which I swore to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob that I would give to their descendants.” The promise is coming to fulfillment; Mo…
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Tue 12 Aug 2025
August 12 - Prayer to St. Jane Frances de Chantal
O tireless worker for the Lord who when cut off from everything dearest to you gave yourself completely to God, you who have shown the way of the martyrdom of love, of dying entirely to self and serv…
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Mon 11 Aug 2025
August 12 - Tuesday of the 19th Week in Ordinary Time, Year I
(Dt.31:1-8; Dt.32:3-4,7-9,12; Mt.18:1-5,10,12-14) “It is the Lord who marches before you; He will be with you and never fail or forsake you.” “Do not fear or be dismayed,” little ones, t…
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Mon 11 Aug 2025
August 11 - Prayer to St. Clare
O bride of Christ whose poverty matched His own, whose humility made Him known, whose love indeed approached His throne and the embrace of His holy arms – pray all souls will gaze into the mirror tha…
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Sun 10 Aug 2025
August 11 - Monday of the 19th Week in Ordinary Time, Year I
Dt.10:12-22; Ps.147:12-15,19-20; Mt.17:22-27) “In His love for your fathers the Lord was so attached to them as to choose you, their descendants, in preference to all other peoples.” The…
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Sun 10 Aug 2025
August 10 - Prayer to St. Lawrence
O generous soul, you gave your life freely to the poor and your death completely to the Lord; a grain of wheat fallen to the earth, you have indeed produced much fruit, so closely have you fol…
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Sat 09 Aug 2025
August 10 - Sunday of the 19th Week in Ordinary Time, Year C
(Ws.18:6-9; Ps.33:1,12.18-20,22; Heb.11:1-2,8-19; Lk.12:32-48) “You also must be prepared, for at an hour you do not expect, the Son of Man will come.” “Our soul waits for the Lord.” Though…
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Sat 09 Aug 2025
August 9 - Prayer to St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross
O sacrificial victim seeking to bring peace to a dark world, you found your wisdom in love, in the love of Christ and in His Cross, and died three times for His sake: once in entering His Church, onc…
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Fri 08 Aug 2025
August 9 - Saturday of the 18th Week in Ordinary Time, Year I
(Dt.6:4-13; Ps.18:2-4,47,51; Mt.17:14-20) “Praised be the Lord, I exclaim, and I am safe from my enemies.” In our first reading we hear the Shema, the great Commandment of the Mosaic Law …
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Fri 08 Aug 2025
August 8 - Prayer to St. Dominic
O humble preacher who walked in poverty with Christ your King and spoke in power to destroy lie by truth, you gathered men around you to be bearers of the grace of God, to be men of the Gospel…
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Thu 07 Aug 2025
August 8 - Friday of the 18th Week in Ordinary Time, Year I
(Dt.4:32-40; Ps.77:12-16,21; Mt.16:24-28) “The Son of Man will come with His Father’s glory accompanied by His angels.” The Lord God came to “take a nation for Himself from the midst of …
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Thu 07 Aug 2025
August 7 - Prayer to St. Cajetan
O reformer of the Church and leader of her priests and people, calling all to live the Gospel, to give their hearts in the service of Christ, who alone can save men’s souls – pray that your love for …
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Wed 06 Aug 2025
August 7 - Prayer to St. Sixtus II and Companions
O martyrs of the faith ordained by the Lord to shed blood for His sake and the sake of His Church, to give witness to the glory of Christ and so win the crown of eternal life… it is in your blood and…
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Wed 06 Aug 2025
August 7 - Thursday of the 18th Week in Ordinary Time, Year I
(Nm.20:1-13; Ps.95:1-2,6-9; Mt.16:13-23) “‘You are the Messiah,’ Simon Peter answered, ‘the Son of the Living God!’” With this response, because of this faith come from the “heavenly Fat…
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Wed 06 Aug 2025
August 6 - The Transfiguration
(Dn.7:9-10,13-14; Ps.97:1-2,5-6,9; 2Pt.1:16-19; Mt.17:1-9 – Mk.9:2-10 – Lk.9:28b-36 Note: since the three gospel accounts vary only in detail, they are treated as one in this one exposition fo…
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Tue 05 Aug 2025
August 5 - Tuesday of the 18th Week in Ordinary Time, Year I C
(Nm.12:1-13; Ps.51:3-7,12-13; Mt.14:22-36) “The presence of the Lord he beholds.” Throughout the history of salvation, the Lord chooses one man to lead His people. In the Old Testament times, th…
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Mon 04 Aug 2025
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