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 28 - Wednesday of the 21st Week in Ordinary Time, Year II
(2Thes.3:6-10,16-18; Ps.128:1-2,4-5; Mt.23:27-32) “You shall eat the fruit of your handiwork.” “Anyone who would not work should not eat” was the rule laid down by Paul among the Thessalonians.…
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Tue 27 Aug 2024
August 27 - Tuesday of the 21st Week in Ordinary Time, Year II
(2Thes.2:1-3,14-17; Ps.96:10-13; Mt.23:23-26) “He shall rule the world with justice and the peoples with His constancy.” “Brothers, stand firm.” Be not “easily agitated or terrified” “on the q…
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Mon 26 Aug 2024
August 26 - Monday of the 21st Week in Ordinary Time, Year II
(2Thes.1:1-5,11-12; Ps.96:1-5; Mt.23:13-22) “Which is more important, the offering or the altar which makes the offering sacred?” The Pharisees in their blindness taught: “If a man swears by t…
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Sun 25 Aug 2024
August 25 - Sunday of the 21st Week in Ordinary Time, Year B
(Jos.24:1-2a,15-17,18b; Ps.34:2-3,9,16-21; Eph.5:21-32; Jn.6:60-69) “Do you also want to leave?” How like the questions pertaining to the marriage vows is our Lord’s inquiry of the Twelve, an…
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Sat 24 Aug 2024
August 24 - St. Bartholomew
(Rv.21:9-14; Ps.145:10-13,17-18; Jn.1:45-51) “Come, I will show you the woman who is the bride of the Lamb.” Nathanael (who is Bartholomew) is taken by Philip (whose name means “love”) to meet …
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Fri 23 Aug 2024
August 23 - Friday of the 20th Week in Ordinary Time, Year II
(Ez.37:1-14; Ps.107:1-9; Mt.22:34-40) “I will open your graves and have you rise from them, and bring you back to the land of Israel.” The commentary in the missal I read states: “The lesson he…
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Thu 22 Aug 2024
August 22 - Thursday of the 20th Week in Ordinary Time, Year II
(Ez.36:23-28; Ps.51:12-15,18-19,Ez.36:25; Mt.22:1-14) “Cast me not out from your presence, and your Holy Spirit take not from me.” The Lord desires to “prove the holiness of [His] great name,”…
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Wed 21 Aug 2024
August 21 - Wednesday of the 20th Week in Ordinary Time, Year II
(Ez.34:1-11; Ps.23:1-6; Mt.20:1-16) “I myself will look after and tend my sheep.” How grateful we should be that “the Lord is [our] shepherd,” for with Him we want for nothing. Indeed, our “cu…
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Tue 20 Aug 2024
August 20 - Tuesday of the 20th Week in Ordinary Time, Year II
(Ez.28:1-10; Dt.32:26-28,30,35-36,39; Mt.19:23-30) “Only with difficulty will a rich man enter the kingdom of God.” Yes, “close at hand is the day of their disaster, and their doom is rushing u…
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Mon 19 Aug 2024
August 19 - Monday of the 20th Week in Ordinary Time, Year II
(Ez.24:15-24; Dt.32:18-21; Mt.19:16-22) “Son of man, by a sudden blow I am taking away from you the delight of your eyes, but do not mourn or weep or shed any tears.” A striking similarity th…
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Sun 18 Aug 2024
August 18 - Sunday of the 20th Week in Ordinary Time, Year B
(Prv.9:1-6; Ps.34:2-7; Eph.5:15-20; Jn.6:51-58) “Amen, amen, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink of His blood, you do not have life within you.” Wisdom “has s…
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Sat 17 Aug 2024
August 17 - Saturday of the 19th Week in Ordinary Time, Year II
(Ez.18:1-10,13,30-32; Ps.51:12-15,18-19; Mt.19:13-15) “Cast away from you all the crimes you have committed, and make for yourselves a new heart and a new spirit.” “A clean heart create for me…
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Fri 16 Aug 2024
August 16 - Friday of the 19th Week in Ordinary Time, Year II
(Ez.16:1-15,60,63 or Ez.16:59-63; Is.12:1-6; Mt.19:3-12) “I will remember the covenant I made with you when you were a girl, and I will set up an everlasting covenant with you.” Ezekial first …
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Thu 15 Aug 2024
August 14 - Wednesday of the 19th Week in Ordinary Time, Year II
(Ez.9:1-7,10:18-22; Ps.113:1-6; Mt.18:15-20) “Where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I in their midst.” And so the four living creatures, the cherubim gathered beneath the feet of…
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Tue 13 Aug 2024
August 13 - Tuesday of the 19th Week in Ordinary Time, Year II
(Ez.2:8-3:4; Ps.119:14,24,72,103,111,131; Mt.18:1-5,10,12-14) “How sweet to my palate are your promises, sweeter than honey to my mouth!” And is there a sweeter promise or a sweeter teaching t…
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Mon 12 Aug 2024
August 12 - Monday of the 19th Week in Ordinary Time, Year II
(Ez.1:2-5,24-28; Ps.148:1-2,11-14; Mt.17:22-27) “His majesty is above earth and heaven.” Gleaming like gold or silver, shining forth like burning fire, splendorous as “the bow which appears in …
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Sun 11 Aug 2024
August 11 - Sunday of the 19th Week in Ordinary Time, Year B
(1Kgs.19:4-8; Ps.34:2-9; Eph.4:30-5:2; Jn.6:41-51) “Strengthened by that food he walked forty days and forty nights to the mountain of God, Horeb.” As the forty days and forty nights Noah fou…
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Sat 10 Aug 2024
August 10 - St. Lawrence
(2Cor.9:6-10; Ps.112:1-2,5-9; Jn.12:24-26) “The just man shall be in everlasting remembrance.” The servant of the Lord lays down his life in His name. Today we celebrate St. Lawrence, de…
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Fri 09 Aug 2024
August 9 - Friday of the 18th Week in Ordinary Time, Year II
(Nah.2:1,3,3:1-3,6-7; Dt.32:35-36,39,41; Mt.16:24-28) “It is I who bring both death and life, I who inflict wounds and heal them.” When the Lord comes indeed “He will repay each man according t…
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Thu 08 Aug 2024
August 8 - Thursday of the 18th Week in Ordinary Time, Year II
(Jer.31:31-34; Ps.51:12-15,18-19; Mt.16:13-23) “I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah.” Do not the days come to pass, is not this promise made through Jerem…
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Wed 07 Aug 2024
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