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
April 14 - Sunday of the 3rd Week of Easter, Year B
(Acts 3:13-15,17-19; Ps.4:2,4,7-9; 1Jn.2:1-5a; Lk.24:35-48) “He is expiation for our sins.” Brothers and sisters, “we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous one.” For us…
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Sat 13 Apr 2024
April 7 - Divine Mercy Sunday, Year B
(Acts 4:32-35; Ps.118:1-4,16-18,22-24; 1Jn.5:1-6; Jn.20:19-31) “His mercy endures forever.” Our psalmist “was hard pressed and was falling, but the Lord helped” him. The disciples were locked…
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Sat 06 Apr 2024
March 18 - Monday of the 5th Week of Lent, Year A/B
(Dn.13:1-9,15-17,19-30,33-62; Ps.23:1-6; Jn.8:1-11) “Let the man among you who has no sin be the first to cast a stone at her.” “Then the audience drifted away one by one, beginning with th…
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Sun 17 Mar 2024
March 17 - Sunday of the 5th Week of Lent, Year B
(Jer.31:31-34; Ps.51:3-4,12-15; Heb.5:7-9; Jn.12:20-33) “Father, glorify your name.” Jesus cries out in supplication to Him who is “able to save Him from death,” but He prays not to be saved f…
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Sat 16 Mar 2024
March 10 - Sunday of the 4th Week of Lent, Year B
(2Chr.36:14-16,19-23; Ps.137:1-6; Eph.2:4-10; Jn.3:14-21) “By the streams of Babylon we sat and wept.” For “practicing all the abominations of the nations and polluting the Lord’s temple,” th…
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Sat 09 Mar 2024
March 5 - Tuesday of the 3rd Week of Lent
(Dn.3:25,34-43; Ps.25:4-9; Mt.18:21-35) “With contrite heart and humble spirit let us be received.” The Lord “guides the humble to justice, He teaches the humble His way,” and so it is the …
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Mon 04 Mar 2024
March 3 - Sunday of the 3rd Week of Lent, Year B
(Ex.20:1-17; Ps.19:8-11; 1Cor.1:22-25; Jn.2:13-25) “The fear of the Lord is pure, enduring forever.” Is it not fear of the Lord, Jesus would instill in the people as He makes “a whip out of c…
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Sat 02 Mar 2024
February 28 - Wednesday of the 2nd Week of Lent
(Jer.18:18-20; Ps.31:5-6,14-17; Mt.20:17-28) “Can you drink of the cup I am to drink of?” Do you know what He asks, brothers and sisters? And do you know where it leads? In our gospel tod…
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Tue 27 Feb 2024
February 25 - Sunday of the 2nd Week of Lent, Year B
(Gn.22:1-2,9-13,15-18; Ps.116:10,15-19; Rom.8:31-34; Mk.9:2-10) “You shall offer him up as a holocaust on a height that I will point out to you.” “Take your son Isaac, your only one, whom you …
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Sat 24 Feb 2024
February 18 - Sunday of the 1st Week of Lent, Year B
(Gn.9:8-15; Ps.25:4-9; 1Pt.3:18-22; Mk.1:12-15) “I set my bow in the clouds to serve as a sign of the covenant between me and the earth.” In times past God made a covenant with Noah and his …
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Sat 17 Feb 2024
February 13 - Tuesday of the 6th Week in Ordinary Time, Year II
(Jas.1:12-18; Ps.94:12-15,18-19; Mk.8:14-21) “He wills to bring us to birth with a word spoken in truth.” But how deaf we are to His speaking. The disciples exhibit a remarkable degree of ignor…
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Mon 12 Feb 2024
February 12 - Monday of the 6th Week in Ordinary Time, Year II
(Jas.1:1-11; Ps.119:67-68,71-72,75-77; Mk.8:11-13) “Count it pure joy when you are involved in every sort of trial.” How well James explicates the wisdom of the cross. First he encourages us t…
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Sun 11 Feb 2024
February 11 - Sunday of the 6th Week in Ordinary Time, Year B
(Lv.13:1-2,44-46; Ps.32:1-2,5,7,11; 1Cor.10:31-11:1; Mk.1:40-45) “I said, ‘I confess my faults to the Lord,’ and you took away the guilt of my sin.” The leper in our gospel confesses his fa…
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Sat 10 Feb 2024
February 10 - Saturday of the 5th Week in Ordinary Time, Year II
(1Kgs.12:26-32,13:33-34; Ps.106:4,6-7,19-22; Mk.8:1-10) “Whoever desired it was consecrated and became a priest of the high places.” For this sin “the house of Jeroboam… was to be cut off and d…
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Fri 09 Feb 2024
February 9 - Friday of the 5th Week in Ordinary Time, Year II
(1Kgs.11:29-32,12:19; Ps.81:9-15; Mk.7:31-37) “My people heard not my voice, and Israel obeyed me not; so I gave them up to the hardness of their hearts.” The Lord has said, “There shall be no…
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Thu 08 Feb 2024
February 8 - Thursday of the 5th Week in Ordinary Time, Year II
(1Kgs.11:4-13; Ps.106:3-4,35-37,40; Mk.7:24-30) “It is not right to take the food of the children and throw it to the dogs.” Jesus speaks these words to a foreign woman, a pagan Greek, who “be…
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Wed 07 Feb 2024
February 7 - Wednesday of the 5th Week in Ordinary Time, Year II
(1Kgs.10:1-10; Ps.37:5-6,30-31,39-40; Mk.7:14-23) “The mouth of the just man tells of wisdom and his tongue utters what is right.” Today in our readings we have a passage to illustrate the grea…
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Tue 06 Feb 2024
February 6 - Tuesday of the 5th Week in Ordinary Time, Year II
(1Kgs.8:22-23,27-30; Ps.84:2-5,10-11; Mk.7:1-13) “Can it indeed be that God dwells among men on earth?” Well does Solomon do in stating, “If the heavens and the highest heavens cannot contain y…
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Mon 05 Feb 2024
February 5 - Monday of the 5th Week in Ordinary Time, Year II
(1Kgs.8:1-7,9-13; Ps.132:6-10; Mk.6:53-56) “Let us enter into His dwelling, let us worship at His footstool.” “Advance, O Lord, to your resting place, you and the ark of your majesty.” Yes, in…
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Sun 04 Feb 2024
February 4 - Sunday of the 5th Week in Ordinary Time, Year B
(Jb.7:1-4,6-7; Ps.147:1-6; 1Cor.9:16-19,22-23; Mk.1:29-39) “He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.” In our first reading, Job is about as brokenhearted as a man could be, beset…
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Sat 03 Feb 2024
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