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
February 3 - Saturday of the 4th Week in Ordinary Time, Year II
(1Kgs.3:4-13; Ps.119:9-14; Mk.6:30-34) “He began to teach them at great length.” “Who is able to govern this vast people of yours?” Solomon asks in his plea to God for wisdom. And “upon disem…
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Fri 02 Feb 2024
February 1 - Thursday of the 4th Week in Ordinary Time, Year II
(1Kgs.2:1-4,10-12; 1Chr.29:10-12; Mk.6:7-13) “Yours, O Lord, is the sovereignty; you are exalted as head over all.” Solomon begins his reign, and the apostles begin their mission. But how dif…
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Wed 31 Jan 2024
January 31 - Wednesday of the 4th Week in Ordinary Time, Year II
(2Sm.24:2,9-17; Ps.32:1-2,5-7, Mk.6:1-6) “I acknowledged my sin to you; my guilt I covered not.” The Lord can heal only those who believe in Him, who turn to Him in their guilt to be saved. Dav…
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Tue 30 Jan 2024
January 30 - Tuesday of the 4th Week in Ordinary Time, Year II
(2Sm.18:9-10,14,24-25,30-19:3; Ps.86:1-6; Mk.5:21-43) “Hearken, O Lord, to my prayer, and attend to the sound of my pleading.” Today in our readings we hear of desperate pleas made to the Lord.…
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Mon 29 Jan 2024
January 29 - Monday of the 4th Week in Ordinary Time, Year II
(2Sm.15:13-14,30,16:5-13; Ps.3:2-7; Mk.5:1-20) “Many are saying of me, ‘There is no salvation for him in God.’” Today David’s sins rise to his neck, and he is persecuted for them. But in acce…
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Sun 28 Jan 2024
January 28 - Sunday of the 4th Week in Ordinary Time, Year B
(Dt.18:15-20; Ps.95:1-2,6-9; 1Cor.7:32-35; Mk.1:21-28) “A prophet like me will the Lord, your God, raise up for you from among your own kin.” Thus does Moses speak to the people as he prepar…
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Sat 27 Jan 2024
January 27 - Saturday of the 3rd Week in Ordinary Time, Year II
(2Sm.12:1-7,10-17; Ps.51:12-17; Mk.4:35-41) “I have sinned against the Lord.” David is the man who “took the poor man’s ewe lamb and made a meal of it for his visitor.” To feed his lust he has …
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Fri 26 Jan 2024
January 26 - Friday of the 3rd Week in Ordinary Time, Year II
(2Sm.11:1-10,13-17; Ps.51:3-7,10-11; Mk.4:26-34) “The seed sprouts and grows without his knowing how it happens.” Jesus in our gospel tells us of the kingdom of God and of its gradual growth wit…
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Thu 25 Jan 2024
January 24 - Wednesday of the 3rd Week in Ordinary Time, Year II
(2Sm.7:4-17; Ps.89:4-5,27-30; Mk.4:1-20) “Your house and your kingdom shall endure forever before me; your throne shall stand firm forever.” David seems intent on establishing the Lord’s presen…
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Tue 23 Jan 2024
January 23 - Tuesday of the 3rd Week in Ordinary Time, Year II
(2Sm.6:12-15,17-19; Ps.24:7-10; Mk.3:31-35) “Lift up, O gates, your lintels; reach up, you ancient portals, that the King of glory may come in!” In our first reading David leads all the Israel…
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Mon 22 Jan 2024
January 22 - Monday of the 3rd Week in Ordinary Time, Year II
(2Sm.5:1-7,10; Ps.89:20-22,25-26; Mk.3:22-30) “Whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will never be forgiven.” How different are the scribes who come to Jesus from the Israelites who come t…
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Sun 21 Jan 2024
January 21 - Sunday of the 3rd Week in Ordinary Time, Year B
(1Sm.3:3b-10,19; Ps.40:2,4,7-10; 1Cor.6:13c-15a,17-20; Jn.1:35-42) “The Lord came and revealed His presence, calling out as before, ‘Samuel, Samuel!’” The call of Samuel, the call of Peter …
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Sat 20 Jan 2024
January 20 - Saturday of the 2nd Week in Ordinary Time, Year II
(2Sm.1:1-4,11-12,19,23-27; Ps.80:2-7; Mk.3:20-21) “They mourned and wept and fasted until evening for Saul and his son Jonathan.” For David’s leading his men in mourning for Saul, it might ha…
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Fri 19 Jan 2024
January 19 - Friday of the 2nd Week in Ordinary Time, Year II
(1Sm.24:3-21; Ps.57:2-4,6,11; Mk.3:13-19) “Sovereignty over Israel shall come into your possession.” Today we see David at perhaps his most humble and obedient in the sight of God – we see why h…
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Thu 18 Jan 2024
January 18 - Thursday of the 2nd Week in Ordinary Time, Year II
(1Sm.18:6-9,19:1-7; Ps.56:2-3,5,9-14; Mk.3:7-12) “Saul has slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands.” And Jesus His millions. He slays an untold number of “unclean spirits [who] would …
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Wed 17 Jan 2024
January 17 - Wednesday of the 2nd Week in Ordinary Time, Year II
(1Sm.17:32-33,37,40-51; Ps.144:1-2,9-10; Mk.3:1-6) “You come against me with sword and spear and scimitar, but I come against you in the name of the Lord.” “The battle is the Lord’s” is the sim…
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Tue 16 Jan 2024
January 16 - Tuesday of the 2nd Week in Ordinary Time, Year II
(1Sm.16:1-13; Ps.89:20-22,27-28; Mk.2:23-28) “Man sees the appearance but the Lord looks into the heart.” Indeed, how different the vision of God from the vision of man, and how well the Lord i…
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Mon 15 Jan 2024
January 15 - Monday of the 2nd Week in Ordinary Time, Year II
(1Sm.15:16-23; Ps.50:8-9,16-17,21,23; Mk.2:18-22) “Does the Lord so delight in holocausts and sacrifices as in obedience to the command of the Lord? The answer to the question Samuel puts to Sa…
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Sun 14 Jan 2024
January 14 - Sunday of the 2nd Week in Ordinary Time, Year B
(1Sm.3:3b-10,19; Ps.40:2,4,7-10; 1Cor.6:13c-15a,17-20; Jn.1:35-42) “The Lord came and revealed His presence, calling out as before, ‘Samuel, Samuel!’” The call of Samuel, the call of Peter …
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Sat 13 Jan 2024
January 13 - Saturday of the 1st Week in Ordinary Time, Year II
(1Sm.9:1-4,17-19,10:1; Ps.21:2-7; Mk.2:13-17) “You are to govern the Lord’s people Israel, and to save them from the grasp of their enemies round about.” Tall and handsome, Saul gives every ap…
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Fri 12 Jan 2024
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