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
July 25 - Prayer to St. James
O martyred apostle, first to endure the death of Christ, you have indeed drunk of His cup, fully accepting the sacrifice to which all are called, and so blazed the path of service for others to follo…
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Thu 24 Jul 2025
July 25 - St. James
(2Cor.4:7-15; Ps.126:1-6; Mt.20:20-28) “Continually we carry about in our bodies the dying of Jesus, so that in our bodies the life of Jesus may also be revealed.” In His apostles th…
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Thu 24 Jul 2025
July 24 - Prayer to St. Sharbel Makhluf
O solitary prayer, alone with the Lord in the Blessed Sacrament you offered your life for the salvation of souls; in penance you lived, and so a light shone even from your tomb to show the presence o…
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Wed 23 Jul 2025
July 24 - Thursday of the 16th Week in Ordinary Time, Year I
(Ex.19:1-2,9-11,16-20; Dn.3:52-56; Mt.13:10-17) “Blest are your eyes because they see and blest are your ears because they hear.” Jesus tells us today, “Many a prophet and many a saint l…
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Wed 23 Jul 2025
July 23 - Prayer to St. Bridget
O seer of the Passion of our Lord Jesus Christ, of the scourges and the nails, of the blows and mockery He endured, of the blood which covered His face and all His skin… O you who have witnessed all …
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Tue 22 Jul 2025
July 23 - Wednesday of the 16th Week in Ordinary Time, Year I
Ex.16:1-5,9-15; Ps.78:18-19,23-28; Mt.13:1-9) “I will now rain down bread from heaven for you.” He gives us bread to eat; He gives us wine to drink. All our food comes from His hand. He…
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Tue 22 Jul 2025
July 22 - Prayer to St. Mary Magdalene
O woman of great love whose heart burned with desire for the Lord, whose soul thirsted for the living God… the tears you cried became the source of the greatest joy as from your sins the Christ relea…
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Mon 21 Jul 2025
July 22 - St. Mary Magdalene
(Sg.3:1-4 or 2Cor.5:14-17; Ps.63:2-6,8-9; Jn.20:1-2,11-18) "Whom are you looking for?" Let us stand with Mary Magdalene at the tomb of our risen Lord. Let us weep a little that our hearts might b…
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Mon 21 Jul 2025
July 21 - Prayer to St. Lawrence of Brindisi
O great preacher of the Word of God, you who were entrusted with this angelic office to bring light to Christian minds and dispel the darkness of sin and error – pray all souls this day may be blesse…
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Sun 20 Jul 2025
July 21 - Monday of the 16th Week in Ordinary Time, Year I
(Ex.14:5-18; Ex.15:1-6; Mt.12:38-42) “The Lord Himself will fight for you; you have only to keep still.” But the scribes and the Pharisees cannot keep still, cannot hold faith firmly in…
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Sun 20 Jul 2025
July 20 - Prayer to St. Apollinaris
O suffering shepherd severely persecuted for your work of evangelization, you ever continued to preach the faith and convert multitudes despite all the tortures the ravenous beasts of this earth coul…
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Sat 19 Jul 2025
July 20 - Sunday of the 16th Week in Ordinary Time, Year C
(Gn.18:1-10a; Ps.15:1-5; Col.1:24-28; Lk.10:38-42) “There is need of only one thing.” Whether we teach or whether we serve, all must be done in the Name of the Lord. If it is not sitting at …
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Sat 19 Jul 2025
July 19 - Saturday of the 15th Week in Ordinary Time, Year I
(Ex.12:37-42; Ps.136:1,10-15,23-24; Mt.12:14-21) “All the Israelites must keep a vigil for the Lord throughout their generations.” After four hundred and thirty years, as one man the Isr…
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Fri 18 Jul 2025
July 18 - Prayer to St. Camillus de Lellis
O servant of the sick whose compassionate heart melted at the sight of every suffering soul, who constantly visited Christ as He lay in hospital… how deep was your charity, how complete your love and…
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Thu 17 Jul 2025
July 18 - Friday of the 15th Week in Ordinary Time, Year I
(Ex.11:10-12:14; Ps.116:12-13,15-18; Mt.12:1-8) “The Son of Man is indeed the Lord of the sabbath.” “There is something greater than the temple here,” greater than the Passover and all th…
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Thu 17 Jul 2025
July 17 - Thursday of the 15th Week in Ordinary Time, Year I
(Ex.3:11-20; Ps.105:1,5,8-9,24-27; Mt.11:28-30) “My yoke is easy and my burden light.” I AM has come and led His people “up out of the misery of Egypt,” up out of slavery. The heavy yoke…
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Wed 16 Jul 2025
July 16 - Prayer to Our Lady of Mount Carmel
O Mother of contemplation who heard the Word of God and kept it, pondering its wonder in your heart, you who were so faithful to His call and remain ever in His presence – how shall we know our Lord …
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Tue 15 Jul 2025
July 16 - Wednesday of the 15th Week in Ordinary Time, Year I
(Ex.3:1-6,9-12; Ps.103:1-4,6-8; Mt.11:25-27) “An angel of the Lord appeared to him in fire flaming out of a bush.” The Lord appears to Moses. “The God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, the …
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Tue 15 Jul 2025
July 15 - Prayer to St. Bonaventure
O good doctor who taught the way to God by death to things outside the Cross, by resting with Christ in the tomb that we might pass from this world to the Father – pray our passions indeed be silence…
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Mon 14 Jul 2025
July 15 - Tuesday of the 15th Week in Ordinary Time, Year I
(Ex.2:1-15; Ps.69:3,14,30-31,33-34; Mt.11:20-24) “I drew him out of the water.” Moses was drawn from “the watery depths” by Pharaoh’s daughter and nursed by his own mother. Into the rive…
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Mon 14 Jul 2025
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