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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.
Episodes
- The BreadCast
May 27 - Wednesday of the 8th Week in Ordinary Time, Year II
(1Pt.1:18-25; Ps.147:12-15,19-20; Mk.10:32-45) “The Son of Man has not come to be served but to serve – to give His life in ransom for the many.” As Jesus and…
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May 26 - Tuesday of the 8th Week in Ordinary Time, Year II
(1Pt.1:10-16; Ps.98:1-4; Mk.10:28-31) “Set all your hope on the gift to be conferred on you when Jesus Christ appears.” “The Lord has made His salvation known…
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May 25 - Monday of the 8th Week in Ordinary Time, Year II
(1Pt.1:3-9; Ps.111:1-2,5-6,9-10; Mk.10:17-27) “Go and sell what you have and give to the poor; you will then have treasure in heaven.” “You may for a time have…
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May 23 - Saturday of the 7th Week of Easter
(Acts 28:16-20,30-31; Ps.11:4-5,7; Jn.21:20-25) “I wear these chains solely because I share the hope of Israel.” The hope of Israel indeed wears chains. The…
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May 22 - Friday of the 7th Week of Easter
(Acts 25:13-21; Ps.103:1-2,11-12,19-20; Jn.21:15-19) “When you are older you will stretch out your hands, and another will tie you fast and carry you off…
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May 21 - Thursday of the 7th Week of Easter
(Acts 22:30,23:6-11; Ps.16:1-2,5,7-11; Jn.17:20-26) “I set the Lord ever before me; with Him at my right hand I shall not be disturbed.” Yes, “the Lord…
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May 20 - Wednesday of the 7th Week of Easter
(Acts 20:28-38; Ps.68:29-30,33-36; Jn.17:11-19) “O Father most holy, protect them with the name you have given me.” In our gospel today Jesus prays to the…
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May 19 - Tuesday of the 7th Week of Easter
(Acts 20:17-27; Ps.68:10-11,20-21,33; Jn.17:1-11) “Father, the hour has come! Give glory to your Son that your Son may give glory to you.” A day of departures…
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May 18 - Monday of the 7th Week of Easter
(Acts 19:1-8; Ps.68:2-7,33; Jn.16:29-33) “You will suffer in the world. But take courage! I have overcome the world.” “An hour is coming – has indeed already…
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May 16 - Saturday of the 6th Week of Easter
(Acts 18:23-28; Ps.47:2-3,8-10; Jn.16:23-28) “He went about establishing from the Scriptures that Jesus is the Messiah.” In our gospel today, Jesus again…
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May 15 - Friday of the 6th Week of Easter
(Acts 18:9-18; Ps.47:2-8; Jn.16:20-23) “Go on speaking and do not be silenced, for I am with you.” As Paul continues his missionary journey, his fears are…
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May 13 - Wednesday of the 6th Week of Easter
(Acts 17:15,22-18:1; Ps.148:1-2,11-14,Is.6:3; Jn.16:12-15) “It is He ‘who gives’ to all life and ‘breath’ and everything else.” “His majesty is above earth and…
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May 12 - Tuesday of the 6th Week of Easter
(Acts 16:22-34; Ps.138:1-3,7-8; Jn.16:5-11) “Immediately all the doors flew open and everyone’s chains were pulled loose.” “Your right hand saves me,” David…
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May 11 - Monday of the 6th Week of Easter
(Acts 16:11-15; Ps.149:1-6,9; Jn.15:26-16:4) “You must bear witness.” The Spirit will come and call to your hearts to speak of the name of Jesus and His…
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May 9 - Saturday of the 5th Week of Easter
(Acts 16:1-10; Ps.100:1-3,5; Jn.15:18-21) “I chose you out of the world.” What is the world but heartache and sin; from this the Lord would release us. Jesus…
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May 8 - Friday of the 5th Week of Easter
(Acts 15:22-31; Ps.57:8-12; Jn.15:12-17) “There is no greater love than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.” Do not Judas and Silas fulfill the…
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May 7 - Thursday of the 5th Week of Easter
(Acts 15:7-21; Ps.96:1-3,10; Jn.15:9-11) “We are saved by the favor of the Lord Jesus.” We are told of the Council of Jerusalem, convened to determine if the…
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May 6 - Wednesday of the 5th Week of Easter
(Acts 15:1-6; Ps.122:1-5; Jn.15:1-8) “I am the vine, you are the branches.” And within Him we must remain; nurtured by the Church He has planted we must always…
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May 5 - Tuesday of the 5th Week of Easter
(Acts 14:19-28; Ps.145:10-13,21; Jn.14:27-31) “We must undergo many trials if we are to enter into the reign of God.” “With this instruction” Paul and Barnabas…
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May 4 - Monday of the 5th Week of Easter
(Acts 14:5-18; Ps.115:1-4,15-16; Jn.14:21-26) “May you be blessed by the Lord, who made heaven and earth.” “Anyone who loves me will be true to my word, and my…
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May 2 - Saturday of the 4th Week of Easter
(Acts 13:44-52; Ps.98:1-4; Jn.14:7-14) “I have made you a light to the nations, a means of salvation to the ends of the earth.” In the preaching of Paul today…
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May 1 - Friday of the 4th Week of Easter
(Acts 13:26-33; Ps.2:6-11; Jn.14:1-6) “You are my Son; this day I have begotten you.” This same verse appearing in both our first reading and our psalm is…
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April 30 - Thursday of the 4th Week of Easter
(Acts 13:13-35; Ps.89:2-3,21-22,25,27; Jn.13:16-20) “He who accepts anyone I send accepts me, and in accepting me accepts Him who sent me.” And who is this…
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April 29 - Wednesday of the 4th Week of Easter
(Acts 12:24-13:5; Ps.67:2-6,8; Jn.12:44-50) “Set apart Barnabas and Saul for me, to do the work for which I have called them.” These words came to the Church…
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April 28 - Tuesday of the 4th Week of Easter
(Acts 11:19-26; Ps.87:1-7,117:1; Jn.10:22-30) “Of Zion they shall say: ‘One and all were born in her.’” “I tell of Egypt and Babylon among those that know the…
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April 27 - Monday of the 4th Week of Easter
(Acts 11:1-18; Ps.41:3,42:2-3,43:3-4; Jn.10:1-10 or Jn.10:11-18) “God has granted life-giving repentance even to the Gentiles.” In his vision Peter sees “an…
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April 24 - Friday of the 3rd Week of Easter
(Acts 9:1-20; Ps.117:1-2,Mk.16:15; Jn.6:52-59) “My flesh is real food and my blood real drink.” And “the man who feeds on this bread shall live forever.” The…
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April 23 - Thursday of the 3rd Week of Easter
(Acts 8:26-40; Ps.66:1,8-9,16-17,20; Jn.6:44-51) “No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him.” How evident it is in our first reading that…
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April 22 - Wednesday of the 3rd Week of Easter
(Acts 8:1-8; Ps.66:1-7; Jn.6:35-40) “Let all on earth worship and sing praise to you, sing praise to your name!” And why should there be such exultant joy…
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April 21 - Tuesday of the 3rd Week of Easter
(Acts 7:51-8:1; Ps.31:3-4,6-8,17,21; Jn.6:30-35) “No one who comes to me shall ever be hungry, no one who believes in me shall thirst again.” “I myself am the…
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April 20 - Monday of the 3rd Week of Easter
(Acts 6:8-15; Ps.119:1,23-24,26-27,29-30; Jn.6:22-29) “This is the work of God: have faith in the One whom He sent.” It is this faith that moves Stephen; it is…
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April 18 - Saturday of the 2nd Week of Easter
(Acts 6:1-7; Ps.33:1-2,4-5,18-19,22; Jn.6:16-21) “The eyes of the Lord are upon those who fear Him, upon those who hope for His kindness.” Alleluia. As the…
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April 17 - Friday of the 2nd Week of Easter
(Acts 5:34-42; Ps.27:1,4,13-14; Jn.6:1-15) “I believe that I shall see the bounty of the Lord in the land of the living.” Seeing the vast crowd following Him…
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April 16 - Thursday of the 2nd Week of Easter
(Acts 5:27-33; Ps.34:2,7,9,17-20; Jn.3:31-36) “The One whom God has sent speaks the words of God; He does not ration His gift of the Spirit.” And thus it is…
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April 15 - Wednesday of the 2nd Week of Easter
(Acts 5:17-26; Ps.34:2-9; Jn.3:16-21) “He who acts in truth comes into the light, to make clear that his deeds are done in God.” Jesus is “the light [that]…
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April 14 - Tuesday of the 2nd Week of Easter
(Acts 4:32-37; Ps.93:1-2,5; Jn.3:7-15) “The community of believers were of one heart and one mind.” This oneness is itself of heaven, is itself the sign that…
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April 13 - Monday of the 2nd Week of Easter
(Acts 4:23-31; Ps.2:1-9; Jn.3:1-8) “No one can see the rule of God unless he is begotten from above.” “Princes conspire together against the Lord and against…
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April 11 - Saturday of the Octave of Easter
(Acts 4:13-21; Ps.118:1,14-21; Mk.16:9-15) “Go into the whole world and proclaim the good news to all creation.” How faithfully Peter and John accomplish the…
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April 10 - Friday of the Octave of Easter
(Acts 4:1-12; Ps.118:1-2,4,22-27; Jn.21:1-14) “Jesus is ‘the stone rejected by you the builders which has become the cornerstone.’” What Peter has proclaimed…
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April 9 - Thursday of the Octave of Easter
(Acts 3:11-26; Ps.8:2,5-9; Lk.24:35-48) “In His name, penance for the remission of sins is to be preached to all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.” And so Peter…
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April 8 - Wednesday of the Octave of Easter
(Acts 3:1-10; Ps.105:1-9; Lk.24:13-35) “The Lord is risen! It is true!” And how it is proven this day! The two disciples find their “hearts burning inside” as…
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April 7 - Tuesday of the Octave of Easter
(Acts 2:36-41; Ps.33:4-5,18-20,22; Jn.20:11-18) “Let the whole house of Israel know beyond any doubt that God has made both Lord and Messiah this Jesus whom…
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April 6 - Monday of the Octave of Easter
(Acts 2:14,22-33; Ps.16:1-2,5,7-11; Mt.28:8-15) “You will not abandon my soul to the netherworld, nor will you suffer your faithful one to undergo corruption.”…
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April 1 - Wednesday of Holy Week
(Is.50:4-9; Ps.69:8-10,21-22,31,33-34; Mt.26:14-25) “The Son of Man is departing, as Scripture says of Him.” Of Him in Scripture we read, “Morning after…
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March 31 - Tuesday of Holy Week
(Is.49:1-6; Ps.71:1-6,15,17; Jn.13:21-33,36-38) “I am made glorious in the sight of the Lord, and my God is now my strength!” The Lord is with His servant…
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March 30 - Monday of Holy Week
(Is.42:1-7; Ps.27:1-3,13-14; Jn.12:1-11) “I formed you, and set you as a covenant of the people, a light for the nations.” He has come “to open the eyes of the…
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March 28 - Saturday of the 5th Week of Lent
(Ez.37:21-28; Jer.31:10-13; Jn.11:45-57) “My sanctuary shall be set up among them forever.” Jesus is the fulfillment of God’s promise to “gather [His people]…
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March 27 - Friday of the 5th Week of Lent
(Jer.20:10-13; Ps.18:2-7; Jn.10:31-42) “He has rescued the life of the poor from the power of the wicked.” As Jeremiah’s persecutors surround him on every side…
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March 26 - Thursday of the 5th Week of Lent
(Gn.17:3-9; Ps.105:4-9; Jn.8:51-59) “Before Abraham came to be, I AM.” Abraham is a great man, the blessed patriarch, to whom God made the promise: “I will…
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March 24 - Tuesday of the 5th Week of Lent
(Nm.21:4-9; Ps.102:2-3,16-21; Jn.8:21-30) “From heaven He beheld the earth, to hear the groaning of the prisoners, to release those doomed to die.” As the Lord…
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March 23 - 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…
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March 21 - Saturday of the 4th Week of Lent
(Jer.11:18-20; Ps.7:2-3,9-12; Jn.7:40-53) “Let us destroy the tree in its vigor; let us cut him off from the land of the living, so that his name will be…
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March 20 - Friday of the 4th Week of Lent
(Ws.2:1,12-22; Ps.34:17-21,23; Jn.7:1-2,10,25-30) “He calls blest the destiny of the just and boasts that God is His Father.” And for such He shall be…
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March 18 - Wednesday of the 4th Week of Lent
(Is. 49:8-15; Ps.145:8-9,13-14,17-18; Jn.5:17-30) “Just as the Father possesses life in Himself, so He has granted it to the Son to have life in Himself.” Here…
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March 17 - Tuesday of the 4th Week of Lent
(Ez.47:1-9,12; Ps.46:2-3,5-6,8-9; Jn.5:1-3,5-16) “There is a stream whose runlets gladden the city of God, the holy dwelling of the Most High.” Brothers and…
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March 16 - Monday of the 4th Week of Lent
(Is.65:17-21; Ps.30:2,4-6,11-13; Jn.4:43-54) “You changed my mourning into dancing.” Here in the midst of Lent we find the purpose of all our suffering, the…
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March 14 - Saturday of the 3rd Week of Lent
(Hos.6:1-6; Ps.51:3-4,18-21,Hos.6:6; Lk.18:9-14) “As certain as the dawn is His coming, and His judgment shines forth like the light of day!” It is night…
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March 13 - Friday of the 3rd Week of Lent
(Hos.14:2-10; Ps.81:6-11,14,17; Mk.12:28-34) “Hear, O Israel! The Lord our God is Lord alone!” “There is no other than He,” and so what should we do but “love…
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March 12 - Thursday of the 3rd Week of Lent
(Jer.7:23-28; Ps.95:1-2,6-9; Lk.11:14-23) “They walked in the hardness of their evil hearts and turned their backs, not their faces, to me.” The Lord calls His…
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March 11 - Wednesday of the 3rd Week of Lent
(Dt.4:1,5-9; Ps.147:12-13,15-16,19-20; Mt.5:17-19) “What great nation has statutes and decrees that are as just as this whole law?” “He has proclaimed His word…