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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
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March 10 - 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…
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March 9 - Monday of the 3rd Week of Lent
(2Kgs.5:1-15; Ps.42:2-3,43:3-4; Lk.4:24-30) “There is no God in all the earth, except in Israel.” “There is a prophet in Israel,” brothers and sisters, and…
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March 7 - Saturday of the 2nd Week of Lent
(Mic.7:14-15,18-20; Ps.103:1-4,8-12; Lk.15:1-3,11-32) “While he was still a long way off, his father caught sight of him and was deeply moved.” “He ran out to…
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March 6 - Friday of the 2nd Week of Lent
(Gn.37:3-4,12-13,17-28; Ps.105:5,16-21; Mt.21:33-43,45-46) “They sold Joseph to the Ishmaelites for twenty pieces of silver.” “The stone which the builders…
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March 5 - Thursday of the 2nd Week of Lent
(Jer.17:5-10; Ps.1:1-4,6,40:5; Lk.16:19-31) “He is like a tree planted beside the waters, that stretches out its roots to the stream.” “Blessed is the man who…
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March 4 - 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…
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March 3 - Tuesday of the 2nd Week of Lent
(Is.1:10,16-20; Ps.50:8-9,16-17,21,23; Mt.23:1-12) “To him that goes the right way I will show the salvation of God.” “Put away your misdeeds from before my…
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March 2 - Monday of the 2nd Week of Lent
(Dn.9:4-10; Ps.79:8-9,11,13,103:10; Lk.6:36-38) “Deliver us and pardon our sins for your name’s sake.” It is a cry for forgiveness our psalmist makes to our…
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February 28 - Saturday of the 1st Week of Lent
(Dt.26:16-19; Ps.119:1-2,4-5,7-8; Mt.5:43-48) “You will be a people sacred to the Lord, your God.” The promise made to the Israelites through Moses is also a…
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February 27 - Friday of the 1st Week of Lent
(Ez.18:21-28; Ps.130:1-8; Mt.5:20-26) “Settle with your opponent while on your way to court with him.” We are all on our way to court, brothers and sisters…
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February 26 - Thursday of the 1st Week of Lent
(Est.C:12,14-16,23-25; Ps.138:1-3,7-8; Mt.7:7-12) “My Lord, our King, you alone are God. Help me, who am alone and have no help but you.” In our gospel we have…
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February 25 - Wednesday of the 1st Week of Lent
(Jon.3:1-10; Ps.51:3-4,12-13,18-19; Lk.11:29-32) “At the preaching of Jonah they reformed.” Let us learn from the people of Ninevah, who heeded the message of…
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February 24 - Tuesday of the 1st Week of Lent
(Is.55:10-11; Ps.34:4-7,16-19; Mt.6:7-15) “Give us today our daily bread.” Our daily bread comes from the mouth of God; it is His Word that nourishes us. His…
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February 23 - Monday of the 1st Week of Lent
(Lv.19:1-2,11-18; Ps.19:8-10,15,Jn.6:63; Mt.25:31-46) “As often as you did it for one of my least brothers, you did it for me.” “You shall love your neighbor…
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February 21 - Saturday after Ash Wednesday
(Is.58:9-14; Ps.86:1-6,11; Lk.5:27-32) “Repairer of the breach,” they shall call you, “restorer of ruined homesteads.” “Levi gave a great reception for Jesus…
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February 20 - Friday after Ash Wednesday
(Is.58:1-9; Ps.51:3-6,18-19; Mt.9:14-15) “Would that today you might fast so as to make your voice heard on high!” Brothers and sisters, in this day of fasting…
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February 19 - Thursday after Ash Wednesday
(Dt.30:15-20; Ps.1:1-4,6,39:5; Lk.9:22-25) “The Lord watches over the way of the just, but the way of the wicked vanishes.” In our first reading, Moses makes…
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February 17 - 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…
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February 16 - 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…
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February 14 - 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…
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February 13 - 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…
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February 12 - 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…
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February 11 - 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…
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February 10 - 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…
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February 9 - 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…
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February 7 - 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…
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February 6 - Friday of the 4th Week in Ordinary Time, Year II
(Sir.47:2-11; Ps.18:31,47,50-51; Mk.6:14-29) “Herod feared John, knowing him to be an upright and holy man.” O how the Lord has given power to His great men…
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February 5 - 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…
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February 4 - 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…
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February 3 - 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…
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January 31 - 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…
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January 30 - 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…
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January 29 - Thursday of the 3rd Week in Ordinary Time, Year II
(2Sm.7:18-19,24-29; Ps.132:1-2,3-5,11-14,Lk.1:32; Mk.4:21-25) “If your sons keep my covenant and the decrees which I shall teach them, their sons, too, forever…
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January 28 - 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…
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January 27 - 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…
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January 26 - 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…
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January 24 - 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…
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January 23 - 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…
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January 22 - 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…
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January 21 - 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.”…
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January 20 - 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…
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January 19 - 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…
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January 17 - 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…
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January 16 - Friday of the 1st Week in Ordinary Time, Year II
(1Sm.8:4-7,10-22; Ps.89:2,16-19; Mk.2:1-12) “We have never seen anything like this!” What the Lord can do, no one else is able to do – no king, no prophet, no…
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January 15 - Thursday of the 1st Week in Ordinary Time, Year II
(1Sm.4:1-11; Ps.44:10-11,14-15,24-25,27; Mk.1:40-45) “Our souls are bowed down to the dust; our bodies are pressed to the earth.” The Israelites suffer “a…
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January 14 - Wednesday of the 1st Week in Ordinary Time, Year II
(1Sm.3:1-10,19-20; Ps.40:2-5,7-10; Mk.1:29-39) “To do your will, O Lord, is my delight.” O how Samuel shows the “ears open to obedience” we all must have. For…
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January 13 - Tuesday of the 1st Week in Ordinary Time, Year II
(1Sm.1:9-20; 1Sm.2:1,4-8; Mk.1:21-28) “May the God of Israel grant you what you have asked of Him.” For He holds all authority. “He gives orders to unclean…
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January 12 - Monday of the 1st Week in Ordinary Time, Year II
(1Sm.1:1-8; Ps.116:12-19; Mk.1:14-20) “Hannah was childless.” And so she would “weep and refuse to eat,” for it was “a constant reproach to her that the Lord…
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January 10 - Saturday after Epiphany
(1Jn.5:14-21; Ps.149:1-6,9; Jn.3:22-30) “The Son of God has come and has given us discernment to recognize the One who is true.” John’s disciples had…
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January 9 - Friday after Epiphany
(1Jn.5:5-13; Ps.147:12-15,19-20; Lk.5:12-16) “Whoever possesses the Son possesses life.” What does our psalmist mean when he sings: “He has granted peace in…
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January 8 - Thursday after Epiphany
(1Jn.4:19-5:4; Ps.72:1-2,11,14-15,17; Lk.4:14-22) “Today this Scripture passage is fulfilled in your hearing.” Today the Son has come into our midst. Today He…
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January 7 - Wednesday after Epiphany
(1Jn.4:11-18; Ps.72:1-2,10,12-13; Mk.6:45-52) “If we love one another, God dwells in us, and His love is brought to perfection in us.” Jesus has just fed the…
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January 6 - Tuesday after Epiphany
(1Jn.4:7-10, Ps.72:1-4,7-8,11; Mk.6:34-44) “Justice shall flower in His days, and profound peace, till the moon be no more.” Our psalm (of Solomon, the king of…
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January 5 - Monday after Epiphany
(1Jn.3:22-4:6; Ps.2:7-8,10-11; Mt.4:12-17,23-25) “Every spirit that acknowledges Jesus Christ come in the flesh belongs to God.” And for every spirit that…
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January 3 - before Epiphany
(1Jn.2:29-3:6; Ps.98:1,3-6; Jn.1:29-34) “Look there! The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!” “This is God’s chosen One.” This is He upon whom…
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January 2 - before Epiphany
(1Jn.2:22-28; Ps.98:1-4; Jn.1:19-28) “Remain in the Son and in the Father.” In our gospel John the Baptist tells the priests and Levites sent by the Pharisees…
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December 31 - Seventh Day of the Octave of Christmas
(1Jn.2:18-21; Ps.96:1-2,11-13; Jn.1:1-18) “The Word became flesh and made His dwelling among us.” And we must dwell with Him, remaining in His light, walking…
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December 30 - Sixth Day of the Octave of Christmas
(1Jn.2:12-17; Ps.96:7-11; Lk.2:36-40) “The world with its seductions is passing away but the man who does God’s will endures forever.” Upon what is your eye…
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December 29 - Fifth Day of the Octave of Christmas
(1Jn.2:3-11; Ps.96:1-3,5-6,11; Lk.2:22-35) “The way we can be sure we are in union with Him is if one who claims to abide in Him conducts himself just as He…
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December 24 - Second Part of Advent
(2Sm.7:1-5,8-12,14,16; Ps.89:2-5,27,29; Lk.1:67-79) “Your house and your kingdom will endure forever.” The Lord builds a house for us; He is that House…