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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
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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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July 14 - Monday of the 15th Week in Ordinary Time, Year I
(Ex.1:8-14,22; Ps.124:1-8; Mt.10:34-11:1) “The more they were oppressed, the more they multiplied and spread.” The Israelites lived and worked side by side…
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July 12 - Saturday of the 14th Week in Ordinary Time, Year I
(Gn.49:29-32,50:15-24; Ps.105:1-4,6-7,33; Mt.10:24-33) “Whoever acknowledges me before men I will acknowledge before my Father in heaven.” Joseph does well in…
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July 11 - Friday of the 14th Week in Ordinary Time, Year I
(Gn.46:1-7,28-30; Ps.37:3-4,18-19,27-28,39-40; Mt.10:16-23) “Do not be afraid to go down to Egypt, for there I will make you a great nation.” We are as exiles…
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July 10 - Thursday of the 14th Week in Ordinary Time, Year I
(Gn.44:18-21,23-29,45:1-5; Ps.105:5,16-21; Mt.10:7-15) “It was really for the sake of saving lives that God sent me here ahead of you.” Remarkable words from…
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July 9 - Wednesday of the 14th Week in Ordinary Time, Year I
(Gn.41:55-57,42:5-7,17-24; Ps.33:2-3,10-11,18-19,22; Mt.10:1-7) “The eyes of the Lord are upon those who fear Him.” In our gospel, Jesus commissions the twelve…
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July 8 - Tuesday of the 14th Week in Ordinary Time, Year I
(Gn.32:23-33; Ps.17:1-3,6-8,15; Mt.9:32-38) “You test my heart, searching it in the night.” “You have contended with divine and human beings,” the angel says…
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July 7 - Monday of the 14th Week in Ordinary Time, Year I
(Gn.28:10-22; Ps.91:1-4,14-15; Mt.9:18-26) “Know that I am with you; I will protect you wherever you go.” What the Lord says here to Jacob, He says indeed to…
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July 5 - Saturday of the 13th Week in Ordinary Time, Year I
(Gn.27:1-5,15-29; Ps.135:1-6; Mt.9:14-17) “Pour new wine into new wineskins, and in that way both are preserved.” “Jacob.” The name means “the supplanter”…
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July 4 - Friday of the 13th Week in Ordinary Time, Year I
(Gn.23:1-4,19,24:1-8,62-67; Ps.106:1-5; Mt.9:9-13) “In his love for [Rebekah] Isaac found solace after the death of his mother Sarah.” And of this love Jacob…
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July 2 - Wednesday of the 13th Week in Ordinary Time, Year I
(Gn.21:5,8-20; Ps.34:7-8,10-13; Mt.8:28-34) “When the afflicted man called out, the Lord heard, and from all his distress He saved him.” Ishmael is the model…
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July 1 - Tuesday of the 13th Week in Ordinary Time, Year I
(Gn.19:15-29; Ps.26:2-3,9-12; Mt.8:23-27) “Even the winds and the sea obey Him.” “The Lord rained down sulphurous fire upon Sodom and Gomorrah,” and “without…
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June 30 - Monday of the 13th Week in Ordinary Time, Year I
(Gn.18:16-33; Ps.103:1-4,8-11; Mt.8:18-22) “While the two men walked on farther toward Sodom, the Lord remained standing before Abraham.” “Then Abraham drew…
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June 28 - Saturday of the 12th Week in Ordinary Time, Year I
(Gn.18:1-15; Lk.1:46-50,53-55; Mt.8:5-17) “Is anything too marvelous for the Lord to do?” Our theme again is faith. Do we believe as Abraham, as Mary, as the…
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June 26 - Thursday of the 12th Week in Ordinary Time, Year I
(Gn.16:1-12,15-16; Ps.106:1-5; Mt.7:21-29) “Anyone who hears my words but does not put them into practice is like the foolish man who built his house on sandy…
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June 25 - Wednesday of the 12th Week in Ordinary Time, Year I
(Gn.15:1-12,17-18; Ps.105:1-4,6-9; Mt.7:15-20) “Abram put his faith in the Lord, who credited it to him as an act of righteousness.” In our gospel today, Jesus…
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June 23 - Monday of the 12th Week in Ordinary Time, Year I
(Gn.12:1-9; Ps.33:12-13,18-20,22; Mt.7:1-5) “The eyes of the Lord are upon those who fear Him.” There is a plank in our own eye; there is but a speck in our…
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June 21 - Saturday of the 11th Week in Ordinary Time, Year I
(2Cor.12:1-10; Ps.34:8-13; Mt.6:24-34) “Seek first His kingship over you, His way of holiness, and all these things will be given you besides.” The call to…
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June 20 - Friday of the 11th Week in Ordinary Time, Year I
(2Cor.11:18,21-30; Ps.34:2-7,18; Mt.6:19-23) “Store up heavenly treasure, which neither moths nor rust corrode nor thieves break in and steal.” It is clear…
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June 19 - Thursday of the 11th Week in Ordinary Time, Year I
(2Cor.11:1-11; Ps.111:1-4,7-8; Mt.6:7-15) “Your Father knows what you need before you ask Him.” And what we need is to be holy as He is holy. And it is this we…
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June 18 - Wednesday of the 11th Week in Ordinary Time, Year I
(2Cor.9:6-11; Ps.112:1-4,9; Mt.6:1-6,16-18) “Keep your deeds of mercy secret, and your Father who sees in secret will repay you.” In the ground, hidden and…
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June 17 - Tuesday of the 11th Week in Ordinary Time, Year I
(2Cor.8:1-9; Ps.146:2,5-9; Mt.5:43-48) “Love your enemies, pray for your persecutors.” Our psalm today begins with praise of God and the proclamation of the…
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June 16 - Monday of the 11th Week in Ordinary Time, Year I
(2Cor.6:1-10; Ps.98:1-4; Mt.5:38-42) “When a person strikes you on the right cheek, turn and offer him the other.” “Now is the acceptable time! Now is the day…
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June 14 - Saturday of the 10th Week in Ordinary Time, Year I
(2Cor.5:14-21; Ps.103:1-4,8-9,11-12; Mt.5:33-37) “The love of Christ impels us who have reached the conviction that since one died for all, all died.” How…
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June 13 - Friday of the 10th Week in Ordinary Time, Year I
(2Cor.4:7-15; Ps.116:10-11,15-18; Mt.5:27-32) “While we live we are constantly being delivered to death for Jesus’ sake, so that the life of Jesus may be…
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June 12 - Thursday of the 10th Week in Ordinary Time, Year I
(2Cor.3:15-4:1,3-6; Ps.85:9-14; Mt.5:20-26) “See the splendor of the gospel showing forth the glory of Christ.” Today the gospel is preached: Jesus, the image…
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June 11 - Wednesday of the 10th Week in Ordinary Time, Year I
(2Cor.3:4-11; Ps.99:5-9; Mt.5:17-19) “Not the smallest letter of the law, not the smallest part of a letter, shall be done away with until it all comes true.”…
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June 10 - Tuesday of the 10th Week in Ordinary Time, Year I
(2Cor.1:18-22; Ps.119:129-133,135; Mt.5:13-16) “God is the one who firmly establishes us.” “Light of the world” and “salt of the earth” – this is what we are…
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June 9 - Monday of the 10th Week in Ordinary Time, Year I
(2Cor.1:1-7; Ps.34:2-9; Mt.5:1-12) “Blessed are those persecuted for holiness’ sake; the reign of God is theirs.” Here is the core teaching of our faith. Here…
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May 10 - Saturday of the 3rd Week of Easter
(Acts 9:31-42; Ps.116:12-17; Jn.6:60-69) “We have come to believe.” Yes, Peter professes for the Twelve (except Judas, of course), “We are convinced that you…
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April 9 - Wednesday of the 5th Week of Lent
(Dn.3:14-20,91-92,95; Dn.3:52-56; Jn.8:31-42) “The truth will set you free.” Sin binds. Like the cords with which “the strongest men in [Nebuchadnezzar’s] army…
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April 3 - Thursday of the 4th Week of Lent
(Ex.32:7-14; Ps.106:4,19-23; Jn.5:31-47) “If you believed Moses you would then believe me, for it was about me that he wrote.” As Moses wrote, so Jesus speaks…
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March 4 - Tuesday of the 8th Week in Ordinary Time, Year I
(Sir.35:1-12; Ps.50:5-8,14,23; Mk.10:28-31) “The just man’s sacrifice is most pleasing, nor will it ever be forgotten.” Peter is moved today to voice his fear…
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March 3 - Monday of the 8th Week in Ordinary Time, Year I
(Sir.17:19-27; Ps.32:1-2,5-7,11; Mk.10:17-27) “Jesus fixed His gaze on them and said, ‘For man it is impossible but not for God.’” With these incisive words…
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March 1 - Saturday of the 7th Week in Ordinary Time, Year I
(Sir.17:1-15; Ps.103:13-18; Mk.10:13-16) “Let the children come to me and do not hinder them.” O how the Lord “looks with favor upon [our] hearts, and shows…
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February 28 - Friday of the 7th Week in Ordinary Time, Year I
(Sir.6:5-17; Ps.119:12,16,18,27,34-35; Mk.10:1-12) “They are no longer two but one flesh.” How much more clearly could the Lord speak of the unity found in…
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February 27 - Thursday of the 7th Week in Ordinary Time, Year I
(Sir.5:1-8; Ps.1:1-4,6,40:50; Mk.9:41-50) “Mercy and anger are alike with Him; upon the wicked alights His wrath.” “The way of the wicked vanishes.” It must…
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February 26 - Wednesday of the 7th Week in Ordinary Time, Year I
(Sir.4:11-19; Ps.119:165,168,171-172,174-175; Mk.9:38-40) “Those who serve her serve the Holy One; those who love her the Lord loves.” Such is wisdom, she who…
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February 25 - Tuesday of the 7th Week in Ordinary Time, Year I
(Sir.2:1-11; Ps.37:3-5,18-19,27-28,39-40; Mk.9:30-37) “My son, when you come to serve the Lord, prepare yourself for trials.” Is Jesus not “teaching His…
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February 24 - Monday of the 7th Week in Ordinary Time, Year I
(Sir.1:1-10; Ps.93:1-2,5; Mk.9:14-29) “There is but one, wise and truly awe-inspiring, seated upon His throne: It is the Lord.” “The Lord is King, in splendor…
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February 21 - Friday of the 6th Week in Ordinary Time, Year I
(Gn.11:1-9; Ps.33:10-15; Mk.8:34-9:1) “What profit does a man show who gains the whole world and destroys himself in the process?” Listen to what the men of…
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February 20 - Thursday of the 6th Week in Ordinary Time, Year I
(Gn.9:1-13; Ps.102:16-23,29; Mk.8:27-33) “The children of your servants shall abide, and their posterity shall continue in your presence.” In our first reading…
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February 19 - Wednesday of the 6th Week in Ordinary Time, Year I
(Gn.8:6-13,20-22; Ps.116:12-15,17-19; Mk.8:22-26) “Noah then removed the covering of the ark and saw that the surface of the ground was drying up.” A return to…
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February 18 - Tuesday of the 6th Week in Ordinary Time, Year I
(Gn.6:5-8,7:1-5,10; Ps.29:1-4,9-11; Mk.8:14-21) “The voice of the Lord is over the waters, the Lord, over vast waters.” “Mighty” indeed is the voice of God…
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February 17 - Monday of the 6th Week in Ordinary Time, Year I
(Gn.4:1-15,25; Ps.50:1,8,14,16-17,20-21; Mk.8:11-13) “Sin is a demon lurking at the door: his urge is toward you, yet you can be his master.” Thus does the…
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February 15 - Saturday of the 5th Week in Ordinary Time, Year I
(Gn.3:9-24; Ps.90:1-6,12-13; Mk.8:1-10) “You are dust, and to dust you shall return.” Because of the fall we come face-to-face with this truth: our own…
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February 14 - Friday of the 5th Week in Ordinary Time, Year I
(Gn.3:1-8; Ps.32:1-2,5-7; Mk.7:31-37) “The eyes of both of them were opened, and they realized that they were naked.” How different this opening of the eyes of…
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February 13 - Thursday of the 5th Week in Ordinary Time, Year I
(Gn.2:18-25; Ps.128:1-5; Mk.7:24-30) “A man leaves his father and mother and clings to his wife, and the two of them become one body.” And Jesus leaves His…
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February 12 - Wednesday of the 5th Week in Ordinary Time, Year I
(Gn.2:4-9,15-17; Ps.104:1-2,27-30; Mk.7:14-23) “The Lord God formed man out of the clay of the ground and blew into his nostrils the breath of life, and so man…
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February 11 - Tuesday of the 5th Week in Ordinary Time, Year I
(Gn.1:20-2:4; Ps.8:2,4-9; Mk.7:1-13) “God created man in His image; in the divine image He created him.” At God’s word “the water teem[s] with an abundance of…
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February 10 - Monday of the 5th Week in Ordinary Time, Year I
(Gn.1:1-19; Ps.104:1-2,5-6,10,12,24,31,35; Mk.6:53-56) “How manifold are your works, O Lord! In wisdom you have wrought them all.” It is the Lord who “fixed…
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February 8 - Saturday of the 4th Week in Ordinary Time, Year I
(Heb.13:15-17,20-21; Ps.23:1-6; Mk.6:30-34) “The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.” All things are cared for by the Lord; our work and our rest are in His…
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February 7 - Friday of the 4th Week in Ordinary Time, Year I
(Heb.13:1-8; Ps.27:1,3,5,8-9; Mk.6:14-29) “I will never desert you, nor will I forsake you.” A series of parallels we have today between our first reading and…
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February 6 - Thursday of the 4th Week in Ordinary Time, Year I
(Heb.12:18-19,21-24; Ps.48:2-4,9-11; Mk.6:7-13) “You have drawn near to MountZion and the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem…” “…to the assembly of…