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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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February 5 - Wednesday of the 4th Week in Ordinary Time, Year I
(Heb.12:4-7,11-15; Ps.103:1-2,13-14,17-18; Mk.6:1-6) “Whom the Lord loves, He disciplines; He scourges every son He receives.” Like His only Son we must be…
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February 4 - Tuesday of the 4th Week in Ordinary Time, Year I
(Heb.12:1-4; Ps.22:26-28,30-32; Mk.5:21-43) “Let us keep our eyes fixed on Jesus, who inspires and perfects our faith.” Like the woman in our gospel who saw…
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February 3 - Monday of the 4th Week in Ordinary Time, Year I
(Heb.11:32-40; Ps.31:20-25; Mk.5:1-20) “They broke the jaws of lions, put out raging fires, escaped the devouring sword…” In each of these descriptions of the…
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February 1 - Saturday of the 3rd Week in Ordinary Time, Year I
(Heb.11:1-2,8-19; Lk.1:68-75; Mk.4:35-41) “Why are you so terrified? Why are you lacking in faith?” “Faith is confident assurance concerning what we hope for…
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January 31 - Friday of the 3rd Week in Ordinary Time, Year I
(Heb.10:32-39; Ps.37:3-6,23-24,39-40; Mk.4:26-34) “You need patience to do God’s will and receive what He has promised.” Brothers and sisters, “we are not…
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January 30 - Thursday of the 3rd Week in Ordinary Time, Year I
(Heb.10:19-25; Ps.24:1-6; Mk.4:21-25) “Since we have a great high priest who is over the house of God, let us draw near in utter sincerity and absolute…
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January 29 - Wednesday of the 3rd Week in Ordinary Time, Year I
(Heb.10:11-18; Ps.110:1-4; Mk.4:1-20) “I will put my laws in their hearts and I will write them on their minds.” He will plant His seed firmly upon “good…
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January 28 - Tuesday of the 3rd Week in Ordinary Time, Year I
(Heb.10:1-10; Ps.40:2,4,7-11; Mk.3:31-35) “I have come to do your will, O God.” But what is this will of God? How do we know it? How shall we live it? The will…
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January 27 - Monday of the 3rd Week in Ordinary Time, Year I
(Heb.9:15,24-28; Ps.98:1-6; Mk.3:22-30) “His death has taken place for deliverance from transgressions.” By his death Jesus has disarmed the devil; the Lord…
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January 24 - Friday of the 2nd Week in Ordinary Time, Year I
(Heb.8:6-13; Ps.85:8,10-14; Mk.3:13-19) “I will be their God and they shall be my people.” “Near indeed is His salvation to those who fear Him, glory dwelling…
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January 23 - Thursday of the 2nd Week in Ordinary Time, Year I
(Heb.7:25-8:6; Ps.40:7-10,17; Mk.3:7-12) “Jesus is always able to save those who approach God through Him, since He forever lives to make intercession for…
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January 22 - Wednesday of the 2nd Week in Ordinary Time, Year I
(Heb.7:1-3,15-17; Ps.110:1-4; Mk.3:1-6) “Without father, mother, or ancestry, without beginning of days or end of life, like the Son of God he remains a priest…
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January 21 - Tuesday of the 2nd Week in Ordinary Time, Year I
(Heb.6:10-20; Ps.111:1-2,4-5,9-10; Mk.2:23-28) “I will indeed bless you, and multiply you.” God promised to bless Abraham, to make his descendants numerous as…
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January 20 - Monday of the 2nd Week in Ordinary Time, Year I
(Heb.5:1-10; Ps.110:1-4; Mk.2:18-22) “You are a priest forever, according to the order of Melchizedek.” Without beginning or end is the holy priesthood of our…
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January 18 - Saturday of the 1st Week in Ordinary Time, Year I
(Heb.4:12-16; Ps.19:8-10,15,Jn.6:63; Mk.2:13-17) “Nothing is concealed from Him.” In God’s eyes all men are sinners; this is what His penetrating vision cannot…
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January 17 - Friday of the 1st Week in Ordinary Time, Year I
(Heb.4:1-5,11; Ps.78:3-4,6-8; Mk.2:1-12) “The promise of entrance into His rest still holds.” But only those with faith in Him shall be made whole. Paul says…
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January 16 - Thursday of the 1st Week in Ordinary Time, Year I
(Heb.3:7-14; Ps.95:6-11; Mk.1:40-45) “Today, if you should hear His voice, harden not your hearts.” Today we see Jesus continuing His healing ministry, and we…
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January 15 - Wednesday of the 1st Week in Ordinary Time, Year I
(Heb.2:14-18; Ps.105:1-4,6-9; Mk.1:29-39) “Since He Himself was tested through what He suffered, He is able to help those who are tempted.” And help them He…
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January 14 - Tuesday of the 1st Week in Ordinary Time, Year I
(Heb.2:5-12; Ps.8:2,5-9; Mk.1:21-28) “A completely new teaching in a spirit of authority!” Thus do the people exclaim at the power of the word which issues…
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January 13 - Monday of the 1st Week in Ordinary Time, Year I
(Heb.1:1-6; Ps.97:1-2,6-7,9; Mk.1:14-20) “This is the time of fulfillment.” Brothers and sisters, no longer does God speak to us “in fragmentary and varied…
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January 4 - before Epiphany
(1Jn.3:7-10; Ps.98:1,3,7-9; Jn.1:35-42) “When Jesus turned around and noticed them following Him, He asked them, ‘What are you looking for?’” Brothers and…
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December 21 - Second Part of Advent
(Sgs.2:8-14 or Zep.3:14-18; Ps.33:1-3,11-12,20-21; Lk.1:39-45) “Let me see you, let me hear your voice, for your voice is sweet, and you are lovely.” “Who am I…
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December 13 - Friday of the 2nd Week of Advent
(Is.48:17-19; Ps.1:1-4,6,Jn.8:12; Mt.11:16-19) “Time will prove where wisdom lies.” No doubt it lies with God. It lies with the Son of Man, come for our…
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November 29 - Friday of the 34th Week in Ordinary Time, Year II
(Rv.20:1-4,11-21:2; Ps.84:3-6,8,Rv.21:3; Lk.21:29-33) “The heavens and the earth will pass away, but my words will not pass.” Indeed John tells us of his…
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November 28 - Thursday of the 34th Week in Ordinary Time, Year II
(Rv.18:1-2,21-23,19:1-3,9; Ps.100:2-5; Lk.21:20-28) “These indeed will be days of retribution, when all that is written must be fulfilled.” The destruction of…
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November 27 - Wednesday of the 34th Week in Ordinary Time, Year II
(Rv.15:1-4; Ps.98:1-3,7-9,Rv.15:13; Lk.21:12-19) “By patient endurance you will save your lives.” Jesus tells His disciples bluntly: “People will manhandle and…
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November 26 - Tuesday of the 34th Week in Ordinary Time, Year II
(Rv.14:14-19; Ps.96:10-13; Lk.21:5-11) “Use your sickle and cut down the harvest, for now is the time to reap.” Brothers and sisters, you will “hear of wars…
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November 25 - Monday of the 34th Week in Ordinary Time, Year II
(Rv.14:1-5; Ps.24:1-6; Lk.21:1-4) “They are pure and follow the Lamb wherever He goes.” Here is answered most definitively the question David sings: “Who can…
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November 23 - Saturday of the 33rd Week in Ordinary Time, Year II
(Rv.11:4-12; Ps.144:1,2,9-10; Lk.20:27-40) “After three and a half days, the breath of life which comes from God returned to them.” And these his two witnesses…
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November 22 - Friday of the 33rd Week in Ordinary Time, Year II
(Rv.10:8-11; Ps.119:14,24,72,103,111,131; Lk.19:45-48) “I gasp with open mouth in my yearning for your commands.” In our first reading, John is told to “take…
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November 21 - Thursday of the 33rd Week in Ordinary Time, Year II
(Rv.5:1-10; Ps.149:1-6,9,Rv.5:10; Lk.19:41-44) “Do not weep. The Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has won the right by His victory to open the…
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November 20 - Wednesday of the 33rd Week in Ordinary Time, Year II
(Rv.4:1-11; Ps.150:1-6,Rv.4:8; Lk.19:11-28) “O Lord our God, you are worthy to receive glory and honor and power.” “A man of noble birth went to a faraway…
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November 19 - Tuesday of the 33rd Week in Ordinary Time, Year II
(Rv.3:1-6,14-22; Ps.15:2-5,Rv.3:21; Lk.19:1-10) “Today salvation has come to this house.” To two of His houses, two of His seven churches, does the Lord speak…
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November 18 - Monday of the 33rd Week in Ordinary Time, Year II
(Rv.1:1-4,2:1-5; Ps.1:1-4,6,Rv.2:7; Lk.18:35-43) “Jesus of Nazareth was passing by.” A blind man sat begging by the side of the road. “Hearing a crowd go by…
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November 16 - Saturday of the 32nd Week in Ordinary Time, Year II
(3Jn.5-8; Ps.112:1-6; Lk.18:1-8) “When the Son of Man comes, will He find any faith on the earth?” So beset by weakness are we on this earth, brothers and…
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November 15 - Friday of the 32nd Week in Ordinary Time, Year II
(2Jn.4-9; Ps.119:1-2,10-11,17-18; Lk.17:26-37) “Anyone who remains rooted in the teaching possesses both the Father and the Son.” While “anyone who is so…
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November 14 - Thursday of the 32nd Week in Ordinary Time, Year II
(Philm.7-20; Ps.146:7-10; Lk.17:20-25) “The reign of God is already in your midst.” Brothers and sisters, Jesus the Christ has come, He has “suffer[ed] much…
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November 13 - Wednesday of the 32nd Week in Ordinary Time, Year II
(Ti.3:1-7; Ps.23:1-6; Lk.17:11-19) “Jesus, Master, have pity on us!” Such is the cry of the ten lepers standing at a distance from the Lord. And such is the…
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November 12 - Tuesday of the 32nd Week in Ordinary Time, Year II
(Ti.2:1-8,11-14; Ps.37:3-4,18,23,27,29,39; Lk.17:7-10) “Live temperately, justly, and devoutly in this age.” Brothers and sisters, be “eager to do what is…
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November 11 - Monday of the 32nd Week in Ordinary Time, Year II
(Ti.1:1-9; Ps.24:1-6; Lk.17:1-6) “Who can ascend the mountain of the Lord? Or who may stand in His holy place?” “He whose hands are sinless, whose heart is…
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November 8 - Friday of the 31st Week in Ordinary Time, Year II
(Phil.3:17-4:1; Ps.122:1-5; Lk.16:1-8) “We have our citizenship in heaven.” Brothers and sisters, we are not among “those who are set upon the things of this…
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November 7 - Thursday of the 31st Week in Ordinary Time, Year II
(Phil.3:3-8; Ps.105:2-7; Lk.15:1-10) “I have come to rate all as loss in the light of the surpassing knowledge of my Lord Jesus Christ.” Paul tells us, “Those…
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November 6 - Wednesday of the 31st Week in Ordinary Time, Year II
(Phil.2:12-18; Ps.27:1,4,13-14; Lk.14:25-33) “Work with anxious concern to achieve your salvation.” Strive we must always to attain the kingdom of God, setting…
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November 5 - Tuesday of the 31st Week in Ordinary Time, Year II
(Phil.2:5-11; Ps.22:26-32; Lk.14:15-24) “The lowly shall eat their fill.” Yes, “happy is he who eats bread in the kingdom of God.” Indeed, he shall have his…
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November 4 - Monday of the 31st Week in Ordinary Time, Year II
(Phil.2:1-4; Ps.131:1-3; Lk.14:12-14) “Let all parties think humbly of others as superior to themselves, each of you looking to others’ interests rather than…
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October 30 - Wednesday of the 30th Week in Ordinary Time, Year II
(Eph.6:1-9; Ps.145:10-14; Lk.13:22-30) “Do God’s will with your whole heart as slaves of Christ.” These words Paul addresses to the slaves of his time…
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October 1 - Tuesday of the 26th Week in Ordinary Time, Year II
(Job 3:1-3,11-17,20-23; Ps.88:2-8; Lk.9:51-56) “My soul is surfeited with troubles and my life draws near to the netherworld.” After sitting in silence seven…
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September 23 - Monday of the 25th Week in Ordinary Time, Year II
(Prv.3:27-34; Ps.15:1-5; Lk.8:16-18) “The curse of the Lord is on the house of the wicked, but the dwelling of the just He blesses.” Light fills the house of…
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September 10 - Tuesday of the 23rd Week in Ordinary Time, Year II
(1Cor.6:1-11; Ps.149:1-6,9; Lk.6:12-19) “You have been washed, consecrated, justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.” Yes…
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August 26 - Monday of the 21st Week in Ordinary Time, Year II
(2Thes.1:1-5,11-12; Ps.96:1-5; Mt.23:13-22) “Which is more important, the offering or the altar which makes the offering sacred?” The Pharisees in their…
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August 17 - Saturday of the 19th Week in Ordinary Time, Year II
(Ez.18:1-10,13,30-32; Ps.51:12-15,18-19; Mt.19:13-15) “Cast away from you all the crimes you have committed, and make for yourselves a new heart and a new…
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August 12 - Monday of the 19th Week in Ordinary Time, Year II
(Ez.1:2-5,24-28; Ps.148:1-2,11-14; Mt.17:22-27) “His majesty is above earth and heaven.” Gleaming like gold or silver, shining forth like burning fire…
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August 8 - Thursday of the 18th Week in Ordinary Time, Year II
(Jer.31:31-34; Ps.51:12-15,18-19; Mt.16:13-23) “I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah.” Do not the days come to pass, is…
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August 6 - Tuesday of the 18th Week in Ordinary Time, Year II B and C
(Jer.30:1-2,12-15,18-22; Ps.102:16-23,29; Mt.14:22-36) “His assembly before me shall stand firm.” The words of the prophet Jeremiah are fulfilled in the…
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August 5 - Monday of the 18th Week in Ordinary Time, Year II B & C
(Jer.28:1-17; Ps.119:29,43,68,79-80,95,102; Mt.14:13-21) “Take not the word of truth from my mouth, for in your ordinances is my hope.” The word of truth is…
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July 27 - Saturday of the 16th Week in Ordinary Time, Year II
(Jer.7:1-11; Ps.84:2-6,8,11; Mt.13:24-30) “Reform your ways and your deeds, so that I may remain with you in this place.” We hear again today of the failure of…
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July 24 - Wednesday of the 16th Week in Ordinary Time, Year II
(Jer.1:1,4-10; Ps.71:1-6,15,17; Mt.13:1-9) “O God, you have taught me from my youth, and till the present I proclaim your wondrous deeds.” So does the seed…
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July 5 - Friday of the 13th Week in Ordinary Time, Year II
(Amos 8:4-6,9-12; Ps.119:2,10,20,30,40,131,Mt.4:46; Mt.9:9-13) “Many tax collectors and those known as sinners came to join Jesus and His disciples at dinner.”…
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July 1 - Monday of the 13th Week in Ordinary Time, Year II
(Amos 2:6-10,13-16; Ps.50:16-23; Mt.8:18-22) “Consider this, you who forget God, lest I rend you and there be no one to rescue you.” What we should realize…
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June 26 - Wednesday of the 12th Week in Ordinary Time, Year II
(2Kgs.22:8-13,23:1-3; Ps.119:33-37,40; Mt.7:15-20) “Lead me in the path of your commands, for in it I take delight.” The people of Judah and Jerusalem have…