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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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June 14 - Friday of the 10th Week in Ordinary Time, Year II
(1Kgs.19:9,11-16; Ps.27:7-9,13-14; Mt.5:27-32) “Of you my heart speaks; you my glance seeks.” “Your presence, O Lord, I seek. Hide not your face from me,”…
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May 25 - Saturday of the 7th Week in Ordinary Time, Year II
(Jas.5:13-20; Ps.141:1-3,8; Mk.10:13-16) “Let my prayer come like incense before you; the lifting up of my hands, like the evening sacrifice.” “The fervent…
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May 24 - Friday of the 7th Week in Ordinary Time, Year II
(Jas.5:9-12; Ps.103:1-4,8-9,11-12; Mk.10:1-12) “Merciful and gracious is the Lord, slow to anger and abounding in kindness.” And we must be like Him. James…
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May 23 - Thursday of the 7th Week in Ordinary Time, Year II
(Jas.5:1-6; Ps.49:14-20,Mt.5:3; Mk.9:41-50) “You lived in wanton luxury on the earth; you fattened yourselves for the day of slaughter.” “You rich, weep and…
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May 22 - Wednesday of the 7th Week in Ordinary Time, Year II
(Jas. 4:13-17; Ps.49:2-3,6-11,Mt.5:3; Mk.9:38-40) “Anyone who is not against us is with us.” And whoever is not with the Lord is against Him. There are only…
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May 21 - Tuesday of the 7th Week In Ordinary Time, Year II
(Jas.4:1-10; Ps.55:7-11,23; Mk.9:30-37) “In the city I see violence and strife; day and night they prowl about upon its walls.” The violence this world holds…
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May 20 - Monday of the 7th Week in Ordinary Time, Year II
(Jas.3:13-18; Ps.19:8-10,15; Mk.9:14-29) “The command of the Lord is clear, enlightening the eye.” What is the wisdom of which James speaks in our first…
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January 29 - Monday of the 4th Week in Ordinary Time, Year II
(2Sm.15:13-14,30,16:5-13; Ps.3:2-7; Mk.5:1-20) “Many are saying of me, ‘There is no salvation for him in God.’” Today David’s sins rise to his neck, and he is…
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January 6 - before Epiphany
(1Jn.5:5-13; Ps.147:12-15,19-20; Mk.1:7-11) “God gave us eternal life, and this life is in His Son.” How reassuring John is to us who believe – “I have written…
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January 5 - before Epiphany
(1Jn.3:11-21; Ps.100:1-5; Jn.1:43-51) “We should love one another.” In our gospel, “first [Jesus] came upon Philip” – whose name means “love” – and invited him…
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December 11 - Monday of the 2nd Week of Advent
(Is.35:1-10; Ps.85:9-14,Is.35:4; Lk.5:17-26) “A highway will be there, called the holy way.” Jesus is the highway; holy is He! He is the stream that “will…
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November 4 - Saturday of the 30th Week in Ordinary Time, Year I
(Rm.11:1-2,11-12,25-29; Ps.94:12-15,17-18; Lk.14:1,7-11) “The Lord will not cast off His people, nor abandon His inheritance.” Today the gifts and call of the…
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October 31 - Tuesday of the 30th Week in Ordinary Time, Year I
(Rm.8:18-25; Ps.126:1-6; Lk.13:18-21) “Hoping for what we cannot see means awaiting it with patient endurance.” We cannot see the coming of the kingdom of…
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October 21 - Saturday of the 28th Week in Ordinary Time, Year I
(Rm.4:13,16-18; Ps.105:6-9,42-43; Lk.12:8-12) “All depends on faith, everything is a grace.” Faith is our father; it brings us to life for it makes us children…
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October 3 - Tuesday of the 26th Week in Ordinary Time, Year I
(Zec.8:20-23; Ps.87:1-7,Zec.8:23; Lk.9:51-56) “Let us go with you, for we have heard that God is with you.” God is with us, brothers and sisters. And though…
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October 2 - Monday of the 26th Week in Ordinary Time, Year I
(Zec.8:1-8; Ps.102:16-23,29; Lk.9:46-50) “The city shall be filled with boys and girls playing in her streets.” “Even if this should seem impossible in the…
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September 11 - Monday of the 23rd Week in Ordinary Time, Year I
(Col.1:24-2:3; Ps.62:6-7,9; Lk.6:6-11) “We admonish all men and teach them in the full measure of wisdom, hoping to make every man complete in Christ.” It is…
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August 9 - Wednesday of the 18th Week in Ordinary Time, Year I
(Nm.13:1-2,25-14:1,26-29,34-35; Ps.106:4,6-7,13-14,21-23; Mt.15:21-28) “They forgot the God who had saved them.” But He did not forget them. Though He curses…
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July 28 - Friday of the 16th Week in Ordinary Time, Year I
(Ex.20:1-17; Ps.19:8-11,Jn.6:69; Mt.13:18-23) “What was sown on good soil is the man who hears the message and takes it in.” “The law of the Lord is perfect…
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July 6 - Thursday of the 13th Week in Ordinary Time, Year I
(Gn.22:1-19; Ps.115:1-6,8-9; Mt.9:1-8) “God put Abraham to the test.” And so is his faith in the living God made known. And so we see to what faith and…
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June 30 - Friday of the 12th Week in Ordinary Time, Year I
(Gn.17:1,9-10,15-22; Ps.128:1-5; Mt.8:1-4) “Can Sarah give birth at ninety?” Abraham laughs to himself as he asks the question; and indeed many scoff at the…
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June 27 - Tuesday of the 12th Week in Ordinary Time, Year I
(Gn.13:2,5-18; Ps.15:1-5; Mt.7:6,12-14;) “How narrow is the gate that leads to life, how rough the road, and how few there are who find it!” In our first…
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June 10 - Saturday of the 9th Week in Ordinary Time, Year I
(Tb.12:1,5-15,20; Tb.13:1-2,6; Mk.12:38-44) “Almsgiving saves one from death.” We must give alms, yes; and the greatest of alms is the gift of ourselves to…
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June 9 - Friday of the 9th Week in Ordinary Time, Year I
(Tb.11:5-15; Ps.146:2,7-10; Mk.12:35-37) “The Lord gives sight to the blind.” Now in His teaching Jesus truly begins to open the eyes of the people. We have…
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June 8 - Thursday of the 9th Week in Ordinary Time, Year I
(Tb.6:11,7:1,9-14,8:4-7; Ps.128:1-5; Mk.12:28-34) “Love the Lord your God” and “Love your neighbor as yourself.” On these two great commandments rest all the…
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June 7 - Wednesday of the 9th Week in Ordinary Time, Year I
(Tb.3:1-11,16-17; Ps.25:1-9; Mk.12:18-27) “He is the God of the living, not of the dead.” Rich readings. First of all, we see the striking similarity between…
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June 6 - Tuesday of the 9th Week in Ordinary Time, Year I
(Tb.2:9-14; Ps.112:1-2,7-9; Mk.12:13-17) “The heart of the just man is secure, trusting in the Lord.” Today in our reading and gospel we find just men put to…
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June 5 - Monday of the 9th Week in Ordinary Time, Year I
(Tb.1:1-2,2:1-9; Ps.112:1-6; Mk.12:1-12) “The stone rejected by the builders has become the keystone of the structure.” First, Tobit is not a parable; it is…
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June 3 - Saturday of the 8th Week in Ordinary Time, Year I
(Sir.51:12-20; Ps.19:8-11; Mk.11:27-33) “When I was young and innocent, I sought wisdom. She came to me in her beauty, and until the end I will cultivate her.”…
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June 2 - Friday of the 8th Week in Ordinary Time, Year I
(Sir.44:1,9-13; Ps.149:1-6,9; Mk.11:11-26) “They are as though they had not lived, they and their children after them.” This line from Sirach could refer well…
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June 1 - Thursday of the 8th Week in Ordinary Time, Year I
(Sir.42:15-25; Ps.33:2-9; Mk.10:46-52) “As the rising sun is clear to all, so the glory of the Lord fills all His works.” “How beautiful are all His works!…
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February 18 - Saturday of the 6th Week in Ordinary Time, Year I
(Heb.11:1-7; Ps.145:2-5,10-11; Mk.9:2-13) “Rabbi, how good it is for us to be here.” In yesterday’s gospel Jesus promised, “Among those standing here there are…
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January 21 - Saturday of the 2nd Week in Ordinary Time, Year I
(Heb.9:2-3,11-14; Ps.47:2-3,6-9; Mk.3:20-21) “Behind the second veil was the tabernacle call the holy of holies.” To this holy of holies in the temple of…
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January 7 - before Epiphany
(1Jn.5:14-21; Ps.149:1-6,9; Jn.2:1-12) “He hears us whenever we ask for anything according to His will.” In our gospel, the waiters come to Mary; their…
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December 16 - Friday of the 3rd Week of Advent
(Is.56:1-3,6-8; Ps.67:2-3,5,7-8; Jn.5:33-36) “My house shall be called a house of prayer for all peoples.” The Truth has come, and all nations are drawn to…
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December 15 - Thursday of the 3rd Week of Advent
(Is.54:1-10; Ps.30:2,4-6,11-13; Lk.7:24-30) “For a brief moment I abandoned you, but with great tenderness I will take you back.” We are “the barren one who…
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December 14 - Wednesday of the 3rd Week of Advent
(Is.45:6-8,18,21-25; Ps.85:9-14,Is.45:8; Lk.7:18-23) “There is no just and saving God but me.” Jesus is “He who is to come”; His deeds speak for themselves…
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November 26 - Saturday of the 34th Week in Ordinary Time, Year II
(Rv.22:1-7; Ps.95:1-7,Rv.21:20; Lk.21:34-36) “Remember, I am coming soon!” And when He comes what blessings there shall be for those who have been faithful to…
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November 5 - Saturday of the 31st Week in Ordinary Time, Year II
(Phil.4:10-19; Ps.112:1-2,5-6,8-9; Lk.16:9-15) “Well for the man who is gracious and lends.” “Lavishly he gives to the poor; his generosity shall endure…
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October 29 - Saturday of the 30th Week in Ordinary Time, Year II
(Phil.1:18-26; Ps.42:2-3,5; Lk.14:1,7-11) “When you are invited by someone to a wedding party, do not sit in the place of honor in case some greater dignitary…
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February 18 - Friday of the 6th Week in Ordinary Time, Year II
(Jas.2:14-24,26; Ps.112:1-6; Mk.8:34-9:1) “Faith without works is as dead as a body without breath.” How dead indeed is a body without breath; how short a time…
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February 17 - Thursday of the 6th Week in Ordinary Time, Year II
(Jas.2:1-9; Ps.34:2-7; Mk.8:27-33) “You are not judging by God’s standards but by man’s!” This is a most important statement Jesus makes; it really cuts to the…
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February 16 - Wednesday of the 6th Week in Ordinary Time, Year II
(Jas.1:19-27; Ps.15:1-5; Mk.8:22-26) “Jesus laid hands on his eyes, and he saw perfectly.” What is it to see perfectly but to be as “the man who peers into…
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May 26 - Wednesday of the 8th Week in Ordinary Time, Year I
(Sir.36:1,5-6,10-17; Ps.79:8-9,11,13; Mk.10:32-35) “Take pity on your holy city, Jerusalem, your dwelling place.” The prayer of the wise man is good, but I see…
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July 23 - Tuesday of the 16th Week in Ordinary Time, Year I
(Ex.14:21-15:1; Ex.15:1,8-10,12,17; Mt.12:46-50) “Thus the Lord saved Israel on that day from the power of the Egyptians.” The Lord fought for the Israelites…
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August 7 - Monday of the 18th Week in Ordinary Time, Year I A
(Nm.11:4-15; Ps.81:2,12-17; Mt.14:22-36) “How little faith you have!” It is the Lord’s exclamation to His holy apostles, to the foundation of His Church – to…
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March 20 - Saturday of the 4th Week in Ordinary Time, Year I
"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 spoken no more."