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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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August 13 - Wednesday of the 19th Week in Ordinary Time, Year I
(Dt.34:1-12; Ps.66:1-3,5,8,16-17,20; Mt.18:15-20) "This is the land which I swore to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob that I would give to their descendants." The…
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August 12 - Tuesday of the 19th Week in Ordinary Time, Year I
(Dt.31:1-8; Dt.32:3-4,7-9,12; Mt.18:1-5,10,12-14) "It is the Lord who marches before you; He will be with you and never fail or forsake you." "Do not fear or…
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August 11 - Monday of the 19th Week in Ordinary Time, Year I
Dt.10:12-22; Ps.147:12-15,19-20; Mt.17:22-27) "In His love for your fathers the Lord was so attached to them as to choose you, their descendants, in preference…
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August 10 - Sunday of the 19th Week in Ordinary Time, Year C
(Ws.18:6-9; Ps.33:1,12.18-20,22; Heb.11:1-2,8-19; Lk.12:32-48) "You also must be prepared, for at an hour you do not expect, the Son of Man will come." "Our…
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August 9 - Saturday of the 18th Week in Ordinary Time, Year I
(Dt.6:4-13; Ps.18:2-4,47,51; Mt.17:14-20) "Praised be the Lord, I exclaim, and I am safe from my enemies." In our first reading we hear the Shema, the great…
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August 8 - Friday of the 18th Week in Ordinary Time, Year I
(Dt.4:32-40; Ps.77:12-16,21; Mt.16:24-28) "The Son of Man will come with His Father's glory accompanied by His angels." The Lord God came to "take a nation for…
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August 7 - Thursday of the 18th Week in Ordinary Time, Year I
(Nm.20:1-13; Ps.95:1-2,6-9; Mt.16:13-23) "'You are the Messiah,' Simon Peter answered, 'the Son of the Living God!'" With this response, because of this faith…
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August 5 - Tuesday of the 18th Week in Ordinary Time, Year I C
(Nm.12:1-13; Ps.51:3-7,12-13; Mt.14:22-36) "The presence of the Lord he beholds." Throughout the history of salvation, the Lord chooses one man to lead His…
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August 4 - Monday of the 18th Week in Ordinary Time, Year I B & C
(Nm.11:4-15; Ps.81:2,12-17; Mt.14:13-21) "Israel I would feed with the best of wheat." But the best of wheat they despise, and seek to satiate their appetite…
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August 3 - Sunday of the 18th Week in Ordinary Time, Year C
(Ec.1:2,2:21-23; Ps.90:3-6,12-14,17,95:7-8; Col.3:1-5,9-11; Lk.12:13-21) "If you were raised with Christ, seek what is above, where Christ is seated at the…
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August 2 - Saturday of the 17th Week in Ordinary Time, Year I
(Lv.25:1,8-17; Ps.67:2-5,7-8; Mt.14:1-12) "It is really the number of crops he sells you." The earth is the Lord's; it is not our own. And it is only by His…
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August 1 - Friday of the 17th Week in Ordinary Time, Year I
(Lv.23:1,4-11,15-16,27,34-37; Ps.81:2-6,10-11; Mt.13:54-58) "Offer as an oblation to the Lord holocausts and cereal offerings, sacrifices and libations, as…
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July 31 - Thursday of the 17th Week in Ordinary Time, Year I
(Ex.40:16-21,34-38; Ps.84:2-6,8,11; Mt.13:47-53) "The cloud covered the meeting tent, and the glory of the Lord filled the Dwelling." The Dwelling is the…
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July 30 - Wednesday of the 17th Week in Ordinary Time, Year I
(Ex.34:29-35; Ps.99:5-7,9; Mt.13:44-46) "The skin of his face had become radiant while he conversed with the Lord." His face shining like the pearl of great…
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July 29 - Tuesday of the 17th Week in Ordinary Time, Year I
(Ex.33:7-11,34:5-9,28; Ps.103:6-13; Mt.13:36-43) "The angels will hurl them into the fiery furnace where they will wail and grind their teeth." It is the…
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July 28 - Monday of the 17th Week in Ordinary Time, Year I
(Ex.32:15-24,30-34; Ps.106:1,19-23; Mt.13:31-35) "Eventually the whole mass of dough began to rise." The kingdom of God comes gradually, grows imperceptibly…
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July 27 - Sunday of the 17th Week in Ordinary Time, Year C
(Gn.18:20-32; Ps.138:1-3,6-8; Col.2:12-14; Lk.11:1-13) "Ask and you will receive; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you." Prayer…
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July 26 - Saturday of the 16th Week in Ordinary Time, Year I
(Ex.24:3-8; Ps.50:1-2,5-6,14-15; Mt.13:24-30) "All that the Lord has said, we will heed and do." But will they? Who among them will remain faithful to the…
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July 24 - Thursday of the 16th Week in Ordinary Time, Year I
(Ex.19:1-2,9-11,16-20; Dn.3:52-56; Mt.13:10-17) "Blest are your eyes because they see and blest are your ears because they hear." Jesus tells us today, "Many a…
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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 20 - Sunday of the 16th Week in Ordinary Time, Year C
(Gn.18:1-10a; Ps.15:1-5; Col.1:24-28; Lk.10:38-42) "There is need of only one thing." Whether we teach or whether we serve, all must be done in the Name of the…
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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 13 - Sunday of the 15th Week in Ordinary Time, Year C
(Dt.30:10-14; Ps.69:14,17,30-31,33-34,36-37 or 19:8-11; Col.1:15-20; Lk.10:25-37) "He lifted him up on his own animal, took him to an inn, and cared for him."…
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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 6 - Sunday of the 14th Week in Ordinary Time, Year C
(Is.66:10-14c; Ps.66:1-7,16,20; Gal.6:14-18; Lk.10:1-12,17-20) "The Lord's power shall be known to His servants." Paul states: "May I never boast except in the…
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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 27 - Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, Year C
(Ez.34:11-16; Ps.23:1-6; Rm.5:5-11; Lk.15:3-7) "I have found my lost sheep." "We have found reconciliation" through the blood of Jesus Christ. So the Apostle…
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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 22 - The Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ, Year C
(Gn.14:18-20; Ps.110:1-4; 1Cor.11:23-26; Lk.9:11b-17) "The Lord Jesus, on the night He was handed over, took bread, and, after He had given thanks, broke it…
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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 15 - Most Holy Trinity Sunday, Year C
(Prv.8:22-31; Ps.8:2,4-9; Rm.5:1-5; Jn.16:12-15) "Everything that the Father has is mine." From the beginning Jesus is with the Father, one with the Father…
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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…