The BreadCast

Sep 07 2024 146
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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.

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September 8 - Prayer on the Birth of Mary

Sep 07 2024 1 mins  
O Virgin who bore the Son of God, who became the divine dwelling place for the Creator of us all, should we not celebrate your birth this day, the blessing of the generation of you who signal our salvation? Pray for us, dear Mother, pray for all your children, all who would call themselves sons of God and brothers of our Lord Jesus Christ... pray that all generations will call you

September 8 - Sunday of the 23rd Week in Ordinary Time, Year B

Sep 06 2024 6 mins  
(Is.35:4-7a; Ps.146:2,6-10; Jas.2:1-5; Mk.7:31-37) “He makes the deaf hear and the mute speak.” The Lord makes all whole. He “sets captives free” from all their afflictions as He redeems us from all our sin. “Here is your God, He comes with vindication; with divine recompense He comes to save you.” This is He who “has done all things well”; this is the Lord Jesus Ch

September 7 - Saturday of the 22nd Week in Ordinary Time, Year II

Sep 06 2024 5 mins  
(1Cor.4:9-15; Ps.145:17-21; Lk.6:1-5) “God has put us apostles at the end of the line, like men doomed to die in the arena.” “Up to this very hour we go hungry and thirsty, poorly clad, roughly treated, wandering about homeless,” the great Apostle Paul tells us of the persecution and slander all the Lord’s apostles must undergo. And yet “when we are insulted we respond

September 6 - Friday of the 22nd Week in Ordinary Time, Year II

Sep 05 2024 5 mins  
(1Cor.4:1-5; Ps.37:3-6,27-28,39-40; Lk.5:33-39) “The salvation of the just is from the Lord.” “For the Lord loves what is right, and forsakes not His faithful ones.” And so He comes. He comes bearing a new garment; He comes with the blood of a New Covenant, His own blood, to wash us clean and make us whole as He is. Drinking this new wine indeed we are made holy. It is not

September 5 - Prayer to St. Teresa of Calcutta

Sep 04 2024 1 mins  
O lover of the poor and of the unborn, in whom you saw the face of Christ, by whom you held Him close to your heart and so comforted His thirst for souls – pray for us who are so blind to the presence of Christ in the least among us or even in those beside us. Pray, dear Mother, that we will hear their cry, which is Jesus’ cry from the Cross, and that we shall not fear the dark

September 5 - Thursday of the 22nd Week in Ordinary Time, Year II

Sep 04 2024 5 mins  
(1Cor.3:18-23; Ps.24:1-6; Lk.5:1-11) “Amazement at the catch they had made seized him and all his shipmates.” What a truly remarkable scene! Here upon the call of the apostles, the first of apostles, Simon Peter, “fell at the knees of Jesus.” Here in his barque, boats once desolate now suddenly fill to bursting with fish flopping about everywhere, unable to be contained…

September 4 - Wednesday of the 22nd Week in Ordinary Time, Year II

Sep 03 2024 5 mins  
(1Cor.3:1-9; Ps.33:12-15,20-21; Lk.4:38-44) “To other towns I must announce the Good News of the reign of God, because that is why I was sent.” “And He continued to preach in the synagogues of Judea.” And He continues to preach to all hearts through His blessed apostles, and His Church continues to grow. To the ends of the earth the kingdom progresses, and we each have a ha

September 3 - Prayer to St. Gregory the Great

Sep 02 2024 1 mins  
O great Shepherd, watchman of the House of God and protector of His flock, though in the monastery you would have stayed, when called to the Chair of Peter you guided the Church well through difficult times – pray that as difficult days continue a firm hand may continue to be found at the helm of MotherChurch. O pray that the faith be strengthened, that the Rock upon which this H

September 3 - Tuesday of the 22nd Week in Ordinary Time, Year II

Sep 02 2024 4 mins  
(1Cor.2:10-16; Ps.145:8-14,17; Lk.4:31-37) “We have the mind of Christ.” The demon has been cast from us and we see the Lord as He is: “Good to all and compassionate toward all His works.” “The glorious splendor of [His] kingdom” is before our eyes, and it is this which gives us light. We have bowed ourselves down before Him, the demon has thrown us “to the ground bef

September 2 - Monday of the 22nd Week in Ordinary Time, Year II

Sep 01 2024 5 mins  
(1Cor.2:1-5; Ps.119:97-102; Lk.4:16-30) “Your faith rests not on the wisdom of men but on the power of God.” Paul comes to the Corinthians with preaching that has “none of the persuasive force of ‘wise’ argumentation, but the convincing power of the Spirit,” and with them he determines to “speak of nothing but Jesus Christ and Him crucified.” Similarly, when “Jesu