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The BreadCast

Daily Exposition of the Readings for Catholic Mass...

as well as Prayers to the Saints on the General Roman Calendar (for the U.S.).  

From the books Our Daily Bread and Prayers to the Saints by James H. Kurt - both with imprimatur.

Mar 17, 2024

(Dn.13:1-9,15-17,19-30,33-62;   Ps.23:1-6;   Jn.8:1-11)

 

“Let the man among you who has no sin

be the first to cast a stone at her.”

 

“Then the audience drifted away one by one, beginning with the elders.”  And no one was left to accuse her.

In both our gospel and our first reading a woman is accused of...


Mar 15, 2024

(Jer.11:18-20;   Ps.7:2-3,9-12;   Jn.7:40-53)

 

“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.”

 

With these words “they were hatching plots against” Jeremiah, and in the same way against Jesus.  And so, “like a trusting Lamb led to...


Mar 14, 2024

(Ws.2:1,12-22;   Ps.34:17-21,23;   Jn.7:1-2,10,25-30)

 

“He calls blest the destiny of the just

and boasts that God is His Father.”

 

And for such He shall be persecuted; for such He shall be killed.  For to the wicked “He is the censure of [their] thoughts; merely to see Him is a hardship” for those who stray from...


Mar 13, 2024

(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.  As Moses wrote, so Jesus is.  The eternal life to which the Scriptures testify is now in our midst.  The Word has come to life; the Law is now...


Mar 12, 2024

(Is. 49:8-15;   Ps.145:8-9,13-14,17-18;   Jn.5:17-30)

 

“Just as the Father possesses life in Himself,

so He has granted it to the Son to have life in Himself.”

 

Here the great mystery of the unity of Father and Son is revealed, and so also our salvation.

God is life.  The Father is the great I AM, He who will be...