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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.

Jul 8, 2025

O righteous band of martyrs

united by faith in Christ and His Church

in a nation of religious oppression:

children and grandparents,

workers and teachers,

lay and ordained,

native and foreign-born…

all as one you gave your lives,

led by your convictions –

pray the Word of the Lord

come to a land so cold


Jul 8, 2025

(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 apostles to go forth after “the lost sheep of the house of Israel” in order “to expel unclean spirits and cure sickness and disease of every...


Jul 7, 2025

(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 of Jacob; and so he receives his new name, Israel: “he strives with God”.  Such striving with the Lord in this night which has set upon the...


Jul 6, 2025

(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 all of us:  He will protect us on our journey; let us but take refuge in Him.  Our dearest Jesus is the abode of God, and in Him our souls are safe.


Jul 5, 2025

O perpetual virgin

who defended your purity

even with your life

and so earned the crown

of martyrdom

at a tender age…

O bride of Christ

who prayed even for your murderer

and so served to inspire

his conversion –

pray for us, too, dear child;

pray the lust and violence

so prevalent in this world of sin,

and in our own...