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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.

Dec 15, 2022

(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 Him.

None is excluded in the House of God; His holy Temple is a place where all take refuge, where all find fulfillment, where all find joy.  He...


Dec 14, 2022

(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 did not bear,” the “wife married in youth and then cast off” by our God.  Once “forsaken and grieved in spirit,” blushing for the “shame of...


Dec 13, 2022

(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.  “There is no other!”

“Justice shall walk before Him, and salvation, along the way of His steps.”  How evident this is in Jesus’ life, for...


Nov 25, 2022

(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 Him.  They shall eat of “the trees of life which produce fruit twelve times a year,” which grow either side of “the river of life-giving water,...


Nov 5, 2022

(2Mac.7:1-2,9-14;   Ps.17:1,5-6,8,15;   2Thes.2:16-3:5;   Lk.20:27-38)

 

“On waking I shall be content in your presence.”

 

Our hope is in the resurrection, brothers and sisters.  It is this which gives us strength, and it is our endurance which brings us to His presence.

Brothers and sisters, indeed, as Paul...