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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 27, 2023

(Nm.21:4-9;   Ps.102:2-3,16-21;   Jn.8:21-30)

 

“From heaven He beheld the earth,

to hear the groaning of the prisoners,

to release those doomed to die.”

 

As the Lord has said to the Pharisees: “You belong to what is below; I belong to what is above.”  And truly, how could we come to where He is unless He...


Mar 25, 2023

(Ez.37:12-14;   Ps.130:1-8;   Rom.8:8-11;   Jn.11:1-45)

 

“I am the resurrection and the life;

whoever believes in me, even if he dies, will live,

and everyone who lives and believes in me will never die.”

 

“You shall know that I am the Lord, when I open your graves and have you rise from them, O my people!” says...


Mar 18, 2023

(1Sm.16:1b,6-7,10-13a;   Ps.23:1-6;   Eph.5:8-14;   Jn.9:1-41)

 

“I am the light of the world.”

 

And by that light alone we see.  By this light which comes from God we who were born blind, who were born into sin, have our eyes opened.  And so having escaped the darkness we “live as children of light.”

When David...


Mar 11, 2023

(Ex.17:3-7;   Ps.95:1-2,6-9;   Rom.5:1-2,5-8;   Jn.4:5-42)

 

“Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again;

but whoever drinks the water I shall give will never thirst.”

 

What is this “spring of water welling up to eternal life” but the Holy Spirit come upon us, the Truth of God in our midst through the...


Mar 4, 2023

(Gn.12:1-4a;   Ps.33:4-5,18-20,22;   2Tm.1:8b-10;   Mt.17:1-9)

 

“Rise, and do not be afraid.”

 

Here in the midst of the darkness we drink in during this Lenten Season comes a light shining to assure our hearts of the promise that is ours.  The Lord’s Transfiguration is presented to us this day to lead us through...