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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.

Jan 31, 2025

(Heb.11:1-2,8-19;   Lk.1:68-75;   Mk.4:35-41)

 

“Why are you so terrified?

Why are you lacking in faith?”

 

“Faith is confident assurance concerning what we hope for, and conviction about things we do not see,” our brother Paul would have us know, and realize.  We all hope for something; there is ever something we...


Jan 30, 2025

O teacher and father

of the children in your care,

in whose hands

they were not abandoned

but held in patience

by Christ’s love –

teach us, too,

to have that same patience,

to have that same love

for those the Lord places

in our care,

that anger shall be banished

from our hearts and our minds,

that the wisdom of...


Jan 30, 2025

(Heb.10:32-39;   Ps.37:3-6,23-24,39-40;   Mk.4:26-34)

 

“You need patience to do God’s will

and receive what He has promised.”

 

Brothers and sisters, “we are not among those who draw back and perish, but among those who have faith and live.”  Whatever “great contest[s] of suffering” may be before us or...


Jan 29, 2025

(Heb.10:19-25;   Ps.24:1-6;   Mk.4:21-25)

 

“Since we have a great high priest who is over the house of God,

let us draw near in utter sincerity and absolute confidence.”

 

Let us shine our light without fear, for it is the light of the Lord and cannot be removed.  “Let us hold unswervingly to our profession which...


Jan 28, 2025

(Heb.10:11-18;   Ps.110:1-4;   Mk.4:1-20)

 

“I will put my laws in their hearts

and I will write them on their minds.”

 

He will plant His seed firmly upon “good soil,” and it shall yield fruit abundantly.  Let us be open to receive His word each day.

Today we hear Jesus’ well-known parable of seed sown in four...