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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 26, 2024

(Is.50:4-9;   Ps.69:8-10,21-22,31,33-34;   Mt.26:14-25)

 

“The Son of Man is departing, as Scripture says of Him.”

 

Of Him in Scripture we read, “Morning after morning He opens my ear that I may hear; and I have not rebelled, have not turned back.”  Even as death approaches, even as His betrayer goes forth...


Mar 25, 2024

(Is.49:1-6;   Ps.71:1-6,15,17;   Jn.13:21-33,36-38)

 

“I am made glorious in the sight of the Lord,

and my God is now my strength!”

 

The Lord is with His servant, with Israel, with Jesus, the Son of David, the Son of Man, the Son of God: “From my mother’s womb you are my strength…  O God, you have taught...


Mar 24, 2024

(Is.42:1-7;   Ps.27:1-3,13-14;   Jn.12:1-11)

 

“I formed you, and set you as a covenant of the people,

a light for the nations.”

 

He has come “to open the eyes of the blind, to bring out prisoners from confinement, and from the dungeon, those who dwell in darkness.”  “He establishes justice on...


Mar 22, 2024

(Ez.37:21-28;   Jer.31:10-13;   Jn.11:45-57)

 

“My sanctuary shall be set up among them forever.”

 

Jesus is the fulfillment of God’s promise to “gather [His people] from all sides to bring them back to their land”; He is the “one prince for [us] all” by whom God makes complete the “everlasting...


Mar 21, 2024

(Jer.20:10-13;   Ps.18:2-7;   Jn.10:31-42)

 

“He has rescued the life of the poor

from the power of the wicked.”

 

As Jeremiah’s persecutors surround him on every side but are “put to utter shame” when he calls out to the Lord, so as the Jews “again tried to arrest Him,” Jesus again “eluded their...