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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 26, 2020

(Jer.13:1-11;   Dt.32:18-21;   Mt.13:31-35)

“You were unmindful of the Rock that begot you.

You forgot the God who gave you birth.”

So Moses says of the people he led through the desert.  So Jeremiah is told of the Lord’s chosen at the time of the Babylonian exile.  So it is with those who are deaf to Jesus’...


Jul 25, 2020

 (1Kgs.3:5,7-12;   Ps.119:57,72,76-77,97,127-130;   Rm.8:28-30;   Mt.13:44-52)

 

“The revelation of your words sheds light,

giving understanding to the simple.”

 

Wisdom.  The “pearl of great price.”  How precious the ability “to distinguish right from wrong” by the grace of God, and to choose the right way at...


Jul 23, 2020

(Jer.3:14-17;   Jer.31:10-13;   Mt.13:18-23) 

“At that time they will call Jerusalem the Lord’s throne;

there all nations will be gathered together

to honor the name of the Lord at Jerusalem.”

I would like today to focus the attention particularly of the Lord’s chosen race on the following prophecy of the great...


Jul 18, 2020

 (Ws.12:13,16-19;   Ps.86:5-6,9-10,15-16;   Rom.8:26-27;   Mt.13:24-43)

 

“First collect the weeds and tie them in bundles for burning;

but gather the wheat into my barn.”

 

Such are the Lord’s instructions to the harvesters, His angels that come “at the end of the age,” when “just as weeds are collected and...


Jul 11, 2020

 (Is.55:10-11;   Ps.65:10-14,Lk.8:8;   Rom.8:18-23;   Mt.13:1-23)

 

“The seed sown on rich soil

is the one who hears the word and understands it,

who indeed bears fruit.”

 

Comes the Word of God.  To our eyes, to our ears.  A seed sown within our hearts.  May it find rich soil in which to grow, that we might know...